Paul Kelly (Australian musician)

Paul Maurice Kelly is an Australian rock music singersongwriter, guitarist, and harmonica player. He has performed solo, and has led numerous groups, including the Dots, the Coloured Girls, and the Messengers. He has worked with other artists and groups, including associated projects Professor Ratbaggy and Stardust Five. Kellys music style has ranged from bluegrass to studiooriented dub reggae, but his core output straddles folk, rock, and country. His lyrics capture the vastness of the culture and landscape of Australia by chronicling life about him for overyears. David Fricke from Rolling Stone calls Kelly one of the finest songwriters I have ever heard, Australian or otherwise. Kelly has said, Song writing is mysterious to me. I still feel like a total beginner. I dont feel like I have got it nailed yet.

Paul Maurice Kelly was born onJanuary 1955 in Adelaide, to John Erwin Kelly, a lawyer, and Josephine , the sixth of eight surviving children. According to Rip It Up magazine, legend has it that Kellys mother gave birth to him in a taxi outside North Adelaides Calvary Hospital. In the lyrics for his Comedy album track, Its All Downhill from Here Kelly wrote103

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