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Every January 28th

I just finished reading Darren Hayes autobiography 'Unlovable' today, where he states in the book that his ex-wife looked like the woman on the Duran Duran 'Rio' album cover, with her ice green eyes and dark purple hair.

Unlovable: A memoir from
the voice of Savage Garden

Rio

Funny thing is that as soon as I had read Darren state that in the book I went and saw '28 Years later: The Bone Temple' and lo and behold the crazy doctor pulls the record out of his collection and starts dancing and singing to 'Rio' off that album and other Duran Duran songs.

After watching '28 Years later: The Bone Temple' I found it ironic that Darren writes in the book that his first boyfriend was named Jimmy:-)

I even saw '28 Years later: The Bone Temple' on a ScreenX cinema in the Logan Hyperdome, a shopping center that Darren mentions in the book as a complex with a very 90s name and a place that he probably wouldn't be able to walk through again when he became famous, without being mobbed by fans.

I even bought the book from the QBD bookstore in the Logan Hyperdome last year, when I was buying luggage for my American trip.

Darren Hayes on the bruising truth
behind his Savage Garden stardom

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At that time Darren writes about in the book, he and Daniel Jones were writing songs just up the road from the Hyperdome at Daniel's place.

10 Ballan Court, Cornubia

Unlovable: A memoir from
the voice of Savage Garden

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Looks like Rose may even become even more famous this year?

With Rose playing a metaphorically drowning mother, I find it ironic that Darren Hayes childhood street in Logan City is named Lake Road.

Lake Road, Slacks Creek, Logan City, Qld, Australia

It's a small world, that's for sure, as I told a co-worker that I was going to take a drive down Darren Hayes childhood road on the way home and they told me with a look of astonishment that is the road they live on:-)

I even pulled into the Argonaut corner shops to see what was there now, as my nieghbour from my childhood street in Brisbane used to work for many years at the newsagent that used to be there, but is now a takeaway restaurant that appears to be closed now.

When I first moved out of home with my then girlfriend and now ex-wife, we rented a unit behind the fire station up the road for about a year, before moving back over the other side of the freeway.

Darren writes in the book about walking from his old place to these shops and even doing the walk when he visits the street now in his adult years.

I only bought the book because my mother always thought that Darren was the guy who helped her in the McDonald and East menswear department at Garden City when mum was buying my father clothes.

I had never heard of him working there and I often told her that she must be confused with someone else maybe named Darren.

I didn't read the book until my mother passed away on Buzz Aldrin's birthday this year, but it seems from what I read mum was wrong in the end, but she didn't know that when she was alive.

I might see if mum's best friend wants to read the book, as she was the one who used to work at the Argonaut corner shops.

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