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'Nature' - performed by The Fourmyula (Close Up)

2010 6m Television
  • Music
  • News/Current Affairs

"Through falling leaves I pick my way slowly..." In 1970, a musical paean to getting your nature buzz topped the charts. 'Nature' by The Fourmyula, became a Kiwi classic: in 2001 an APRA poll voted it the best local song of the past 75 years. This 2010 Close Up report, from Auckland's Monte Cristo Room, sees presenter Mark Sainsbury introduce the band's second ever performance of 'Nature' in Aotearoa (the band were overseas when it topped the charts). He quizzes composer Wayne Mason, and drummer Chris Parry recalls encountering The Clash while working in the English music scene.