Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - BONUS: Jono Performs For 90's Icon Peter Andre

Episode Date: December 25, 2022

Remember when Jono performed for Peter Andre... sadly we do as well!   EnjoySee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Hits with the Jono and Ben podcast. We're looking for the best song ever and Mysterious Girl, this great jam from Peter Andre, bundled out of the competition. One of our favourite songs gone from the competition in round one, so we're on a mission to get it back in. Involving Jono today, putting on a performance shirtless, like Peter Andre in the video, in his jeans, for the whole office. And just before the show this morning we came in to rehearse to do some practice ahead of the performance and I had a wee surprise for Jono over FaceTime, it was Peter Andre

himself joining us, Peter Andre I am fantastic it's good morning for you guys but it's night here it's nearly 11 at night because you've just at the moment you're in the middle of performing the musical Grease. So you've just finished that for another night.

Have you heading home? Yeah, so we just finished that. And yeah, heading home now. So it kind of finishes about 10, 10, 15. And now, obviously, with the sad news of Olivia Newton-John passing, we're dedicating the show every night to her. So we do a little tribute thing at the end. And it's really emotional. You don realize how loved she she really was now you you meet her a couple

of times i understand yes i met i met her uh in australia in 90 1992 i think it wasn't we were doing a spina bifida concert it was to raise money for spina bifida and she was so lovely and then years later i was in los angeles recording with a guy called Steve Kipner and apparently Steve Kipner wrote physical for her and he said look she lives down the road she's one of my good friends he goes I'll tell her you're here and she came down and sat in the studio for an hour with me and just just sat there and just talked to us she was beautiful she was such a nice lady such a nice lady that's love all you all you're hearing is lovely things about her yeah i mean and i can understand that because

you know when they say you know when they say things like i don't ever meet your idols or don't ever meet people in the industry because you can get really disappointed but when you occasionally meet someone and they're exactly what you think they're going to be like and that's what she was like whenever i met her she was always no airs and graces no it was just just really nice and down to earth and because it kind of it made you feel like that was exactly what you what you were hoping she would be like that's how you pictured it you know oh you've said some lovely words there peter about her uh now on on to far less important matters. Well, no, they're important to us.

They're important to us. We're doing the best song ever at the moment on the hits, and Mysterious Girl, your 94 smash hit, it was eliminated in round one by Pink. I can take the elimination, but round one. It wasn't like every song in the world got through. The best songs got through. So it's one of the best songs, but it didn't make it past round one.

And we're gutted. In that case, I'm buzzing. Yeah, yeah. I'll take that. We felt a duty to our friendship with you, Pete, to get you back in. And we've gone to some pretty extreme lengths. And the boss has said, yes, he can go back in. If you do a performance of Mysterious Girl in front of the entire office, we're talking 150, 200 people, that's happening today at midday.

And we thought we'd just run it past you first. Yes. Are you going to seriously do it? Well, I'm dressed for the occasion, Bubby. I've got all baggy denim jeans. That's the abs, bro. Hopefully there's an app where we can CGI some abdominals onto me. I don't remember Peter Andre having a ship tattoo on his stomach in the video.

If it's any consolation, mine are hibernating at the moment. They're just taking a bit of a chill. Tell us about the song Mysterious Girl. How did it come about? Did you write it? What went on? Yeah, honestly, when I tell this story, people are like, what? So I'll tell you what happened.

So I was in the studio in England and I Molly Meldrum who was musical guru in Australia he he said to me look you can go to England and record your second album for Oz but it's got to be for Australia and I was like oh you know can I release it in England and he's like look I don't think you know you're going to work in the UK but I think we should just go out there and just record for Australia. So when I was in the studio in England, there was a song called Mystery Man, a chorus, just a chorus called Mystery Man, right?

So I flipped it on its head and then we wrote the verses and the pre-choruses and all that. So it was originally called Mystery Man. Oh, really? You changed the whole storyline? Yeah, because it was meant to be girls singing the chorus, but

it just didn't work. And so then I rang Molly and I said, you need to please get over here and hear this song. And he goes, just send it to me. And I said, Molly, please. So anyway, two weeks later, he came to England and came to the studio. He heard the song, he turned around to me and he went,

this changes the game. That was his exact words. Wow. The iconic video. Where was that film? Was it in an island somewhere? Yeah, it looks like it's Jamaica, but it was actually in Thailand. It was a place called Pee Pee Island.

And do you know, I only found this out years later, but 10 years after the video, they filmed the movie The Beach in the same location. It was literal. I've never been back literally i've never been back i've never been okay can i just say water safety wasn't paramount in the video you're swimming with jeans on it's a drowning hazard yeah but you know what mate and i and honestly i don't know what i was thinking i don't know why i'm wearing jeans in the water like what i'm

back then i advised the guy that was filming said the water like what i've got now back then i the guys the guy that was filming said to me oh look we've got to find different locations and i was in my jeans and i said oh let me go up this this little waterfall area and see if it's good lighting up there got up there and the guy goes let's just film it and then no one said to me, why are you wearing jeans? The rest of the video is jeans. You're like, okay, that's my thing. I'm wondering what's going on here. The shirt's open, the abs are out, what's happening? Well, thank you for going abs plural, but there's only one.

There's only one. And I feel like this is probably a low point for your career and ours right now. Listen, let's have this low point together. Okay, so I think in the video you did have an open shirt, but the most iconic look was obviously shirtless. So I think shirtless and I presume baby oil. I mean, how much baby oil am I putting on him? You've got to plan for that stuff.

Now, Peter, I feel like there's a fine line between perfect amount of baby oil and overdosing on baby oil. Like, you just tell us when we're in the right zone. You're doing good, mate. You're doing good. I'm not quite sure where this is going, but you're doing good.

This kind of looks like not a family show. All right, can I just say I don't look, I don't look, you know look oiled up and sexy. I'm probably just sweaty. Like a sweaty man. Okay, all right. Well, now you're going to perform for Peter Andre. He's going to decide if it's good enough,

if he's happy to put his backing behind you to go out and perform in the office, get him back in the countdown. I'll hand it over to you. Okay, Jono Pryor singing Mysterious Girl. Baby girl I said tonight is your lucky night Peter Andre with Bob Bob Mad Is on the mic

I stop and stare at you Walking to the shore I try to concentrate My mind wants to explore The tropical scent of you Picks me up above And girl, when I look at you Oh, I fall in love

Oh, I know that you look so fine Oh, girl, I wanna make you mine Oh, I want to be with A woman just like you Oh, I know that I'm the only man Oh, who can love you like I can Oh, so just let me be with a woman that I love Baby girl!

And when were you planning on performing that? That's today at midday, lunchtime. Okay, listen. Honestly, like, just me, just being a mate, like, I reckon we could talk like that. I wouldn't do it. I'm glad he said that, because I was watching old guy go,

I wouldn't do it either. Glad we've got that relationship now, Peter, where you can tell it to us straight. You know, there's no pussy-footing round. I was dying inside watching it in the corner. I don't know how Peter Andre felt, but I was like, God, please don't make him do it. I mean, listen, I've had some low points, but...

I mean, come on. Peter, listen listen I'm sorry we've wasted up a lot of your data thank you for being honest and I guess we'll just we'll cancel the gig and we'll spend the

rest of the day very greasy I hope we can be mates no we appreciate your honesty we're going to go you're quite waterproof now aren't you

yeah yeah Peter Andre thank you very much you can catch the video of Jono performing to Peter Andre this afternoon. Well, the internet doesn't need to see that. Yeah, it'll be on the Hits Breakfast on Instagram later on today. The Hits. For more podcasts from the Hits Network, check out iHeartRadio.co.nz.