10:04AM Jess McGuire | Are you, like very few people, strangely captivated by the copyright saga currently surrounding Alex Lloyd’s massive hit ‘Amazing’? Yesterday
Clem talked about how truck driver/musician Mark O’Keefe, the fellow who is suing Lloyd, has his updated recollection of how things went down and revealed he now believes he wrote the song with Lloyd up to two years later than he originally stated when he launched legal action.
A mysterious commenter named Sam contacted us and gave us a very,
very lengthy version of events from “someone who was actually there”.
It’s just someone’s opinion, and there’s no way for us to verify it (thank GOD for the legal system, eh? Imagine if Defamer Australia was left in charge of running things!) but it may prove to be an interesting read.
Please get your facts right before you crucify a brilliant songwriter and singer. Mark was not a truck driver at the time, he had only started driving a truck in the last couple of years to support his family. Maybe if Alex had of come clean with the copyright, he would not have needed to. Mark O’keefe has always been, and still is, a professional musician. You make him sound like a truck driver leaning on the bar getting drunk. Mark O’keefe wrote the song “Amazing” and this was witnessed by many people at the Bridge hotel in 1991. At the time in question Mark O’keefe and his band “What’s Next” were performing to a packed hotel. When the band had finished to a standing ovation, Mark was approached by Alex Lloyd, then (Slim La Beef) or (Slim) from his Band “Slim La Beef and the Spare Ribs” as he was known.
What’s Next was not just your average mediocre pub band either, and had many guest artists, including Stevie Wright (Easybeats) Paul Day (Iron Maiden) and Laurie Marlow (Heaven), to name a few.
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