John Farnham - You're the Voice [4K AI Upscale | HEVC 10-bit | PCM 16-bit 44.1 kHz]

Genre: Rock, Pop
Style: Pop Rock
Year: 1986
Video Source: DVD, 576i
Audio Source: Qobuz (2006 Remaster)

"You're the Voice" is a song recorded by Australian singer John Farnham, released as a single in September 1986 ahead of his album Whispering Jack. It became an immediate hit in Australia as well as several European countries including the United Kingdom and Ireland.

"You're The Voice" was composed by British songwriters Chris Thompson, Andy Qunta and Maggie Ryder in response to an anti-nuclear demonstration in London's Hyde Park in 1985. More than 100,000 people attended the rally, but Thompson overslept. As an act of penance he decided to express his remorse by composing a song that emphasised the importance of invoking personal agency when it comes to effecting political change.
Keith Reid confirmed in June 2008 that "You're the Voice" started life with Thompson, who had the musical idea and wanted to have a lyricist involved. It was another of his projects where the music essentially preceded the words, which are all Reid's.
The song was recorded in 1986 by Thompson in a version (not then released) which Farnham's version closely resembles (though it contained no bagpipes) according to Keith. It was included on the Keith Reid Project's The Common Thread 2008 solo CD.
Thompson was initially doubtful if Farnham was able to do the song justice, as he only knew the singer from the novelty song "Sadie (The Cleaning Lady)", which Farnham had performed about 20 years prior as a teenager. Thompson later admitted in an interview that his reaction to Farnham was "You've got to be joking. He's not doing it."
Farnham, who was in considerable debt due to a series of "very bad business decisions", heard the demo and knew this was a make-or-break moment for his career. Having sold his house and car to pay down debts, Farnham went to the basement of the house he was renting and recorded the song. He made the decision to swap out the bass in the demo for bagpipes, which turned out to be a masterstroke. Thompson said, "They changed one note on the bass and put in this brilliant bagpipe solo."
Despite the song going through the chain of command and being improved at every juncture, they hit a wall when it came to securing a deal for Farnham. Wheatley said, "Every label passed on it. I had to release it on Wheatley Records because I couldn't get anyone to take the punt. I knew people at radio would still have a problem playing a John Farnham song [;] they'd still think you of him as Johnny Farnham." Even when the single was released, radio stations were resistant to play it due to the "Johnny Farnham" image.
The song, however, became hugely successful, revived Farnham's career and significantly helped Whispering Jack go 24× Platinum, with sales of 1.68 million in Australia alone. To date, Whispering Jack is the third-highest-selling album of all time in Australia as well as the highest of any Australian artist.

The song was one of the biggest hits of 1986 in Australia, topping the Kent Music Report singles chart for seven weeks from 3 November to 21 December. At the ARIA Music Awards of 1987 it won Single of the Year. It re-entered the Australian singles chart more than 25 years after its original release (reaching No. 64), due to its appearance in a 2012 Ford TV commercial to advertise the company's SYNC voice control system.
The power ballad is also one of Farnham's biggest successes in Europe, charting at No. 1 in Germany and Sweden and reaching the Top 10 in Austria, Ireland, Switzerland and the UK. Although "You're the Voice" was also successful in Canada (reaching the Top 20), in the United States the track performed relatively poorly, missing the chart on its initial 1987 issue. BMG/RCA re-released the song in the US in February 1990 after Farnham made the Adult Contemporary chart with "Two Strong Hearts". Farnham's version eventually spent eight weeks on the US charts, peaking at No. 82, but in the US the song is perhaps best known for a charting version issued in 1991 by the band Heart.
In January 2018, as part of Triple M's "Ozzest 100" of the "most Australian' songs of all time", the song was ranked number 6. The song was voted 15 in the Triple J Hottest 100 of Australian Songs.

The music video was recorded with celebrities (Derryn Hinch and Jacki Weaver) and musicians (James and Vince Leigh of Pseudo Echo) and Greg Macainsh, none of whom are on the original audio recording and were assembled by Farnham's manager, Glenn Wheatley. Wheatley later recalled, "[it] was done on a shoestring budget. I called in Derryn and Jacki, some of the guys from Pseudo Echo and Greg Macainsh from Skyhooks are in the band, it was pretty much anyone who'd do me a favour".

The song has been featured in numerous TV and film productions, including the films Hot Rod, Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa, the BBC series Merlin and comedian Peter Kay's Car Share. The Australian Electoral Commission has used the song in advertisements surrounding Australian state and federal elections since 2001. John Farnham performed the song live at the closing ceremony the Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games. In 2009, the song was included in Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City for the Vice City FM radio station, but was removed following its 10th anniversary. In 2012 the song was used in a Ford TV commercial to advertise the company's SYNC voice control system.
The song was used by anti-lockdown protesters who rallied in Melbourne, Victoria, during the COVID-19 pandemic. On 21 September 2020, it was reported by Seven News that the song had become a common theme at rallies around the city as Stage 4 lockdowns continued. Farnham's manager described the unauthorised use of the song as "offensive" to Farnham and the manager himself.
From 3 September 2023, the song was used to advocate for the "Yes" campaign in the 2023 Australian Indigenous Voice referendum, a vote to change the Australian Constitution to enshrine a Voice to Parliament for Indigenous Australians. The song played as a soundtrack for a video advert directed by filmmaker Warwick Thornton, which was released on social and other digital media and television.

Release Info
This one was on my list for a long time. Could not find a very good source for it and the quality varies
The videotrack is upscaled from 576i to 4K 60fps with Topaz Video AI and encoded to HEVC 10-bit
The PCM track (Qobuz, 2006 Remaster) is synced to the videotrack with Adobe Audition
The timed lyrics are synced and edited. Enable the subtitles to see the lyrics

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