Neil Finn's songs have been compared in their universal appeal to John Lennon's and Paul McCartney's, Elton John's and Brian Wilson's. He is a unique songwriter, a craftsman, who writes deceptively simple, elegant pop gems full of warmth and emotion. While always reluctant to talk about what a song means, Neil Finn has said of songwriting: "The sound of the words is as important as what they're saying. When a song comes, you get given certain lines and you have to go with it. That's how songs are . . . it's a mysterious thing I can't explain."
Beginning with Split Enz, Neil Finn went onto international fame as the lead singer of Crowded House. Some of his songs have been co-written with his brother Tim Finn. This collection of lyrics will stand alongside Paul Kelly's 'Don't Start Me Talking'. A beautiful collection of Finn's best songs, it will remind us that our best songwriters are the poets of our generation.
