Comebacks by 63-year-old musicians are rare, not least by ones who ditched their rock ’n’ roll career to enter federal politics, as Garrett did on the Labor ticket in 2004. That was two years after the singer said goodbye to the band that had occupied most of his adult life, Midnight Oil.
Now, in the space of just a few weeks, the singer has risen again, not once but twice, with the news that the Oils will tour internationally next year and that their frontman is about to release a solo album, A Version of Now, in July.
“No one is more surprised than me,” says Garett, more in the context of his solo outing than the Oils’ imminent return. Speculation on that has been rife since before he quit politics in 2013.
http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/music/speculation-midnight-oils-peter-garrett-planning-solo-come...
I've always liked Peter Garrett and felt he would have done much better in politics if he hadn't been caught up in Rudd's Pink Batts fiasco.
