Each week we ask music lovers to share seven songs that have shaped their life. This week it's actor Mike Minogue, star of TVNZ's spooky mockumentary, Wellington Paranormal. Season two premieres Wednesday night on TVNZ2 and can be streamed on TVNZ OnDemand.
Thriller - Michael Jackson
What a tune - but what a video as well. I associate a lot of my music with their videos because I used to watch a fair amount of TV. I was a big Michael Jackson fan. My mother thought it was unhealthy but I loved it all. Loved Man in the Mirror, Liberia Girl, which when I was a kid I thought was Librarian Girl, because I hadn't heard of Liberia. I just thought he was being very specific because I thought all librarians were girls. To this day I don't think I've seen a male librarian. Or Liberian. I haven't seen either.
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Rocket Queen - Guns N' Roses
Appetite for Destruction is the best album of all time as far as I'm concerned. It came out at the same time as Poison's Open Up and Say ... Ahh! I was 12 years old and remember having a big argument with my best mate about what was the better album. Unfortunately I went with Poison, which history tells us was the wrong choice to make. I think about that conversation a lot. I just thrashed Appetite. I saw Guns N' Roses in 1991. I hitchhiked to Auckland from Levin. I would have been 15 or 16. I went up by myself because none of my mates wanted to go. My brother went up separately. He drank so much that he passed out while Skid Row were playing and woke up when the whole concert was over. So he thought it was s***. I said, "Well, technically you were asleep." But he wanted to make himself feel better. They were gods at that time. I love them and Rocket Queen is like their rock opera. They jammed two songs together and you can hear that. As a record closer, it's brilliant. I'd put it up against any album closer.