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Paul Newell Hester (8 January 1959 – 26 March 2005) was an Australian musician and television personality. He was the drummer for the band Split Enz for their last year together from December 1983 to December 1984, and co-founding member and drummer of the band Crowded House .
Joined again by Tim Finn, the reunited group also performed at the debut show of Crowded House, the new band of Neil Finn and Paul Hester, two months later. [14] The second reunion followed in December 1989 when the group played four shows in Australia, again with Crowded House, followed by a show in February 1990 to benefit the victims of an ...
Paul V. Hester (born 21 October 1947) is a retired United States Air Force (USAF) general. He served as Commander, Pacific Air Forces , and Air Component Commander for the Commander, United States Pacific Command from July 2004 to November 2007.
Paul Hester worked with children's entertainers the Wiggles, playing "Paul the Cook". [33] He also had his own ABC show Hessie's Shed in Australia from late 1997. [2] He formed the band Largest Living Things, [2] which was the name rejected by Capitol Records in favour of Crowded House. [13]
The band at the Montreux Pop Festival, May 1988. L to R: Nick Seymour, Neil Finn, Paul Hester. Two months later they released their second album, Temple of Low Men. Crowded House and Neil Finn, as their main songwriter, were under pressure to create a second album to match their self-titled debut from June 1986; the band joked that one potential title for the new release was Mediocre Follow-Up ...
Paul Hester, another member of Crowded House, was the inspiration for the song. [3] The single was issued in the United Kingdom in November 1996 and was released in the United States the following year. The single was well-received on the radio and peaked at number 11 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart.
[14] [15] In the early 1980s, Conway was the domestic partner of Paul Hester—drummer for Deckchairs Overboard and then Split Enz—before he left for Los Angeles in 1985 and formed Crowded House there. [1] [16] Conway played the lead role of "Julie" in an Australian teenage road movie called Running on Empty, which was released in 1982. [6] [17]
Hester returned to play on these songs, but despite this he is not credited as a full band member on the album sleeve, which reads, "Performed by Crowded House (Neil Finn, Nick Seymour and Mark Hart) with Paul Hester." The new photos on the album sleeve only show Neil Finn, Seymour and Hart, although Hester and Tim Finn both appear several ...