Put your clock back for the winter: How Shihad's 'Home Again' became New Zealand’s most helpful song

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Put your clock back for the winter: How Shihad's 'Home Again' became New Zealand’s most helpful song

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Every year Shihad’s 1997 single ‘Home Again’ helps countless New Zealanders remember how Daylight Saving works. But as Calum Henderson discovers, its famous opening line was almost something completely different. Jon Toogood was 24 years old when he wrote one of th...

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15 January 2017

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Calum Henderson

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http://thespinoff.co.nz/music/15-01-2017/put-your-clock-back-for-the-winter-how-shihads-home-agai...

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