DesOcon92

	An ecstatic audience cheered Neil as he came over for the interview. Here is Neil turning to the audience and saying - "They're mine. I love them. Thank you!"
	Des told the audience to - "Calm down you mad lot!" then he said some people had been telling him in the break that they had been to all his concerts. << This was Neil's reaction to that.
Des went on to ask what Neil had been doing in the year since he had last been on the show. His reply was that he had been doing concerts mainly. He said he had done 114 shows in that time - "just because it's fun and people are coming. I don't know why." Needless to say that got a yell from the audience.
Des then went on to talk mostly about song writing. He asked about You Don't Bring Me Flowers and why that seemed to have been written from a female point of view. Neil - It was. Actually I was asked to write it for a television series that was going to happen in the United States. It was a story of the roles that were changed. Men took the women's roles and the women took the men's roles. So the women were all the executives and in the executive suites in business and the men were the secretaries. I decided to write a torch song as sung by a man - a woman's song as sung by a man - and that is what you Don't Bring Me Flowers is basically all about. It started out as a one minute song - that was what they wanted a one minute song - so I wrote a one minute song with Marilyn and Alan Bergman exactly one minute which is very hard to do. For some reason or another they didn't care for it. They said "We want something up." We said OK. So I called my writers in again and we sat down and wrote another minute and then we had a record. So I went and recorded it and that was it until Barbra heard it. She said "You know that is a really good song, Neil." I said "We should do it together sometime." She said "Well how would you do it? I said "It's kinda like a little argument between people. You know a little tension between people."
Des then went on to speak about song writing in general. Neil said he didn't really like to try out his unfinished songs in front of his family. He preferred to wait until they were complete. When asked who his musical heroes were he chose the Everly Brothers and said how much he had wanted to be like them when he started out.

	Des then said he had a surprise for Neil. It was his platinum disc for The Greatest Hits 1966-1992. Neil replied - "Thank you so much Des. It's wonderful. thank you. I have a large family. Actually they bought most of these. "Now I have a surprise for you ..
	And Neil pulled from under the couch another presentation disk. "This is Des's album. It's wonderful, from what I hear, I'm going to get a copy as soon as I leave." Des offered to give him a copy!
	They held up their respective platinum albums. Then it was time for Neil to do a second song from the Christmas album.
Des asked Neil what he was going to sing. Neil just looked at him and said "I don't remember!" and laughed. "I'll remember as soon as I get up there."
He agreed with Des that it was a Christmas track. "The mystery track is coming up" said Des.
	Fortunately they did get it worked out and Neil took his place to sing Happy Christmas - War Is Over