After 40 years of happy marriage to his beautiful wife Jo, radio legend Murray Lindsay knows a thing or two about what makes a relationship work.
Chatting to the Weekly on the eve of celebrating their ruby anniversary, Murray and Jo – who are also both wedding celebrants – can’t quite believe they’ve spent the last four decades together after a whirlwind romance that began in 1970s Tokoroa.
Tells Jo, “I’d just come back from my OE and I’d been posted to the post office in Tokoroa. I wanted to hire a TV, so I went into the TV rental shop and got talking to the lady behind the counter. She asked if I knew anyone in town, and I said no. She said, ‘Come along to a party – there’ll be lots of single men there!’”
And true to her word, it was at that Fiji-themed party that Murray first laid eyes on Jo – freshly-done perm and all.
“That very day I’d cut all my hair off and had it permed; you know, like the old Michael Jackson afro. It was very trendy in those days,” she says with a laugh.
“I must have enjoyed listening to MJ!” adds Magic Drive host Murray. “I saw her and I thought, ‘Ooh, she’s a bit of alright.’”
So the chase began – Murray the pursuer, while Jo wasn’t too fussed on embarking on a relationship.
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