MURRAY'S RUBY GIRL My marriage has magic!

THE BROADCASTER HAS A TRUE GEM IN JO

- Kelly Bertrand

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.