All about the gravy

The classic Aussie song How to Make Gravy is the secret sauce to this star-studded Foxtel original

HOW TO MAKE GRAVY Sunday December 1 at 8.30pm and watch On Demand Movies Premiere [401] Paul Kelly’s bittersweet Christmas lament, How To Make Gravy, became a cult classic after its release in 1996. The song – a letter written from the perspective of an incarcerated man named Joe – even spawned an annual cultural moment known as ‘Gravy Day’ on December 21, the date of Joe’s letter. Kelly had no idea his track about an inmate missing Christmas with his family and sharing his gravy recipe would resonate so strongly with people. “It was a song that doesn’t have a chorus, it’s set in prison, so I never thought it would be a hit,” the iconic musician has previously said. Now, after almost 30 years of living inside Kelly’s lyrics, we…

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