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Colin Friels (born 25 September 1952) is a Scottish-born Australian actor.
Friels was born in Kilwinning, Ayrshire, Scotland. His mother was a mill worker and his father a joiner. He lived in Kilbirnie until 1963, when his family moved to Australia, arriving in Darwin, Northern Territory before settling in the Melbourne suburb of Brighton. He worked as a bricklayer's labourer before studying at the prestigious National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA), and graduated from there in 1976, with actors such as Linden Wilkinson and Michael Siberry.
Friels career began with work mostly in theatre and television. In 1980 Friels was a presenter on the long-running children's series Play School. His first film role was in the unreleased Prisoners (1981), starring with Tatum O'Neal. The film was allegedly so bad that Tatum's father Ryan O'Neal purchased the rights to the film to prevent it from ever screening. His first actual appearance in film was in Monkey Grip (1982), an adaptation of a novel by Helen Garner, where he starred alongside Noni Hazlehurst.
Show me another revolution
I know there must be a better resolution
And all the children at war with good intentions
For all the reasons inside that no one mentions
Go on, go on
Let the radio lie
Go on, go on
Together this world is hung overs winging upside down
And it seems to be hanging over me right now
This world is hung over swinging upside down
I think I've had enough by now
I think I've had enough by now
Let's take another peice of heaven
Along with the all the king's soldiers in the kingdom
And send them raging far off in to the distance
And oh, we will hope for a future of existence
Go on, go on
Let the radio lie
Go on, go on
Together this world is hung over
Swinging upside down (world is hung over swinging upside down)
And it seems to be hanging over me right now
This world is hung over swinging upside down
I think I've had enough by now
I think I've had enough by now
I think I've had enough by now (3x)