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May 2nd, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Men at Work’s Greg Ham was a selfless, compassionate, funny man with a broad wit and uncanny knack for music, mourners at his funeral have been told.
Ham, who died at his Carlton home aged 58 on April 19, was eulogised by friends, family and former bandmates at a funeral in a packed Fitzroy Town Hall on Wednesday.
Fittingly, the service was filled with music.
Men at Work bandmate Colin Hay, despite being on tour in the USA, had penned a song specially for Ham, a clip of which was screened at the service.
“I’m blue for you… I’m blue for you… I don’t know what to do,” Hay’s powerful voice rued as he strummed his acoustic guitar.
Renowned saxophonist Wilbur Wilde, of Hey Hey it’s Saturday fame, played a haunting rendition of Massenet’s melancholic piece Meditation on the stage beside Ham’s coffin.
Ham’s ex-wife, Linda “Toots” Wostry, said her partner of 19 years – and long-time friend – had been loyal, loving, and generous to a fault, and had devoted himself to the couple’s children, Max and Camille.
She said Ham struggled with depression and anxiety following a court’s finding in 2010 that his signature flute riff in the Men at Work smash hit Down Under had been copied from the children’s song Kookaburra Sits in the Old Gum Tree.
The decision, along with the cases’s associated costs, took their toll on his health, she said.
“I personally couldn’t fathom how playing a fragment of a melody in a jazz context, known as ‘quoting’, is considered the height of musical wit, while in a rock context, it becomes plagiarism,” she said.
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