Paul Kelly Unearths 40-Year Old Track For New Single 'Cool Hand Lukin'

Paul Kelly Rediscovers and Releases 40-Year Old ‘Cool Hand Lukin’

Paul Kelly has discovered a 40-year old outtake from his ‘Post’ album and is letting us hear it for the first time. ‘Cool Hand Lukin’ is the song. Paul says: We’re releasing a new song today. Or should I say an old song never before released. I shared a flat with Paul Hewson, the piano player and song-writer from Dragon, in Elizabeth Bay when I first moved to Sydney in 1984. During that year’s Olympics, televised from Los Angeles, we watched the…

Paul Kelly Unearths 40-Year Old Track For New Single 'Cool Hand Lukin'

Paul Kelly in 1987 | CREDIT: Doris Thomas/Fairfax Media via Getty Images. Paul Kelly has shared a new, previously-unreleased single – albeit one with a decades-old caveat. ‘Cool Hand Lukin’, Kelly’s first new music of 2025, was originally written back in 1984 while watching the Los Angeles Olympics. Kelly and the song’s co-writer, the late Paul Hewson of Dragon, wrote the song after seeing Australian weightlifter Dean Lukin win a gold medal in t…