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The Living End’s all-star music video features Molly Meldrum, Jimmy Barnes and Daryl Braithwaite

MOLLY Meldrum and other iconic Australians including Jimmy Barnes and Matty Johns, have teamed up to star in The Living End’s latest music video. WATCH IT HERE.

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RADIO personality Ray Hadley has been filmed having an epic dummy spit after his ventriloquist act was trashed by the judges of a new talent quest.

But his expletive-laden meltdown is a comedic turn in the video for Don’t Lose It, the new single from revered rockers The Living End.

The trio, Chris Cheney, Scott Own and Andy Strachan have enlisted an all-star cast of Australian personalities from Kasey Chambers playing Hula Helen to Eddie Maguire as Collingwood Eddie who is a complete failure as a Sheerin juggler.

The Living End have released their latest music video to Don't Lose It. Picture: Supplied
The Living End have released their latest music video to Don't Lose It. Picture: Supplied

Other hilarious cameos include Tom Williams as the over-the-top show host Brian O’Brien, a “six-times Logies attendee” and original Wiggle Murray Cook as ageing rapper MC Stretch.

The band play the “superstar” judges, with bassist Scott Owen as a Simon Cowell-lookalike who declares “I don’t care what they do, they can fart into a lunch box as long. I just want someone who is going to make money.”

Molly Meldrum as Elvis! Picture: Supplied
Molly Meldrum as Elvis! Picture: Supplied
Matthew Johns and Chris Paige portray gay bikers. Picture: Supplied
Matthew Johns and Chris Paige portray gay bikers. Picture: Supplied
Jimmy Barnes as a mariachi muso. Picture: Supplied
Jimmy Barnes as a mariachi muso. Picture: Supplied
‘Collingwood Eddie’ plays a terrible juggler. Picture: Supplied
‘Collingwood Eddie’ plays a terrible juggler. Picture: Supplied

Jimmy Barnes opens the auditions as Jimmy Jesus, a mariachi musician performing the band’s single.

Other “excellent” acts include Daryl Braithwaite as Steven Saddle from Wagga Wagga whose act involves him riding a stuffed toy horse and Grinspoon frontman Phil Jamieson as the magician Bruce.

Triple M duo Matty Johns and Chris Page try out as gay bikers and You Am I’s Tim Rogers attempts poetry reading as Ron Pendulum.

You can just hear ‘Horses’ playing as the backdrop to this pic of Daryl. Picture: Supplied
You can just hear ‘Horses’ playing as the backdrop to this pic of Daryl. Picture: Supplied
Kasey Chambers plays ‘Hula Helen’ in the star-studded video. Picture: Supplied
Kasey Chambers plays ‘Hula Helen’ in the star-studded video. Picture: Supplied

But the only act to get the thumbs up from the judges is The King, with Molly Meldrum delivering his best Elvis impersonation.

The Living End comedy clip arrives a week after hip hop heroes Hilltop Hoods also stretched their acting chops as suburban daggy dad dancers who get murdered by a serial killer in the video for their latest single Clark Griswold.

Originally published as The Living End’s all-star music video features Molly Meldrum, Jimmy Barnes and Daryl Braithwaite

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