Background
Paul Kelly & the Messengers gave their last performance in August 1991, with Kelly set to pursue a solo career. He justified his decision: "We forged a style together. But I felt if we had kept going it would have got formulaic and that's why I broke it up. I wanted to try and start moving into other areas, start mixing things up". To round out their career, Kelly organised Hidden Things to collect previously released B-sides, stray non-LP tracks, radio sessions, and other rarities recorded from 1986 to 1991. Except for "Bradman" and "Pastures of Plenty", the tracks had not appeared on earlier albums by Paul Kelly & the Coloured Girls or Paul Kelly & the Messengers. The album spawned a single, "When I First Met Your Ma", which was issued in April.
The album was issued in May 1992, after the group had been disbanded, and reached No. 29 on the ARIA Albums Chart. That same month, Kelly recorded a set of solo performances which were later released as the double live album, Live, May 1992.
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