Editing Paul Hester (section)

== Early years ==
Hester was the elder of two children (his younger sister is Carolyn). He was born in [[Melbourne]], [[Victoria (Australia)|Victoria]], the son of a bushman father and jazz drummer mother.<ref name="Laing">{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2005/mar/29/guardianobituaries.artsobituaries1|title=Paul Hester|last=Laing|first=Dave|date=29 March 2005|newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077|access-date=28 November 2016}}</ref> At an early age he was encouraged by his mother to play drums. His extrovert personality did not impress his teachers, and he left school early and attempted various jobs before starting a musical career.<ref name="Laing" /> He spent most of his teen years living in the [[Dandenong Ranges]], the family home being on the edge of [[Sherbrooke Forest]] at the Sherbrooke/[[Kallista]] boundary. Some of the Melbourne bands he played in from 1976 to 1978 included Thunder and Edges. In 1979 he co-founded a Melbourne-based band called [[The Cheks|Cheks]]<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/music/good-medicine-in-mateship-20110608-1fthl.html|title=Good medicine in mateship: John Clifforth's new album draws on his friendship with the late Paul Hester |last=Dwyer|first=Michael|newspaper=[[The Sydney Morning Herald]] |language=en|date=10 June 2011 |access-date=28 November 2016}}</ref> (renamed [[Deckchairs Overboard]] when they moved to Sydney in 1982).

He lived with [[Deborah Conway]] of [[Do-Re-Mi (band)|Do-Ré-Mi]] during the early 1980s,<ref name="theage.com.au">{{cite news |title=Something so wrong |url=https://www.theage.com.au/national/something-so-wrong-20050403-gdzwjv.html |last1=Ellingsen |first1=Peter |work=The Age |publisher=John Fairfax Holdings |issn=	0312-6307 |date=3 April 2005 |access-date=28 November 2016|language=en}}</ref> while playing regularly in Love Party.<ref name="Anna Harris">{{Cite web|last=Harris|first=Anna|title=Deborah Conway – Still Alive and Brilliant|date=30 January 2004|url=http://www.annaharris.com/creative/aconway.htm|access-date=19 July 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060514202706/http://www.annaharris.com/creative/aconway.htm|archive-date=14 May 2006}}</ref> Hester later worked with Conway in Rose Amongst Thorns (1990–1991) and Ultrasound (1995).<ref name="ARDb">{{cite web|title=Paul Hester profile|last1=Holmgren|first1=Magnus|work=passagen.se|publisher=[[Australian Rock Database]] (Magnus Holmgren)|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120111154650/http://hem.passagen.se/honga/database/h/hesterpaul.html|url-status=usurped|url=http://hem.passagen.se/honga/database/h/hesterpaul.html|archive-date=11 January 2012|access-date=19 September 2014}}</ref>