AS politicians, musicians and aboriginal elders prepare to pay their respects at the state funeral for Mr Yunupingu, Paul Kelly remembers fondly his time with the Yothu Yindi founder.
The pioneering musician and educator's funeral will be held at Gulkula, about 40km north of Nhulunbuy, on Sunday morning.
Mr Yunupingu, the 1992 Australian of the Year, died aged 56 at his home in the small town of Yirrkala on June 2.
Kelly spent time with Mr Yunupingu in Arnhem Land working on arrangements for Yothu Yindi's second album, Tribal Voice, released in 1991.
"Yunupingu, when I got there said 'I want to write a song about the treaty,'" Kelly tells AAP.
"We struggled, because... I'm the complete opposite writer to the way he wrote, he was someone who wrote from the philosophy, he had a message.
"I sort of come from the area of just following people around."
Despite the difficulties Kelly and Mr Yunupingu had working on what eventually became Yothu Yindi's best-selling song, they brought a verse or two to Darwin where the band worked on it together.
"Then they came to Melbourne a few months later and we worked on it some more, so... it took a little while to finish off," Kelly says.
What broke the song for mainstream Australian audiences was the Filthy Lucre remix which peaked at No.4 in Australia and also appeared on the US Billboard dance charts.
"So it's a song of many hands," Kelly says.
Kelly appeared on stage with federal MP Peter Garrett singing Treaty when Yothu Yindi were inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame in 2012.
In Kelly's typical laconic style, he says he's still proud of the tune.
"I thought, that still works pretty well."
Both Kelly and Garrett will be speaking at Mr Yunupingu's state funeral.
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