The Seekers Keith Potger has paid tribute to his bandmate Judith Durham after she died at the age of 79 in Melbourne last week.

All members of the band were able to say their goodbyes to the Australian music icon, who was in palliative care following a long-standing lung disease.

Mr Potger told Liam Bartlett the band began with a meeting at a coffee shop.

“Judith became an executive assistant at the advertising agency that (fellow band member) Athol (Guy) was an account director at,” he said on 6PR Mornings.

“And Athol said to her ‘look, we’ve heard about you, why don’t you come along to the Treble Clef in South Yarra and have a bit of a sing with Bruce Woodley and Keith Potger and me, and see what you think’.

“And the poor girl said yes!”

Press PLAY below to hear more of Mr Potger’s reflections on the life of Judith Durham below 

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