So many of my back pages were written in, or about Adelaide, that it seemed obvious to kick off any promotional activity about my book of the same name in the Festival City. I called my old mate John Schumann. Would you be willing to do a ‘conversations with …’ thing? No worries, he said. The last week of October would suit, as he’d be in town rehearsing with The
You can get a copy of ‘My Back Pages’ at the following retailers. Click on links for details. If you’re going into a bricks and mortar store, it’s always wise to check that they haven’t sold out and are awaiting new stock. New South Wales GLEBE: Gleebooks, Glebe Point Road NORTHBRIDGE: Book Face, Northbridge Plaza SYDNEY: Abbey’s Bookshop, York Street SYDNEY: Redeye Records, York Street Australian Capital Territory WESTON CREEK: Songland,
My new book, an amalgam of memoir and anthology, is now available to order (link below). There’s the experience of emigrating to the steel town where the desert meets the sea; the escape to Adelaide’s nourishing airs; the return to Britain to fathom why the family left; and the realisation there was no future in England’s dreaming. Then the plunge into publishing. Rock ‘n’ roll stories of course; Springsteen, Split
There was a lot of love in the room at the Adelaide launch of ‘No Fixed Address’ and the opening of the related exhibition in the Wall Gallery at Her Majesty’s Theatre on 24 August. Main pic: Duckie Taylor, Graeme Isaac, Donald Robertson and Ricky Harrison. Pic by Peter Thurmer. An early arrival was original No Fixed Address sound engineer (and sometimes bass player) Duckie Taylor, accompanied by his cousin
‘The public for pop in the years 1954 to 1964 created a new social order which changed the fabric of life and the course of the century … ‘It was not merely a case of roll over Beethoven, more the almost entire rejection of an inheritance of style, taste, manners, behaviour and ethics in the pursuit of change.’ — Bob Rogers with Denis O’Brien, Rock ‘n’ Roll Australia — the
