CULTURE: David Bowie
CULTURE
That Blockhead Thing: Aztec Music’s Archaelogical Dig
Richard Guilliatt
The ’60s, so the saying goes, didn’t start in Australia until the ’70s. Richard Nixon was well into his first term in the White House by...
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Robert Forster
Some years ago I was in the cluttered study of a friend who works as a music journalist and radio broadcaster in Munich. The walls were...
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CULTURE
Queen of the Night: Meeting Meow Meow
Peter Conrad
Allergic as I am to cats, whose fur causes my eyes to water and chokes my air passages, I have to admit a guarded fondness for Meow Meow,...
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SOCIETY
Hair Care
Robert Forster
At 17 I could have become a hairdresser.In Brisbane in the early to mid '70s, the only places offering any kind of interesting shopping...
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The Remembering: Ari Folman’s 'Waltz with Bashir'
Luke Davies
The Israeli director Ari Folman's audacious Waltz with Bashir is called an animated documentary feature by its producers. It is much...
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Bryan Looks Back: Bryan Ferry’s ‘Dylanesque’
Robert Forster
Many years ago there was a show on ABC Television called GTK. The initials stood for the rather quaint phrase ‘getting to know'. The...
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Robert Forster
Molly is up in the bleachers with a microphone and a spotlight on him. He's up there to introduce the last act of the night, Sherbet....
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