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  • Strutting & Fretting

    Paul Kelly | The Nation Reviewed | February 2010 | Society & Culture
    In show business, you’re generally either the main act or the warm-up. Over 35 years, I’ve been both. A good show needs different and complementary parts. And someone always has to go on first.Opening can be a sweet gig: your price is fixed, your set is short and you don’t have the responsibility...

  • SlowTV: The March of Patriots: Keating and Howard. Paul Kelly with Tony Abbott

    Paul Kelly | Melbourne | Melbourne Writers Festival | Politics
    The March of Patriots: Keating and Howard. Paul Kelly with Tony Abbott
    Part 1 | Part 2 At this Melbourne Writers Festival session, veteran political journalist Paul Kelly looks at the reigns and legacies of prime ministers Paul Keating and John Howard.As he does in his new book The March of Patriots, Kelly describes Keating and Howard as brawlers, schemers and nation-b... » play video

  • The Pretendies: The art of the spoken interlude

    Paul Kelly | July 2009 | Arts & Letters | Music | Society & Culture
    The spoken interlude has a long history in popular song. And takes a fair bit of nerve to pull off. The singer must step out from behind melody’s curtain and act. Elvis’s famous talking bit in ‘Are You Lonesome Tonight’ stretches Shakespeare’s actor-on-the-stage-of-...

  • C90

    Paul Kelly | May 2009 | The Nation Reviewed | Music | Society & Culture
    In my last year of high school the two coolest records were Hot Rats, by Frank Zappa, and Gasoline Alley, by Rod Stewart. (Yes, there once was a time when Rod Stewart was underground.) I wasn't in the hipster gang, but I knew what they listened to. I managed to get copies on a cassette: Frank on...

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