History

“I love the musty dry smell of old theatres, with their dust and creaky antiquity, their ghosts and quirks.”

“That was George Harrison,” I insisted, and the check-in officer who had seen Harrison’s passport confirmed his identity.

“…a carton of beer in 1974 was $5, which was the same cost as my singing lessons, and I was faced with the dilemma of spending the last $5 in my pocket each week on a singing lesson or a carton of beer. Eventually, the beer emerged as the winner.”

“Accordion players were outsiders, we had to find our own audiences and chart our own course.”

Not one single person came through the door. As the manager gingerly approached us I remember the keyboard player asking, “Are we still going to get paid?”

“Now, while it’s a given in this industry that every band needs to ‘pay its dues’, before ‘making it’, nobody really outlines what this looks like.”

“KC’s wasn’t without its troubles. The club would be absolutely empty until midnight when patrons already plastered would roll in from other venues.”

“Without a doubt, he was the king of the punks at the time, a real character with his mohawk hairdo and covered in tattoos but he was a natural leader … “

“Gobsmacked, I sat in Tony Geary’s office at EMI, the Australian home of Parlophone, the iconic recording label of The Beatles.”