Stories from my musical youth
Who are my most missed musicians – and why? Who are the musicians that are most missed? Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain, John Lennon? Amy Winehouse or Janis Joplin? Elvis Presley, Freddie Mercury, Jimi Hendrix, Marvin Gaye or Whitney Houston? Brian Jones, Ray Vaughan? The lead …
Selina’s @ The Coogee Bay Hotel, Sydney Blue January It was a blue January day indeed several years ago when Selina’s – a Sydney music legend – closed her doors. At the time, the owner of the Coogee Bay Hotel (CBH) cited tighter licensing laws in New …
Can you mourn someone you’ve never met? A tribute I recently went to see a George Michael tribute act. Doing so really got me thinking – about the artist we’d lost, and about death in general. More specifically – can we truly mourn someone we’ve never …
Maybe it’s just me, but when I hear a particular song it can instantly transport me back to my earlier days. A snatch of beat, a few notes of melody or even paraphrased lyrics can take me right back to the 1970s, 80s or 90s. …