by David Robinson | Jun 12, 2019 | Live Music, Music, Reviews
Governor Hindmarsh Hotel, Tue 11 Jun. It’s an increasingly common occurrence; yet another incarnation of The Fab Four is visiting Adelaide, this time presenting a celebration of the classic Abbey Road album to a keen, if a little modest, crowd. After a fairly cheesy...
by Dave Bradley | Dec 4, 2018 | Book, Books, Reviews
Ray Connolly (Hachette Australia) 2018, 448pp, RRP $35.00, ebook $16.99 Even John Lennon’s most diehard fans might baulk at the idea of yet another biography of the man (1940 – 1980), and yet Connolly can claim to have been far closer to his subject than most other...
by Dave Bradley | Dec 17, 2014 | Books, Reviews
John Lennon (A&U Canongate) 2014, 78pp, RRP $24.99 Lennon’s literary début, first published in 1964 and written during the height of Beatlemania, is a joyously strange and silly collection of nonsense rhymes, short stories and non-sequiturs interspersed with his...