By Tony Wellington Monash University Publishing, $36.99 The fabled 1960s conjure some combination of idealism, collectivism, a popular music explosion, Civil Rights, the pill, Vietnam, adventurousness in other arts and mind-altering drugs. The 1970 demise of The Beatles came just as the idealism began to wane, and selfishness and narcissism…
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Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason remembers his first visit to Sydney for all the wrong reasons. This was when the band performed at Randwick Racecourse on a bitter winter’s day in 1971. “It was probably the coldest gig I’ve ever played,” Mason recalls on the phone from one of his…