Category: Features – Archive

October 22, 2022 / Features - Archive

Al Di Meola could have been just another among thousands of children whom the Beatles inspired to play guitar. Instead he also studied jazz, and turned himself into a virtuoso best known for genre-crossing between electric jazz and flamenco fusion. But the Beatles’ music always remained close to his heart.…

October 3, 2022 / Features - Archive

A teenaged Renee Geyer had just recorded her first album in 1972 when the band with which she made it, Sun, fired her for not taking the music seriously enough. Her subsequent career soared to the forefront of Australian popular music, while Sun died within two years. But if that…

August 19, 2022 / Features - Archive

The day that came to define him occurred when he was only four. This was in 1960, when government agencies forcibly took Archie Roach and his siblings away from their parents. In his autobiography, Tell Me Why, Roach recounts a memory that came back to him many years later of…