Category: Features – Archive

July 29, 2023 / Features - Archive

It was the owner of a tiny Japanese record shop who finally turned Beverly Glenn-Copeland’s career around. This was in 2015 when Ryota Masuka emailed to ask the transgendered singer/songwriter if he still had any copies of his 1986 cassette-only album Keyboard Fantasies. Glenn-Copeland – Glenn to his friends –…

July 15, 2023 / Features - Archive

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…

July 11, 2023 / Features - Archive

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…