MEANJIN BACK ISSUE

ROCK'N'ROLL
V ol. 65, no. 3, 2006
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[Editorial]

Mark Mordue Made of Songs

[Fiction]

Tim Richards People Whose Names Bob Dylan Doesn't Know

Robert Forster The Coronation of Normie Rowe

Leanne Hall Dirty Deeds

Simon Groth Twelve Years, One Month and Thirteen Days

Ed Wright All Dressed Up and Only One Place to Go

Colin Dray Curtain and Glove 

[Essays and Memoirs]

Clinton Walker Before the Big Bang

On the origins of Oz Rock

Peter Doyle Signs and Wonders

Little Richard's tour of Australia in 1957

Denise Young Six O'Clock Rock

Johnny O'Keefe's impact on suburban life

Loene Carmen Down on Devil Gate Drive

Australia 's 'queen of underground rock'n'roll' on her early — and enduring — vocation

Robyn St Clare Keep on Moving

Rock'n'roll as lullaby? A vignette of childhood

Madeleine Byrne The Hamlet of Electricity

On Lou Reed's Berlin

Andrew McMillan Club 76 and All That

On the Saints' early days

Ross Gibson Subtropical Rock

Rediscovering Ed Kuepper and the Saints

Tim Wright My Eyes are Filled with Light

Rediscovering David McComb and the Triffids

Kathleen Stewart Perfumed Farts

An elegy for the charismatic bassist with Upside Down House

Lawrie Zion My Hot 100 Summer
The early days of Triple J by the inventor of its famous listener poll

Greg Macainsh The Fender L

The Skyhooks' guitarist on his love affair with his instrument

Mark Cherry Wanting More

A saga of surfing, drugs and rock'n'roll from an indie promoter

Sam Twyford-Moore Of Course I Know What's Going On

Returning to one's home town for a party — and a funeral

China de la Vega Singing their Stories

Working with indigenous musicians in Tennant Creek

Christos Tsiolkas Mix-Tape

The novelist's 'desert island discs'

Craig Mathieson Death and the Majors

The impact of new recording technologies on the music scene

[Review Essay]

Alicia Sometimes Women and Rock

Is rock'n'roll a male preserve?

[Interview]

Naomi Manuell Molly's Stardust
Talking to Molly Meldrum

[Diary]

Martin Armiger Pool of Echoes

The screen composer's musical past with Stephen Cummings and others

[ Design]

Chong Weng-ho Cover Story

The lost art of rock'n'roll sleeves

[Cinema]

Brian McFarlane From Rock of Ages to Rock'n'roll

Why Walk the Line may have a longer life than previous movies about the pop music scene

Dan Edwards Spectral Traces

On a forgotten film about two indigenous rock bands

[Images]

Gerald Jenkins Nick Cave and Kylie Minogue

Reg Mombassa Self-Portrait — St Kilda

Jim Pavlidis Greg Macainsh

Bleddyn Butcher David McComb

Matthew Sleeth Kylie Minogue in 'Tour of Duty'

Rachel Connor David Bridie,George Telek and the Moab Stringband

Bob King Skyhooks

Roberto Ratti Atomic Hen , Wild Horses

Fairfax archives Ross Wilson and Ross Hannaford of Daddy Cool

Reg Mombassa Amphead with Angel

Fred Kroh Stephen Cummings

Bleddyn Butcher Grant McLennan and Robert Forster

La Banca dell'Arte Team 'Billboard Poster' for Radio Birdman

Bleddyn Butcher Paul Kelly in London

[Comic]

Mandy Ord Mosh Pit

[Lyrics]

Paul Kelly How to Make Gravy

David McComb Wide Open Road

Greg Macainsh You Just Like Me Cos I'm Good in Bed

[Poetry]

Danny Gentile Ask the Living

Marisa Fazio Stars. We're all Stars

Graham Catt Tell Me What Rockers to Swallow

Adrian Robinson Poem for Robert Forster

Esther Ottaway Drummer

Timothy Kaiser Prairie Percussion: Wong's Café

Louise Wallace The Poets

S.K. Kelen Dance

Kevin Gillam Riff

Kate Mckee Iggy Pop

Ron Pretty The Tristan Chord

Derek Motion Seriously Good

Kieran Carroll Sydney Remembered as a Mid-Eighties Pub Gig

Reg Mombassa A Commemorative Tone Poem of Surprising Delicacy

Steve Kilbey Sadness and Longing in Australian Music

Kent MacCarter Upon Spotting a Fife-Playing Apparition in Metarie Cemetery

Michael Farrell Green Day Space Oddity

Mark Mordue He Dead

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