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called it “a near perfect piece of popcraft”. Even so, it took until April the following year for its signature tune, to peak at number 2. Seasoned rock biographer Jeff Apter gives us a light, engaging portrait of the powerhouse behind Crowded House – Neil Finn.
He takes us from the early years in small-town New Zealand and singalongs around the family piano, to Australian success in Split Enz , being down and out in London, the double-edged nature of fame, and more.happened, it was the result of years of writing and learning, hence the confidence of Finn’s songs. Makes you go back to the music.“Now, I’d like a really nice soldier to take care of my luggage.” It’s unlikely the request, from a refined English woman, was granted.
Bletchley Park had cracked the Enigma code, command on Crete knew the invasion would be airborne, and they knew the date, May 20. It didn’t help. Interestingly, when the Germans floated to earth, the troops on the ground aestheticised it, one soldier writing of them as “white handkerchiefs being let go out of a carriage window”. Using first-hand testimonies, this is dramatic popular history.The eponymous “line of blood” refers to the Indigenous dead in the Frontier Wars, and was coined by British-born anthropologist and explorer Alfred Howitt , a distant cousin of the author.
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