I love the classics, big on Roman history
Astrerix the Gaul, Asterix in Belgium etc.
I use to read heaps of biography's of bands/musos/from the late 60's and other artists of that time.
ie - Andy Warhol, Salvador Dali.
'Hippy Hippy Shake' - Richard Neville was an interesting character. He was the founder of Oz magazine. For those that dont know it was a fairly feral for the times street mag started here and then he moved to the UK and started it up there aswell. He was also 1 of a bunch that was commissioned to paint murals at Luna Park, the walls of the old fun house etc. Spew'n I never knew that when I was just a kid the last time I was there. Pretty sure all that stuff got pillaged and auctioned off for peanuts.
Dont know how many John Lennon/Beatles books ive read. Its hard to get accurate info because their circle of people was so tight, alot of what they got up to is now gone with the passing of those most close to them.
Marianne Faithful - She was Jaggars girlfriend when he came here to make that Ned Kelly movie.
Mark Chapman, the bloke that shot Lennon. Fuckin idiot but was a good read.
Danny Sugarman - Became The Doors manager when he was a teenager. Use to babysit Iggy Pop when he flew in from London. Iggy neede babysitting cause was lunatic and would get into all sorts of trouble.
Floyd, Stones, Led Zep, Ozzy, Sabbath etc etc.
I use to love reading Australia books , stories form years gone by. Sometimes you'd find stories in old readers digest books.
The last good book I read was 'A fortunate life'. I think its fairly popular classic. Australian. Its about a bloke who grew up pretty hard in a time when everything wasn't handed to you on a silver platter. Highly recommend it.
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