His Master's VoiceJim Keays, the lead singer of the Masters Apprentices, tells of life in a top rock band in Australia in the sixties. |
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Born to be alive | 30 |
Adelaide alive | 40 |
Feels like teen spirit | 47 |
On the road to somewhere | 57 |
Band molls paradise | 98 |
The beach ball or the fountain pen | 111 |
The penthouse of illusion | 121 |
Let there be drum | 135 |
The day the sixties music died | 151 |
The four stooges do Panama | 160 |
Abbey Road | 179 |
We are heavy we are brothers | 197 |
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Popular passages
Page 19 - That concert was one of the great days of my life and I made up my mind then and there that I had to be in a band.
Page 44 - It had no real chorus line and no lyric that seemed to jump out as a title. 'What shall I write on the tape box?
Page 41 - I was determined that this was not going to happen to me, not because I was a coward but because I loved music Deirdre and me. How did we get that lot of hair to look like 'short back and sides'?
Page 53 - Adelaide on the car radio and had to pull over to the side of the road to listen to it.
Page 99 - What he lacked in formal education, he more than made up for in raw talent.
Page 100 - This must seem like financial madness now, but we didn't look at it that way at the time. It was something we felt we had to do for the greater good.
Page 2 - I must have been conceived in late 1945, only a few months after the end of World War II.