Anthony O'Grady
In 1995 he started Australia’s first music tip sheet, The Music Network. His book Cold Chisel: The Pure Stuff, on Australia’s most legendary, enigmatic and enduringly popular rock band was published in 2001.
List of articles in the library by artist
AC/DC: Australia has Punk Rock bands too, y'know
Interview by Anthony O'Grady, RAM, April 1975
LADEES AND GENTLEMEN, introducing one of the few bands in Australia that deserves the tag of a real street punk band...putcha fists together in ominous ...
David Bowie: 'Rock and Roll is Dead'
Interview by Anthony O'Grady, RAM, July 1975
"WELL," SAYS David Bowie. "Rock and roll is just a toothless old woman. It really is." ...
David Bowie: Watch Out Mate! Hitler’s On His Way Back
Interview by Anthony O'Grady, New Musical Express, August 1975
"WE THINK WE'VE got an audience," says the spokesperson in the Bowie suite. "We're pretty sure the operator will be listening in." ...
Leonard Cohen: Incurable Romantic
Profile and Interview by Anthony O'Grady, RAM, April 1980
WHEN LEONARD COHEN takes the stage there's a small, collective gasp, almost resembling the threshold of tumescence, or the sudden realisation of a dream come ...
Elvis Costello & The Attractions: This Year's Model (Radar)
Review by Anthony O'Grady, RAM, May 1978
ELVIS COSTELLO? Probably you've heard of him even if you haven't heard 'Watching the Detectives' on radio or you somehow missed out on the RAM/Stiff ...
Adam Faith: Budgie wiv Stardust Wings: Adam Faith
Interview by Anthony O'Grady, RAM, June 1975
IN THE OLDE DAYS of Rock and Roll, it seemed as soon as anyone made No. 1 in the charts he wasn’t content to be ...
Radio Birdman: Balmain Town Hall, Sydney
Live Review by Anthony O'Grady, RAM, January 1976
GOD I WISH the Top 40 sounded like the Radio's 'Smith and Wesson' or 'There's Gonna Be A New Race...' or 'Maelstrom'. But it doesn't. ...
Radio Birdman: Birds of a Feather Rock Together
Retrospective and Interview by Anthony O'Grady, Sydney Morning Herald, the, July 2007
THERE ARE two general categories of musicians in Halls of Fame – the supremely successful sellers of concerts and records, and those who pave the ...
Profile and Interview by Anthony O'Grady, RAM, February 1976
RON KEELEY, Radio Birdman's drummer, is sitting on a steel framed chair listening to a just competent group pound out hard rock as best it ...
Lou Reed: An Afternoon With Lou Reed And Metal Machine Music
Report and Interview by Anthony O'Grady, RAM, August 1975
Quite simply – there were no survivors ...
Sherbet: Around Australia In 350,000 Girls
Report by Anthony O'Grady, RAM, September 1976
2011 introduction: From 1974-79 there was an Australia-wide rock 'n' roll touring circuit, headed by Sherbet. The peak was Sherbet's 1976 'Around Australia in 80 ...
Profile and Interview by Anthony O'Grady, RAM, July 1975
NO DOUBT ABOUT IT, Split Enz is a strange band. They walk out on stage like a collection of clockwork scarecrows and their music is ...
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