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Ten sound recordings with cultural, historical and aesthetic significance have been added to Sounds of Australia for 2020.
This year's inductees include radio show Martin/Molloy, Arnhem Land...
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Dubbed 'the mother of rock', Lillian Roxon was the most influential rock journalist in the world from the mid-1960s to the early 1970s.
One of the first writers to take rock music seriously, her...
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The NFSA has unearthed a rare interview with the late John Bonham from Led Zeppelin. The interview is a centrepiece of the new authorised documentary, Becoming Led Zeppelin.
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Thorsten Kaeding pays tribute to Max Merritt, the New Zealand-born singer-songwriter and lead singer of Max Merritt & The Meteors.
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To celebrate Sir Elton John's farewell tour, we've found some rare press conferences and interviews from previous visits to Australia in 1974, 1984 and 1988.
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Australian journalist Lillian Roxon was one of the first to take rock and punk music seriously.
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We pay tribute to rock journalist and NFSA Oral History interviewer, Anthony O'Grady.
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With the passing of Doc Neeson we have lost an icon of Australian rock, writes sound curator Thorsten Kaeding.
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In this brief but brilliant round-up Lillian Roxon speaks with a sense of urgency – talking at a mile a minute in order to review albums and mention acts she hasn’t had time to focus on in her radio...
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Lillian Roxon champions ahead-of-their-time band The Velvet Underground and lead singer Lou Reed, who is about to strike out on his own. Lou Reed was a regular at Roxon's New York haunt Max's Kansas...
