Crystal set radio was my ticket to ride
For a Melbourne-based boy who couldn’t wait to embrace the new 60s music, a crystal set radio was the ticket to ride.
For a Melbourne-based boy who couldn’t wait to embrace the new 60s music, a crystal set radio was the ticket to ride.
Just over a decade after Japanese Americans started being interred, Hiroshi ‘Hershey’ Miyamura’s actions earned him the Congressional Medal of Honour.
At 73, Billy Joel proves match-fit as he plays a crowd-pleasing selection of his songs with perhaps the sharpest touring band in rock and roll.
Every black-hearted despot needs his useful idiots. The biggest names in Western culture have often been manipulated to help paper over the cracks of brutal regimes. These are some of the worst.
In his mid-30s, one time world flyweight boxing champion Moi Fuentes risked a final bout against an unbeaten knockout specialist.
One poor and uneducated Argentinian mother led others to look for their sons and reached deep into a troubled country’s soul.
We all know John F. Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963, but often neglected is the story of the second murder that took place that day in Dallas, Texas.
Peter Hook is bringing his old band’s two albums to life in Australia – a remarkable showcase of what might have been.
Beaten to the point of brain damage and reviled the world over, the Melbourne activist has finally been vindicated as a visionary.
A diver and strong swimmer, Felip Karma apparently drowned. His countrymen are right to question the circumstances – too many relatively young West Papuan leaders die in odd ways.
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