Jeff Apter
Jeff Apter is the author of more than 25 books.
Opinion
Live music
In 1997, Mick Jagger asked: ‘Our last tour?’ Keith’s answer nailed it
I then described them as “the four oldest teenagers on the planet”, but with Thursday’s news of the release of a new Stones’ album, the title doesn’t quite work any more.
- by Jeff Apter
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Opinion
Pop music
Don’t let the funds go down on me: why Elton John is doing yet another farewell tour
The rock star is ‘doing a Melba’ and returning to Australia to say goodbye to the yellow brick road once more with feeling.
- by Jeff Apter
Opinion
Eurovision
Australia’s love affair with Eurovision will be our musical Waterloo
Ignoring geographical realities, European jingoistic bias and musical mediocrity, Australia is once again competing in the Eurovision Song Contest. But why?
- by Jeff Apter
Opinion
Christmas
Enough with the gravy: a plea for a new national Christmas anthem
Paul Kelly’s sad Christmas tune How To Make Gravy has becomes so entrenched as an Australian earworm that it has its own national day. Why not something more festive?
- by Jeff Apter
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Review
Fleetwood Mac’s former guitarist goes his own way, but treads old ground
Lindsey Buckingham’s new album features a track that threatens motion sickness with strobe-like guitars rubbing up against a beat with a case of the jitters.
- by Jeff Apter, Barry Divola and Barney Zwartz
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