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As the cricketing world prepares for the Ashes series between England and Australia, which will take place from June 16 onwards, it is time to revisit one of th

The winners of the 2022 APSCo UK Awards for Excellence - sponsored by NatWest, 6CATS International and Access Group - were announced yesterday (20th Sep...

The soul music visionary died in 1976 at the peak of his career. But his legacy endures – thanks to sampling, fans such as Elton John and Chaka Khan, and the efforts of his three daughters

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Musical journeyman had one of the great, distinctive Australian voices By Glenn A Baker Normal text size 1946-2021 “He’s big, this cat” wrote one Roger Aldridge in the September 20, 1969 issue of The Age. “Broad shouldered, big armed. And hairy. A wild mass of tight curls halo a broad tawny green saturnine face from which burn the most honest eyes you ever saw. His wide mouth is humorous and framed by a hairline moustache which drops to two chin tufts.” Doug Parkinson rarely went unn...

A lifelong Sydneysider, Parkinsons first band was Strings and Things, formed with the children of famed cricketer Sid Barnes. Parkinson’s musical tastes matured and in 1967 he explored psychedelic rock with The Questions. The group would support The Who, tour nationally with Small Faces and place second in the finals of the prestigious Hoadleys Battle of the Sounds. Before the ‘60s were finished, the singer formed a new band Doug Parkinson in Focus, whose reworking of The Beatles’ “Dear...

Georgia is releasing an ‘Ultimate Thrills Edition’ of this year’s album with new remixes. After starting 2020 by releasing her Thrills LP and going on to secure a Mercury Prize nomination, Georgia is ending it with a cover of Kate Bush‘s Running Up That Hill as the record gets an expanded reappraisal. “Closing my live sets with Running Up That Hill has been a pure joy, and it sparked the idea to record it,” Georgia says. “But, it didn’t start there, Kate Bush has been part of my...