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Promoter took rock, pop sounds to the world We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss By Glenn A Baker Save Normal text size MICHAEL SOLOMON GUDINSKI: 1952-2021 By 1974, the yardstick for album sales by a local act in this country was the 60,00O or so achieved by the first Daddy Cool effort three years before. Nobody was presuming that it could go much higher. Apart, that is, from Michael Gudinski. At the age of 22, this powerhouse of Russian Jewish descent, an alumni of Mt Scopus College and a former teenage dance promoter and band roadie, had e...

There’s been home schooling, cooking and lots of waiting since Kings of Leon made new album When You See Yourself.

Advertisement It’s 5am and Iggy Pop is lying in the gutter on Punt Road in Melbourne. Michael Gudinski answers the phone, jumps in the car and arrives in time to rescue the Godfather from an ignominious end. Phew. That’s rock’n’roll: more or less what any good concert promoter would do. A couple of decades later, Steely Dan are playing Australia at last. Good crowds, great shows, but the band isn’t playing Rikki Don’t Lose That Number and Reelin’ In the Years, so Gudinski shirtfronts their manager. “I don’t give a stuff,” he tells him, that ...

By: Christie Eliezer Live Performance Australia Cites New Figures In Call For Gov’t Intervention Arts and entertainment industry peak body Live Performance Australia (LPA) cited figures from a new survey to call for the government to extend its wage subsidy JobKeeper for the sector. The government is ending the scheme late March arguing 90% of the 1.3 million jobs lost in 2020 are replaced. But LPA chief executive Evelyn Richardson said that figure did not include arts and entertainment, which suffered “an estimated A$24 billion ($18.4 billion) ...

If the measure of a person is the company they keep, especially in a hard-nosed business where few are looking for friends or company, Michael Gudinski was a giant. Superstars and industry figures like Bruce Springsteen, Paul McCartney, Ed Sheeran, Kylie Minogue, Billy Joel, Jimmy Barnes, the Foo Fighters and Sting as well as Irving Azoff, Stuart Ross, Zane Lowe and others have shared their heartfelt condolences  – Gudinski’s influence was more than just as a concert promoter or music industry boss. “Legend. Legacy.  LOVE,” Minogue wrote on Twitter. “A Titan of the music industry...