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From cult heroes the Saints and the Go-Betweens to national icons Powderfinger and international stars Savage Garden, Brisbane has produced more than its share of great bands. But behind the music lay a ghost city of malice and corruption. Pressed under the thumb of the Bjelke-Petersen government and its toughestā¦
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Cultural history is now a book business-standard. That wasnāt always the case. For me myself, I had to read Otto Freidrichās City of Nets (1987) and Jon Savageās Englandās Dreaming (1992) before I could properly formulate my 1996 book Stranded. Stalwart rock journalist Andrew Staffordās debut book from 2004, Pig City, is a cultural history of the Brisbane music scene āfrom the Saints to Savage Gardenā, which makes it a regional history too. What makes it gripping, next Staffordās deft handling of the material, is the story itself, which is not just that of an erstwhile backwater finallyā¦
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