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Paper Paradise: Do What You Want to Do
Paper Do what you want to do
is a roller coaster ride through the sex, drugs and rock and roll of the ’60s and ’70s to the high-flying business world of the ’80s and into the ’90s and beyond—with someone who lived it all.
It is a book about ambition, hunger, desperation, success and the fruits thereof. Oh yes, it is also about failure and fighting back.
Charting the extraordinary life and times of Glenn Wheatley, from working class boy to rock star of the 1960s and 1970s as a member of one of Australia’s most successful early bands, the Masters Apprentices, now immortalised in the ARIA Hall of Fame. In their heyday, the Masters drew bigger crowds than the Beatles in Australia.
In the 1980s he soared from rock star to star manager of the Little River Band and Whispering Jack, John Farnham. He also pioneered the FM Radio industry with the first FM radio station to go to air in Australia, EON FM in Melbourne. He then went on to build the foundation of what is now the Triple M radio network.
It is a narrative littered with casualties and is an actual account of a self-protective society that has its own Kings and Queens, its own iconography, its own language.
After a meteoric rise in the fast lane, and an equally spectacular fall, he made it back to the top. Glenn was the ultimate rock and roll survivor.
It is a book about ambition, hunger, desperation, success and the fruits thereof. Oh yes, it is also about failure and fighting back.
Charting the extraordinary life and times of Glenn Wheatley, from working class boy to rock star of the 1960s and 1970s as a member of one of Australia’s most successful early bands, the Masters Apprentices, now immortalised in the ARIA Hall of Fame. In their heyday, the Masters drew bigger crowds than the Beatles in Australia.
In the 1980s he soared from rock star to star manager of the Little River Band and Whispering Jack, John Farnham. He also pioneered the FM Radio industry with the first FM radio station to go to air in Australia, EON FM in Melbourne. He then went on to build the foundation of what is now the Triple M radio network.
It is a narrative littered with casualties and is an actual account of a self-protective society that has its own Kings and Queens, its own iconography, its own language.
After a meteoric rise in the fast lane, and an equally spectacular fall, he made it back to the top. Glenn was the ultimate rock and roll survivor.
462 pages, Kindle Edition
Published March 28, 2022
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Glenn Wheatley
3 booksGlenn Dawson Wheatley was an Australian musician and talent manager. Wheatley began his career as a musician in Brisbane in the mid-1960s and in the late 1960s became nationally famous in the leading pop/rock band The Masters Apprentices as bass guitarist. He subsequently formed a media empire which included radio stations and artists management. - Wikipedia
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January 7, 2024
A 3-star read except this 2022 book doesn’t update the 1999 original edition. It is basically a reprint.
It’s a shame it doesn’t include the story of Wheatley’s 2007 legal problems. For that I’ll have to search out his 2010 book Facing The Music.
It’s a shame it doesn’t include the story of Wheatley’s 2007 legal problems. For that I’ll have to search out his 2010 book Facing The Music.
July 2, 2023
Brilliant read for anyone interested in the music industry in Australia.
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