[2022-04-07] John Farnham "33 1/3: Whispering Jack" paperback by Graeme Turner (Bloomsbury)

Linda · **Posted:** Mon Jan 17, 2022 9:25 pm

https://www.amazon.com/dp/1501382063/?tag=imwan-20

Description
The album examined in this book transformed the singer John Farnham from a faded teen pop star into the most popular solo rock performer in Australia, in a career that has lasted for more than 30 years. Whispering Jack remains the top-selling album by an Australian artist in Australia, and constitutes the turning point in Farnham's bid to achieve credibility as an adult contemporary musician. The first single from the album, 'You're the Voice,' has achieved such iconic status that it is routinely referred to as Australia's unofficial national anthem. The book examines the album, its context and that history in order to recover a crucial conjuncture in the development of Australian rock and popular music, one that has previously been ignored in Australian popular music studies.

Simon · **Joined:** 26 Oct 2006 **Posts:** 59406

This might be interesting. I lived through that whole era and Farnham instantly went from being a bit of a joke to being a superstar in no time flat.

[2022-04-07] John Farnham "33 1/3: Whispering Jack" paperback by Graeme Turner (Bloomsbury)

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