"We would have been very happy to be an indie band who perhaps got a bit of late night radio play, and got a few nice reviews in niche publications... in fact it went way beyond that."
From Jimi Hendrix, Joni Mitchell to Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and Vince Jones. Heroes is a series that invites some of Australia's best known musicians to nominate a hero from the past.
In collaboration with The Conversation, musicologists from all over Australia help deconstruct, demystify and decode history’s greatest music masterpieces.
At 20, Tupac Shakur released his first album. By 25, he was dead. But in those five short years he cemented his legacy as of the most iconic figures in hip hop. L-FRESH the LION and Rosa Gollan explain.
In the short 27 years Jimi Hendrix was alive, he made an astonishing contribution to the world of electric guitar playing. Here are four tracks that prove his genius.