Jan 10
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Glen A Baker
I bumped into Glen A Baker yesterday at the movies.
Glen is a journalist who has written more about Australian music in the media than possibly any other person I know and has appeared on TV as the Rock Brain Of The Universe (he is a mine of information about music).
Last year Glen had a really tough year. He had open heart surgery and his wife of 37 years left him – after having six children together.
Glen is one of those rare people who only see the good in people. So he has taken all of this in his stride and is getting on with life, albeit a little shell-shocked.
Glen came on a trip that I took in the early 90's to Moscow, when I led a Music Industry delegation to attempt to open up copyright discussions with the then Soviet Union. We went in the absolute dead of winter. That was of course before the White Revolution and the break up of the Soviet Union. Those were the bad old days of having a KGB agent watching your every move as a foreigner and where currency exchange controls meant that you had to report how much foreign cash you brought into the country and how many roubles you exchanged them for so that they could do a tally at the airport to see whether you had been selling dollars on the black market.
Glen is still doing the music industry rounds – and hopefully will continue for a long time to come!