I am working on getting the first 50,000 words polished to get to Mary Cunnane, my agent. And then I find out whether the rubber hits the road or not!
During the last two months as I have particularly focused on the 60's and 70's - London, the music scene, traveling the hippie trail - a smorgasbord of experience at a very rich time in social history, I have been motivated to find out "what happened to...?" You know how at the end of some movies, the closing credits say, " George X became an investment banker and married a princess. Joan Y was indicted for being a serial killer... etc. etc".
Well it has been fascinating tracking down a few of the protagonists from my life who I have lost touch with over the last 30 years.
In the last month or so I caught up with Louise Denver, who was one of the most daring investigative video journalists around during the 60's. She is living in Sydney now. I spoke to David Redom, who was her partner. He was also one of the top rock photographers in London in the 60's. He, sadly, has a degenerative neural disease and is in a nursing home just out of London.
In the last week I had a call from Rob Gold, who was the keyboard player from Kate, the band I was in. I had left a message on his phone a few weeks back and then forgotten about it. It was great to catch up with him. Rob has been a manager and publisher ever since that time we were in a band, managing Tim Rose who wrote some great songs in his time.
And then a few weeks ago I had dinner with Simon Napier-Bell. He and I became friends in the 70's after I had come to Australia. Simon, of course, managed Wham! But he was at the centre of what was happening in the music scene in London in the 60's too - he managed the Yardbirds, and produced them. And Simon has more great stories about the music business than anyone on the planet has a right to!
Memories of exciting revolutionary times, crazy times, people and events.... they are so much richer for sharing with others who were there.
While doing the research I also came across some reviews for the band and a picture....
Here it is straight from 1968! Kate....
