The Outer Edge of Fame

About the Book

How did a boy too shy to speak to girls at school grow up to be invited home by exotic women after a casual chat? What’s a teacher from the suburbs doing rocking out the audience of In Melbourne Tonight, hobnobbing at the opening of Richard Branson’s studio, or talking the cops out of raiding the Aunty Jack tour bus? How did he nearly meet Bette Midler? What is the son of a Jehovah’s Witness supposed to do in the Vietnam War, and how does the son of a World War II veteran take to the world of sex, drugs, and rock ’n’ roll?

About the Author

Rod Bryar has lived some of the iconic experiences of twentieth-century Australia. He waited as the birthday ballot ball was drawn, which would send him into national service and then to Vietnam. Disillusioned and suffering PTSD, he delved into the London ex-pat life and the European resort circuit of the seventies, a world of musical, sexual, and chemical experimentation. Walk with Rod Bryar on the outer edge of fame, immersed in music and never far from the sea.