Category: Features – Archive

October 26, 2022 / Features - Archive

Many people would have given up, but not Stephen Schwartz. When, by the age of 24, the composer and lyricist had three hit musicals (including Godspell and Pippin) running in New York simultaneously, he never imagined a quarter-century drought would follow, before Wicked finally showered him with fresh Broadway success…

October 22, 2022 / Features - Archive

Al Di Meola could have been just another among thousands of children whom the Beatles inspired to play guitar. Instead he also studied jazz, and turned himself into a virtuoso best known for genre-crossing between electric jazz and flamenco fusion. But the Beatles’ music always remained close to his heart.…

October 3, 2022 / Features - Archive

A teenaged Renee Geyer had just recorded her first album in 1972 when the band with which she made it, Sun, fired her for not taking the music seriously enough. Her subsequent career soared to the forefront of Australian popular music, while Sun died within two years. But if that…