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Golden Miles, Sex, Speed and the Australian Muscle Car. A book about cars, people and place. Australia in the late-60s/early 70s was a young country bursting at the seams: charging out of a brief window of opportunity between the end of colonialism and the beginning of globalism
Wizard of Oz Speed, modernism and the last ride of Wizard Smith What really happened on that lonely beach? Clinton Walker lays bare the tragic fall from grace of Norman 'Wizard' Smith - an ordinary man lost to an extraordinary quest, and, until now, a forgotten figure.
'Arguably,' as John Birmingham put it, 'the country's best post-punk writer,' Walker is an historian who finds stories where others don't even bother to look, in our own backyard yesterday. For ABC-TV, he was the presenter of late night live music show Studio 22 and co-writer of the hit 2001 Oz-rockumentary series Long Way to the Top. For SBS, he wrote the documentary film version of his book Buried Country. He produced soundtrack CDs for all three shows, and for the expanded 2005 American edition of Inner City Sound. 'Feverish in his search for motifs and connections,' as John Clare put it in the Sun-Herald, 'he packs more detail and reaches wider than his rivals.'
Walker lives with his family in Sydney and is currently working on a sequel to Buried Country, and a graphic novel about Lionel Rose.
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