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  • Shake Some Action

  • My Life in Music (and Other Stuff)
  • By: Stuart Coupe
  • Narrated by: Stuart Coupe
  • Length: 12 hrs and 1 min

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Summary

First as a music writer and then as an editor, promoter, manager, broadcaster, publicist and author, Stuart Coupe has experienced the giddy highs and crushing lows of a life lived in the creative fast lane. Shake Some Action is your backstage pass to his remarkable story, from starting his first magazine at the age of fourteen to hoovering heroic amounts of cocaine before interviewing Boy Dylan (who asked him where he got his drugs from). From getting garbage bags full of fan (and hate) mail as the music critic for the teen magazine phenomenon Dolly to managing the Hoodoo Gurus and Paul Kelly - he has been at the centre of Australian cultural life for over four decades.

This is a book about fandom. About excitement. About some very bad behaviour. About writing. About talking. About being driven. About loving music and words and trying to explain that love to others - and having a myriad of adventures and encounters in the process.

This is the wild life and times of the a man who has never anything by halves. Get ready to kick out the jams!

©2023 Stuart Coupe (P)2023 Penguin Random House Australia
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