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Badass Billy Thorpe.It just isn't done like this anymore.

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Billy Thorpe went to the same high school as me. He was about 4 or 5 years older and had left school to a successful career in rock and roll. A few years after he offered a free gig to the students but the fascist principle rejected him as his hair was "too long and all musicians are drug addicts" This was in the early 70's. Queensland, Australia was full of absolute weirdo right wing fascist's back then and that High School principle was one of them. A bloke I worked with married the principle's daughter, so I found out many years later, and when I told him that story he laughed and said that his wife disliked her father and even in retirement he was still a fascist and carried on about long hair.

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It isn't fair that my generation can't see gigs like that.

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Back then?What has changed?

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Haa haa! though in reply lots actually. I have too long a memory as to the corrupt bastards that run this state with a gerrymander getting them in election after election and treating the place as if it was there own plantation. The Stranglers wrote a song about Bjelke Peterson called The Wizard Of Oz. They toured in the late 70's. I had the pleasure of attendance at both gigs, and they thought they had come to red neck paradise and were appalled.
The day Bjelke Perterson died I had no remorse in drinking a bottle of fine red in celebration of that **** dying a horrible death. A known fact is that he was a Nazi supporter in WWII.

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