Warwick Mcfadyen
What a suite suite success
Warwick McFadyen In a ruling in the High Court late last week, Sir Andrew Morritt found for Pink Floyd in the band’s battle against record company EMI over the selling online of individual tracks from their albums.
Money, money, money
Warwick McFadyen Money, it's a gas Grab that cash with both hands And make a stash New car, caviar, four-star day dream Think I'll buy me a football team Money, it's a hit . . . It surely is, Pink, it surely is.
Attack of the killer mutant bees
Warwick McFadyen How many albums do you have stored away gathering the dust of neglect? It's not so much that they're unloved, just forgotten, and lost in the flood of new material.
From the valleys of Neptune, Hendrix plays
Warwick McFadyen Jimi Hendrix has a new album out in a few weeks. Jimi Hendrix has been dead for 40 years, come September. These are, of course, not mutually exclusive statements.
Bowled over in 12 minutes? Won't get fooled again
Warwick McFadyen I don't know much about American football, but I do know this: no country in the world, no alien force from deep space, will ever conquer a nation that has the ingenuity and wherewithal to transform...
Sometimes, the song is not the point
Warwick McFadyen What did the world do to deserve this? In separate events, pop stars have assembled in two countries to record charity singles. Hasn't there been enough of this type of thing over the years?
Notes of dischord in court case
Warwick McFadyen The decision by Justice Peter Jacobson in the Federal Court that Men at Work ripped off a large chunk of Kookaburra Sits in the Old Gum Tree for their song Down Under is perfectly correct.
Harness those black holes for good not evil
Warwick McFadyen The universe is more run down than anyone thought. Welcome to the club, universe. But it's not just I-feel-a-little-flat-this-morning rundown; it's 30 times more run down, according to researchers at...
Harness black holes for good, not evil
Warwick McFadyen Our universe might hold the answer to its own world-weariness.
For some people, every day alive is a miracle
Warwick McFadyen Just under the surface calm, death rubs against the skin. In an abstract sort of way, one is always aware of this. Everyone dies. That's life.
For some people, every day alive is another miracle
Warwick McFadyen Just under the surface calm, death rubs against the skin. In an abstract sort of way, one is always aware of this. Everyone dies. That's life.
Yule be surprised what Dylan has done for a good Claus
Warwick McFadyen Good Grief. Bob Dylan has turned into Louis Armstrong. Except Dylan isn't crooning What a Wonderful World, he's warbling, like a drunken crow, the carols of Christmas.
Tiny tots destroy serenity of the surreal
Warwick McFadyen The Salvador Dali exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria ends tomorrow.
The torture never stops: death by a hundred decibels
Warwick McFadyen What do these artists have in common? AC/DC, the Bee Gees, Britney Spears, Bruce Springsteen, Don McLean, Eminem, James Taylor, Pink, Prince, Queen, Metallica and Nine Inch Nails.
Albums in concert make it easy to face the tracks of my tears
Warwick McFadyen Have you ever been transported on waves of sound at a concert only to find yourself hurled against the rocks? A pained "What the heck" expires from your lips as the band launches into Song Obscura No.
I synch therefore I am ... Britney
Warwick McFadyen If you're a singer, wouldn't you want to sing? If you're one of the thousands of Britney Spears' fans, and even if you're not, then you must be aware that on this Circus tour of Australia, Spears is...
Taking the list out of the listener
Warwick McFadyen If there is one thing that will ensure the survival of humans in the face of impending doom it is this: we can compile lists. Forget quantum physics, that won't save us. Forget colonising the moon.
Sting's winter of content
Warwick McFadyen There are many windows through which one can view the House of Sting.
Spurred to action by Geldof's call to alms
Warwick McFadyen London, 1984. Look at them with their big hair and bigger self-importance. Trying to save the world when they're really trying to save their sinking careers.
Altamont: The day the music didn't die
Warwick McFadyen First the dawning, then the night. Almost four months ago, the 40th anniversary of Woodstock was celebrated; on December 6, comes Altamont, the rock festival often labelled as the satanic twin to the...
