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Twelve-year-old Richard Glover with his Elvis collection.

I was 12 years old again and sobbing at the end of this film

The years between childhood and adulthood are difficult. You’re trying to locate your own identity. Life at home, for some people, is full of misery.

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Michael Paynter

Arise Superstar: Meet the Australian performer taking on John Farnham

The casting of John Farnham for the upcoming world premiere of Whispering Jack: The John Farnham Musical has been revealed.

  • Linda Morris
John Farnham

Todd McKenney’s advice for the next Aussie biopic star

Having played the late Peter Allen in a staggering 1076 performances of The Boy from Oz, McKenney knows the pressure of taking on a national treasure.

  • Andrew Hornery
Record producers Ernie Rose (left) and Roger Savage, with researcher and author John Olson (right) outside the former Armstrong Studios site in South Melbourne.

Australia’s ‘Abbey Road’ produced a generation of musical genius. It’ll never happen again

Armstrong Studios – later AAV and Metropolis – produced countless hits and a generation of producers and audio engineers. Roger Savage doubts Australia will have anything like it again.

  • Cassandra Morgan
Nagi Maehashi with her latest cookbook, which won Illustrated Book of the Year 2025.

Nagi Maehashi, John Farnham and Richard Scolyer win at book awards

A week after a row over recipes, Nagi Maehashi’s Tonight beats Bake with Brooki at the Australian Book Industry Awards.

  • Kerrie O'Brien

Kate Ceberano: ‘Michael Hutchence climbed on my balcony one night … and stayed for breakfast’

On her latest tour, Kate Ceberano will share stories from her remarkable career. And, as she tells Fitzy, there are many tales to tell.

  • Peter FitzSimons
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The disturbing details of Farnham’s abuse is detailed in his upcoming memoir.

‘He drugged me for years’: Farnham details early abuse by manager

In his upcoming memoir, John Farnham reveals his manager’s abuse, why he supported the Voice referendum, meeting his wife and how he nearly adopted a child.

  • Angus Delaney
Farnham in full voice at One Electric Day on Cockatoo Island, Sydney, in 2019. “The good news is my vocal cords haven’t been affected by the radiation treatment I’ve had – yet,” he says now.

‘Terrified’: John Farnham bares all about his surgery, dark thoughts – and voice

Addiction, oral cancer, facial disfigurement, the loss of his great friend Glenn Wheatley … the musical legend has been through a lot in recent times.

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The October 19 Edition

Exclusive: John Farnham opens up on cancer, surgery and his greatest fear | Indies 2.0: gearing up for election time | The healing power of foster parent love

Rob and John Farnham. John Farnham has voiced his memoir due out later this month.

John Farnham’s voice heard for the first time publicly in years

John Farnham has narrated an upcoming memoir, with his publisher releasing a sample of what his voice sounds like today.

  • Thomas Mitchell