From his early teens, Peter Head has played 'em all. Strip joints, rodeos, clubs aglitz and gone to seed, sideshow alley, off the grid rude-boy clubs, sharpie pubs, speedways, remote US bases, ocean-going passenger liners ... and with everyone from John Farnham to the Rolling Stones, Elton John, Bon Scott, the Bee Gees, Robyn Archer, Wendy Saddington, Jimmy Little, Keith Moon, John Mayall, the Angels, Jeff St John, Cold Chisel and hillsides of others.
Along the way, encounters with larger than lifers, from Abe Saffron to former SA premier Don Dunstan, on a trip from the Adelaide of the 1960s to London to the crimehubs of 70s St Kilda and Sydney to north of the Tweed to the Top End.
It’s a life lived head on, a ride you won’t want to end.
Praise:
‘Left hand driving, right hand smoking’
- Don Walker
‘Look at that sharp cat at the end of the bar. He’d have some tales, I bet.’
– Tim Freedman
‘A feast for lovers of music history.’
- Buzz Bidstrup
‘Smooth as an oil slick, Peter Head, the King of the Cross, has seen it all, played with them all, and slipped away unscathed.’
- Tex Perkins
