This was the world of Inpress – rough and raw but real. To celebrate The Music s street press archive launch, music journalist Jeff Jenkins explores the history of Inpress.
This was the world of Inpress – rough and raw but real. To celebrate The Music s street press archive launch, music journalist Jeff Jenkins explores the history of Inpress.
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Words by Bryget Chrisfield
Vale Michael Gudinski, August 22 1952 – March 02 2021.
Probably the photo that was most commonly used to honour Michael Gudinski’s sudden passing within Instagram grids was a black-and-white portrait of The Godfather Of Australian Rock’n’Roll with pointer finger raised skyward to indicate ‘number one’.
Throughout the course of his career, Gudinski was often pictured jubilantly throwing up this same hand gesture alongside chart-topping artists from the Mushroom Records artist roster and/or the teams that worked on their respective records.
Gudinski was last spotted in the wild by this scribe walking with purpose – straight back, long stride – up in Sidney Myer Music Bowl’s stage-left balcony. He was at the Missy Higgins edition of 2021 Sounds Better Together – a series of COVIDSafe concerts put on by Mushroom Group in partnership with Visit Victoria – and had probably just visited Higgins backstage to say ‘chookas’ or initiate