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MICHAEL SOLOMON GUDINSKI: 1952-2021
By 1974, the yardstick for album sales by a local act in this country was the 60,00O or so achieved by the first Daddy Cool effort three years before. Nobody was presuming that it could go much higher. Apart, that is, from Michael Gudinski.
At the age of 22, this powerhouse of Russian Jewish descent, an alumni of Mt Scopus College and a former teenage dance promoter and band roadie, had established in 1970 the Consolidated Rock artist agency with Michael Browning (who would become the first AC/DC manager), the pair later founding the short-lived music magazine