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No Secrets

Graham ‘Buzz’ Bidstrup

Harper Collins, $35.99

Teenaged me would have killed to get backstage at an Angels gig. This was the band that upended my world. Behind that curtain of blinding, deafening electricity and sometimes terrifying theatre was the secret, I was sure, to escaping the dull grey hamster wheel of working life.

No Secrets would have been a deflating read for that kid. Behind face-melting frontman Doc Neeson, ace drummer Graham ‘Buzz’ Bidstrup was part of a truly transcendent hard-rock dream machine. But offstage, he was the pragmatist counting the cost as carefully as he was keeping time.

As per his later years as producer, manager, agent, songwriter, hired gun and all-round mover-shaker, the Adelaide musician is more your clear-eyed chronicler than rock

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