OBSERVER: Richard Clapton
Richard Clapton is performingThe Best Years of Our Lives show at 7.30pm on Friday, August 1 at The Palms At Crown, Southbak.
He is celebrating 50+ years on stage, and performing a songbook featured in the soundtrack to almost three generations of Australians, including Trust Somebody, I Am an Island, Girls on the Avenue, Goodbye Tiger, Capricorn Dancer, Down in the Lucky Country, Deep Water, High Society, Blue Bay Blues, and Glory Road and Angelou. Richard Clapton, as one of Australia’s foremost singer/songwriters, paved the way for subsequent generations of songwriters to write about the experience of being Australian.
He grew up in Sydney in the 1960s before hopping a plane for London, and then later to Germany, where he wrote a first album, Prussian Blue (1973) which was one of the first major Australian ‘singer-songwriter’ albums.
One of the most popular songs from Prussian Blue was I Wanna Be a Survivor. His songs are still omnipresent on the radio to this day; his records charting the political landscape of the nation and the turbulent lives of two generations.
He has released over 20 albums which have cumulatively sold over one million copies. He is the only rock artist to have received an Australia Council arts grant which enabled him to travel around the world writing new songs based on his experiences. Bookings: Ticketmaster.com.au
Di Rolle

