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Issue Details: First known date: 1999... 1999 What Rhymes with Cars and Girls
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Debut solo studio album from You Am I frontman Tim Rogers, which was later adapted into a stage musical by Aidan Fennessy (supported by a live band fronted by Rogers).

Adaptations

What Rhymes with Cars & Girls Aidan Fennessy , Tim Rogers (composer), 2015 single work musical theatre

'His achingly lyrical first solo album, What Rhymes with Cars and Girls, cemented You Am I frontman Tim Rogers’ already formidable reputation as one of Australia’s premier songwriters. Playwright Aidan Fennessy has threaded these beautiful songs across the class divide to create a tale of love in contemporary Australia.

'This is the ballad of Tash and Johnno, brought together by a conjunction of the stars and a pizza delivery gone weird. Tash is a smart-mouthed singer in a band and Johnno’s a three-time loser from the wrong side of the tracks. But, what do you know? It’s love. Almighty love. With an authentic catch and pain in it, like a song in the throat of one who knows how it goes. Knows how love can lift you high and dash you down. Knows that it’s never the coming together, it’s the holding on.

'What Rhymes with Cars and Girls is a raw, complex, urban romance, a balm for the hardest of hearts and solace for anyone who’s ever been in love.' (Production summary)

Notes

  • This album is included in AustLit because of an Australian-written adaptation.

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