A series looking at the evolution of rock and pop in Australia over the past 60-odd years. The title of the series, What’s Been Did And What’s Been Hid, is borrowed from a song by the great Donovan Leitch, who I hope won’t mind, and is so-called because, while it naturally looks at the obvious “highlights”, from Australia’s “first” rock’n’roll star, Johnny O’Keefe through The Bee Gees and The Easybeats to AC/DC, Men At Work and INXS to Savage Garden and so on, each volume looks at the other artists and acts whose creativity not only provided a multiplicity of records, some gems, some best forgotten, many treasured the world over by collectors and fans alike, but also were the musical context within which those artists and acts that did make it worked and therefore were as influential in the development of those artists and acts as the records they were listening to from the UK and the USA. The other things these volumes hope to provide is the broader social context within which this remarkable musical legacy was created and just how far that legacy actually reached, how very much more of it impacted on the musical scenes in the UK and the USA – and Europe – than most people realise.
source: publisher's blurb
