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Issue Details: First known date: 2012... 2012 Paul Kelly : Stories of Me
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'Paul Kelly: Stories of Me charts the many lives, loves and losses of Paul Kelly, one of Australia's most gifted singer-songwriters. Kelly has been marking out the Australian landscape and its people through words and music for almost 40 years.

'The sixth of nine children, a former altar boy, dux of his school, sports champion and grandson of two famous opera singers, Kelly began playing guitar at the age of 12. Since then, he has penned over 350 songs on themes of love, sex, death, family, friends and places, drawing on an enormous number of heroes - literary, musical, artistic and sporting - for his inspiration, and begging, borrowing and stealing from all of them. His songs are landscapes; charting not just the physical terrain but the emotional landscapes he and his contemporaries have walked through.

'He is a storyteller, a poet, and has the unique ability to communicate with all Australians, across all age groups and gender. Collaborating with indigenous musicians, young performers, and artists of all genres, Kelly has created some of the most important songs of our times.

'Paul Kelly has lived through failure and he has the songs to show for it. Although a very private person in a public career, Stories of Me digs deeply into what makes Paul Kelly tick, revealing the man and his music for the first time. And the poet who lurks inside all of us.'

Source: Paul Kelly: The Movie website, http://www.paulkellythemovie.com.au/
Sighted: 25/10/2012

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Works about this Work

Joining the Dots : Paul Kelly Sings About Place Nathanael O'Reilly , 2013 single work criticism
— Appears in: Telling Stories : Australian Life and Literature 1935–2012 2013; (p. 425-430)
Songs Help Tell Story of Much-Loved Artist Tony Squires , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 25 October 2013; (p. 29) The Age , 25 October 2013; (p. 33)

— Review of Paul Kelly : Stories of Me 2012 single work film/TV
Man About Town Rhys Muldoon , 2013 single work column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 28 June 2013; (p. 2)
Magnetic Screen Presence Helps Doco on Paul Kelly and the Gang Jake Wilson , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 8 November 2012; (p. 18)

— Review of Paul Kelly : Stories of Me 2012 single work film/TV
Meatier Than Gravy-Train Docos Garry Maddox , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: The Sun-Herald , 28 October 2012; (p. 4)

— Review of Paul Kelly : Stories of Me 2012 single work film/TV
Inspirational Yes, but Definitely No Saint Sandra Hall , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 25 October 2012; (p. 22)

— Review of Paul Kelly : Stories of Me 2012 single work film/TV
Meatier Than Gravy-Train Docos Garry Maddox , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: The Sun-Herald , 28 October 2012; (p. 4)

— Review of Paul Kelly : Stories of Me 2012 single work film/TV
Magnetic Screen Presence Helps Doco on Paul Kelly and the Gang Jake Wilson , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 8 November 2012; (p. 18)

— Review of Paul Kelly : Stories of Me 2012 single work film/TV
Songs Help Tell Story of Much-Loved Artist Tony Squires , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 25 October 2013; (p. 29) The Age , 25 October 2013; (p. 33)

— Review of Paul Kelly : Stories of Me 2012 single work film/TV
Songs That Speak to Us Cris Kennedy , 2012 single work column
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 25 August 2012; (p. 6-7)
Kelly Gang's Ghosts Garry Maddox , 2012 single work column
— Appears in: The Sun-Herald , 21 October 2012; (p. 12) The Sunday Age , 21 October 2012; (p. 8-9)
Poetry in Motion Garry Maddox , 2012 single work biography
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 25 October 2012; (p. 1-2)
Man About Town Rhys Muldoon , 2013 single work column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 28 June 2013; (p. 2)
Joining the Dots : Paul Kelly Sings About Place Nathanael O'Reilly , 2013 single work criticism
— Appears in: Telling Stories : Australian Life and Literature 1935–2012 2013; (p. 425-430)
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