John Lennon

  Image: EPA1971 was a tumultuous year. The counter-cultural movement of the 60s was still being felt. Demonstrations were held opposing the Vietnam War...

Today is the fortieth anniversary of the murder of John Lennon.There are so many debates still continuing on today about John Lennon – was...

   This review was originally posted on the first Toorak Times web site where publications ceased on that site in March 2017. The old...

Who broke up with whom?  Anurag Papolu/The Conversation via Getty Images Fifty years ago, when Paul McCartney announced he had left the Beatles, the news dashed...

It started out like a normal day for the man of the house. He had breakfast with his wife. She was no warmer or...

I sit in this room, this crumbling room I grew to love, cluttered by the mementoes of a crumbled life. Framed photographs of friends,...

The heavy decrepit bodies of the great and not so, mingled with their offsprings, children too young to realise that this too would be...

The trumpets that break the dawn A fanfare to the dying and unborn Passion replaced by duty Love replaced by fear And the ticking of the clock Says “Young...

She died in my arms Not a word was said In silence we rose And got out of our bed Her eyes would flash I knew them too well Every...

From the mansions of sadness To the bums on the street From the highways of loneliness To the halls of defeat I’ve watched your ascendance The road I never...