Behind Dark Eyes: The True Story of Jon English by Jeff Apter

Behind Dark Eyes: The True Story of Jon English by Jeff Apter

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Book Type: SECONDHAND
ISBN: 9781925868463
Author: Jeff Apter
Edition: 1st Edition
Publisher: Woodlane Press
Place: Warriewood NSW
Year: 2021
Format: Softcover
Pages: 300 pages
Period: 20th and 21st Century

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Small mark on tail foredge.

Jon English (1949-2016)was the original multitasker. He was the pop star with the raccoon eyes who sang such hits as Hollywood Seven, Six Ribbons and Hot Town, and the rocker in leather duds who packed beer barns across Australia.

Jon was also the swashbuckling Pirate King in the hugely successful Pirates of Penzance and, in the words of Tim Rice, a brilliantly judged and truly exciting Judas in Jesus Christ Superstar. On the small screen, he was as comfortable portraying faded rocker Bobby Rivers in All Together Now as he was the brooding convict Jonathan Garrett in Against the Wind.

It seemed that no role, or song, was beyond his reach. But there was a lot more to Jon English. He was a proud father of four who married his high school sweetheart Carmen when he was barely out of his teens. He was such a diehard fan of rugby league's Parramatta Eels that he wrote their team song. And Jon was also a composer whose rock opera, Paris, proved to be the biggest creative and personal challenge of his life.

This authorised biography, written with the full support of Jon's family, friends and peers, Behind Dark Eyes tells the complete Jon English story, swinging from the massive highs of Jesus Christ Superstar and pop stardom to his struggles with alcohol and depression, and his tragic, untimely death in 2016 at the age of 66. (back cover)

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