Post by tonyloco on Nov 28, 2019 18:55:15 GMT
I would just like to pay tribute to my fellow Australian, the critic, writer and TV personality Clive James who died a few days ago.
I first met Clive in Sydney in 1958 when I was playing piano for the annual Sydney University Revue. He contributed some material to the revue and also wrote for the University newspaper Honi Soit.
We both came to London in the early 1960s and I rescued him from a ghastly bed-sitting room in Tufnell Park when he moved in to share my flat in Marylebone for about six months before he went to Cambridge University.
I introduced him to opera at Covent Garden (a genre to which he took with great gusto), and he taught me a lot about jazz, American movies of the 1930s and 40s (which we used to go to see at the National Film Theatre), and other cultural things like poetry and literature.
Life with Clive was never dull and I am grateful for the companionship we shared for that brief time.
Our lives moved apart but I was a great fan of his newspaper TV reviews and his TV programmes and we picked up our contact again by email in the last few years.
A unique voice is now silent forever.
I first met Clive in Sydney in 1958 when I was playing piano for the annual Sydney University Revue. He contributed some material to the revue and also wrote for the University newspaper Honi Soit.
We both came to London in the early 1960s and I rescued him from a ghastly bed-sitting room in Tufnell Park when he moved in to share my flat in Marylebone for about six months before he went to Cambridge University.
I introduced him to opera at Covent Garden (a genre to which he took with great gusto), and he taught me a lot about jazz, American movies of the 1930s and 40s (which we used to go to see at the National Film Theatre), and other cultural things like poetry and literature.
Life with Clive was never dull and I am grateful for the companionship we shared for that brief time.
Our lives moved apart but I was a great fan of his newspaper TV reviews and his TV programmes and we picked up our contact again by email in the last few years.
A unique voice is now silent forever.
