Table of Contents

Contents

Introduction 5
Vinyl with pictures: the beginning 12
Postcards from the edge of the world 16
Country and southern hemisphere 26
We cross live to the Westward Ho Tavern 36
Shaun at Wairakei 42
Richard at home 46
Making it look easy 48
The age of Jack and Garth 60
Albums of colour: Aotearoa and Pasifika 69
The golden age of pop art 87
The horror, the horror 109
Dear God 112
That 70s look 118
Ready to roll, brightly 134
Through a glass, darkly 147
Pieces of art 154
Acknowledgements 164
Discography 165
Index 166

Reviews

'Braunias’ writing, in a chunky preface and separate essays with many of the covers, is often marvellous and brought to colourful life through encounters with the artists themselves or elderly eye witnesses.' Colin Hogg, Newsroom