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Robert Forster Robert Forster i(A99735 works by)
Born: Established: 1957 Brisbane, Queensland, ;
Gender: Male
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1 The Band We Might Still Be Waiting For Robert Forster , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: The Saturday Age , 20-21 August 2016; (p. 17)

— Review of Grant and I : Inside and Outside The Go-Betweens Robert Forster , 2016 single work autobiography
1 9 y separately published work icon Grant and I : Inside and Outside The Go-Betweens Robert Forster , Melbourne : Penguin , 2016 9481466 2016 single work autobiography

'Grant and I is the story of the friendship and collaboration of Grant McLennan and Robert Forster, who gave Australia The Go-Betweens, one of our best and most influential bands. The 1980s songwriting partnership of McLennan/Forster was a little like an Australian Lennon/McCartney. The pair wrote all the band's distinctively original material and, like their more famous counterparts, shared the credits and alternated on lead vocals; both also played guitar. They formed The Go-Betweens in Brisbane in 1977, in possibly the quirkiest of all rock-band beginnings, before disbanding in 1989. A second incarnation, with Robert and Grant the constant in both lineups, endured from 2000 to 2006, the year of Grant's premature death. a Grant and I is an extraordinary portrait of an intense, creative, sometimes fraught friendship that represented a genuine meeting of artistic minds. Robert and Grant were arts undergraduates at Queensland uni in the seventies, where they bonded through a shared passion for literature and film. ' (Publication summary)

1 Inside the Go-Betweens Robert Forster , 2016 single work essay
— Appears in: Underline , December no. 1 2016; (p. 20-21)
'Five surprising facts about The Go-Betweens, from Robert Forster's unforgettable memoir Grant & I.'
1 Three Songs Robert Forster , 2009 single work autobiography
— Appears in: Vagabond Holes : David McComb and the Triffids 2009; (p. 25-28)
1 The Uncorking Robert Forster , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: The Monthly , May no. 34 2008; (p. 62-64)

— Review of Thirteen Tonne Theory : Life inside Hunters and Collectors Mark Seymour , 2008 single work autobiography
1 A West Side Story Robert Forster , 2007 single work review
— Appears in: The Monthly , February no. 20 2007; (p. 50-51)

— Review of Keating! A Country Soul Opera Casey Bennetto , 2005 single work musical theatre
1 The Coronation of Normie Rowe Robert Forster , 2006 single work short story
— Appears in: Meanjin , vol. 65 no. 3 2006; (p. 48-52)
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