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Issue Details: First known date: 2019... 2019 Brett Whiteley Partied With Bob Dylan. Now His Life Is an Opera.
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'Before Brett Whiteley died from a heroin overdose at 53 — alone, in a dingy motel room on the New South Wales coast — he lived like a rock star. He was Australia’s hedonist hero, a painter of grand and voluptuous canvases who hung out with Bob Dylan, Janis Joplin and Dire Straits.' (Introduction)

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  • Whiteley Justin Fleming , 2019 single work musical theatre
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