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y separately published work icon Sex and Thugs and Rock 'n' Roll : A Year in Kings Cross 1963-1964 single work   autobiography  
Issue Details: First known date: 1996... 1996 Sex and Thugs and Rock 'n' Roll : A Year in Kings Cross 1963-1964
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'Billy Thorpe is an Australian rock legend, but in 1963 he was a 17 year old singer fresh out of Brisbane, who arrived in Sydney's Kings Cross ready to crack the big time. Through his eyes we see the Cross at a unique moment in its history, and Australia on the threshold of an astonishing new wave of youth culture.

'For Billy it's a tantalising and dangerous new world and soon finds his life turned upside-down by an erotic menage a trois and a murder. And if that's not enough, he joins a group called the Aztecs and within twelve months they have a national No. 1 hit.'

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Works about this Work

A Hoon by Any Other Name ... Bruce Moore , 2008 single work column
— Appears in: Ozwords , October vol. 17 no. 2 2008; (p. 10-11)
A Hoon by Any Other Name ... Bruce Moore , 2008 single work column
— Appears in: Ozwords , October vol. 17 no. 2 2008; (p. 10-11)
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Subjects:
  • Kings Cross, Kings Cross area, Inner Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales,
  • 1963-1964
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