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Shout! : The Story of Johnny O'Keefe
Sydney
:
Currency Press
,
1986
Z1831139
1986
single work
screenplay
'Tough, pushy, passionate and desperate to be loved, Sydney's Johnny O'Keefe in the 50s fought his way to the top to become the King, Australia's first international star of rock and roll. At a time when Australia was a provincial outpost of America, when sex was out of bounds and Bill Haley and Elvis Presley were everyone's heroes, JO'K captured a generation who called him the Wild One. In a two-part tele-series View Pictures and Network 7 have recreated the explosive energy, the suppressed passion, the rising drug culture, the corrupt innocence of a period that brought the King tragically to an early death.'
Source: Publisher's blurb
