Nostalgia

Sifting through old piles of stuff continues. At the 1960s layer now, I marvel at the memories that gush forth. An old picture from Go-Set reminds me of wagging school to hang around their offices in St Kilda Road, and of the awe in which we then held Ian Meldrum. He was irresistibly gorgeous & fascinating, despite being gay. This picture from the web gives a very poor hint of his ineffable beauty. Such lusciousness was relatively rare in the Melbourne pop scene, so Molly was a veritable Adonis arrayed in the sharpest of sharp threads. His transformation into the venerable grandfather of Australian pop is a marvel of senescence.