John Farnham's Whispering Jack

Professor or Dr. Graeme Turner (Emeritus Professor, University of Queensland, Australia)

John Farnham's Whispering Jack
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Country
United States
Published
30 June 2022
Pages
128
ISBN
9781501382062

John Farnham’s Whispering Jack

Professor or Dr. Graeme Turner (Emeritus Professor, University of Queensland, Australia)

The album examined in this book transformed the singer John Farnham from a faded teen pop star into the most popular solo rock performer in Australia, in a career that has lasted for more than 30 years. Whispering Jack remains the top-selling album by an Australian artist in Australia, and constitutes the turning point in Farnham’s bid to achieve credibility as an adult contemporary musician. The first single from the album, ‘You’re the Voice,’ has achieved such iconic status that it is routinely referred to as Australia’s unofficial national anthem. The book examines the album, its context and that history in order to recover a crucial conjuncture in the development of Australian rock and popular music, one that has previously been ignored in Australian popular music studies.

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