Wednesday 13 July, One2One Cafe, 121 Ponsonby Road (the old Atomic Cafe)8pm to 8.30pm
John Hanlon
Author and singer songwriter John Hanlon was once a regular feature
on our airwaves. He dominated New Zealand’s Record Awards during the mid 70s,
collecting Album of Year and Songwriter
of the Year awards three years in succession, a feat never achieved by
any other artist before or since. He also won the APRA Silver Scroll two years in succession.
Hanlon’s iconic protest song Damn
the Dam and the jaunty pop beat of Lovely Lady still send shivers down the spine of Baby
Boomers.
John Hanlon, Author
John Hanlon’s
first book GOLF: A COURSE IN LIFE was released in 2012. Hanlon
was also ‘one of the 47 Kiwi blokes around long
enough to know what’s wrong with the world’ to contribute to Paul Little and Dorothy Dudek
Vinicombe’s GRUMPY OLD MEN compilation.
His new book LOVE & MAGIC, Four extraordinary tales about ordinary people will be available from Amazon, Book Depository, all major e-book retailers and
selected bookstores.
The Book: LOVE &
MAGIC
Four whimsical stories, with a twist in their tale.
Love and Magic (NZ
RRP: $19.99, Launch date: 13 July) is releasing first as an e-book, with
digital print options for those who love the smell and feel of a real book available
in selected bookstores.
These four magical tales offer
a sneak preview of Hanlon’s short story compilation, a larger book, scheduled
for release in early 2017 and which will be sold through bookshops nationwide.
John Hanlon: about
the author
At least two generations of New Zealanders
have been born since Hanlon was
a regular feature on our airwaves. Those old enough to remember him will recall
songs like the iconic protest song Damn the Dam, the soaring melody
of Higher Trails and jaunty pop beat of Lovely Lady.
True fans would be aware that he dominated
New Zealand’s Record Awards during the mid 70s collecting Album of Year and Songwriter of the Year
awards three years in succession, a feat never achieved by any other
artist before or since. As well, he won the APRA Silver Scroll two years in succession.
Born in Kuala Lumpur, Malaya, to a Chinese mother and a New Zealander
father of Swedish/Irish/Scottish extraction, Hanlon was Eurasian ‘way before it
was fashionable’.
He was raised variously in a
peaceful seaside village in Howick, Auckland, the spice-scented bustle of
post-war Singapore, the transported Englishness of a West Australian boarding
school and the adventure-filled environs of an iron mine deep in the jungle of
Malaya.Reaching adulthood in Auckland, he trained as a graphic artist and began to earn a living briefly as a cartoonist but mostly as an Art Director in Advertising. In the early 70s, just as he was morphing into an advertising copywriter, he accidentally became a Pop Star.
Then
at the peak of his fame in New Zealand, Hanlon opted to leave the limelight. He
moved to Australia where
he worked as a cartoonist, copywriter and art director
and was a creative partner of a Sydney communications agency, LOUD, for over 20
years.
Now he is back in his beloved New Zealand,
living on Auckland’s wild West Coast and enjoying
exploring less certain creative pursuits like writing fiction, song-writing and
painting.
For more about John Hanlon and
his work, visit johnhanlon.co.nz.
1 comment:
DAMN THE DAM was well ahead of its time.
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