Filling in the Gaps (2015)
“Nothing in my life has ever been, and probably never will be, just on a nice even plane - there were always extreme highs and some awfully sad lows and this continued in Sydney. Sydney was and still is the biggest city in Australia but at that time it would have been more like the size of San Diego today - about 1.5 million people. I was very excited because Sydney was where all of the big stars of the day visited - they seldom ventured as far as Perth or even Melbourne at times. Stars like Sarah Vaughan, Judy Garland, Tony Martin, Shirley Bassey, Nelson Eddy, Gail Sherwood and Liza Minelli. Sadly I never got to see such stars in the flesh until a few years later when I met many of my idols.
My dad and I still had relationship issues - so sad for me because I loved him so much and wanted, needed, his approval of everything I did, but I couldn’t ever seem to live up to his expectations of me. His brothers all had sons who were either footballers or involved in masculine pursuits, w...hilst I sat alone in a cinema or in my room with the door locked playing musicals over and over.MoreLess
My dad and I still had relationship issues - so sad for me because I loved him so much and wanted, needed, his approval of everything I did, but I couldn’t ever seem to live up to his expectations of me. His brothers all had sons who were either footballers or involved in masculine pursuits, w...hilst I sat alone in a cinema or in my room with the door locked playing musicals over and over.MoreLess
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