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Salient. Victoria University Student Newspaper. Vol. 38, No. 6 April 10, 1975

Rock On?!*...**...yeah!

Rock On?!*...**...yeah!

Dear Sir,

Concerning that ubiquitous gentleman who, should we credit his own utterance, has the rare experience, has had these visitations, large winged lizards indulging their peregrinations around the inside of his head; concerning the stylish leader of our very own KCORROCK renaissance; concerning the king, no less, of the KCORROCK pages .... only a direct address will suffice me here: What are ya, Brian? Like, I mean it, many of us here in KCORROCK land are wondering. We spend our nights [unclear: o] churned up, trying not to play our borrowed copies of Elton John LPs, trying not, out of sheer perplexity, to stub cigarettes out in each others ears, trying not to cry out, falsetto 'Who's the man behind the smile? Who laughs like a Taniwha down the drains in town? With as you can sec, no more success than Uri Geller has, projecting Dragon in quadrophonic sound round the mountains of the moon.

Ah, but these stone-age dreams I have of you, maestro ... this is a fan letter, I cannot hide it. This last, shattering my sleep, with all the force of 15 Newman's buses, stuffed to the limit with pubescent Hawkes Bay schoolgirls, all on their way to Saxony, all with their knickers off and singing Do Wa Diddey Diddey, And you conducting madly from your tricycle and I kept asking, 'Where is Dustin Hoffman in all this? Where is he?' And on the corner a sad-eyed 30 year old peddling back copies of Rolling Stone ...

So that, the gist is, I got problems, we got problems and only you can help. Last Tango in the Populaire Milk Bar indeed; but can we somehow go outside of all this, sit for an hour on the ruined balcony above the sea, drip fat, gin-heavy tears on the programme nods and talk a little. Can we?

John Grimly

LYDIA, DAUGHTER OF HAAKON, NO LONER AVOIDS HIM, AND UNDER HER TENDER CARE, CONFINEMENT IS BEARABLE.