| Name |
Clinton Walker |
| Birth Year |
1957 |
| Comments |
Clinton was born in Bendigo, Victoria in 1957, grew up in Melbourne and dropped
out of art school in Brisbane in the mid-seventies. He then started writing
record reviews for the Queenland Uni paper "Semper", and started a punk
fanzine called "Pulp" with Bruce Milne in 1977. Clinton moved to Melbourne and
worked as a volunteer announcer for 3RRR and started writing for "Roadrunner". Moving to Sydney in 1980, he started writing for "RAM", "Rolling Stone" and "The Adelaide Advertiser". His first book "Inner City Sound" was
published by Wild & Woolley in 1981. After a brief stint in the UK, Clinton returned to write for "The Age" and "Stiletto". His second book, "The Next Thing", was published by Kangaroo Press in 1984. For much of the rest of the eighties he freelanced for most of the quality papers and magazines in the country; Clinton also wrote two documentaries for ABC-TV, "Notes from Home", a pocket history of Australian popular music, and "Sing it in the Music", a history of Aboriginal popular music.
In 1986, Walker formed hillbilly-grunge band, "The Killer Sheep", which played Tamworth and recorded the single "Wild Down Home" for Au-Go-Go Records, before he left to travel America extensively. In 1988, Walker kicked a heroin habit, and joined first "The Edge" and then "Playboy" as Features Editor. Walker was also involved from the beginning with the Big Day Out, and in 1994, when his first child was born, Pan Macmillan published "Highway to Hell", his biography of Bon Scott; in 1995, it was published in Britain by Sidgwick & Jackson and is at present being prepared for publication in the US by Verse-Chorus Press. In 1996, Pan Macmillan published "Stranded". In
1998 Walker resigned from Rolling Stone (making him the longest-serving Rolling Stone contributing editor), and started work on ABC-TV's documentary series on the history of Australian rock'n'roll. At the same time, after several years
research, Walker signed a contract with Pluto Press to publish "Buried Country",
and got up through Film Australia/SBS-TV the documentary film of the same
name, which will also have an accompanying soundtrack released through
Festival Records. He is at present serving as co-presenter with Annette
Shun-Wah of Studio 22 on ABC-TV and proposing several other book/documentary ideas. A very busy guy, Clinton also moonlights writing really useful emails to annoying media students for their bonza projects. |
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