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Clinton Walker
Clinton Walker is an Australian writer, best known for his works on popular music. He wrote the books Highway to Hell (1994; a biography of Bon Scott), Buried Country (2000), History is Made at Night (2012), and others. He has also written on other subjects, in books such as Football Life (1998) and Golden Miles (2005), and has worked as a journalist.
Born in Bendigo, Victoria, in 1957, Walker dropped out of art school in Brisbane in the late 70s to start a punk fanzine with Andrew McMillan and to write for student newspapers.
In 1978, Walker moved to Melbourne, where he worked on-air for 3RRR, and with Bruce Milne on the fanzine Pulp and wrote for the fledgling Roadrunner magazine.
Moving on to Sydney in 1980, he commenced a career as a freelance journalist, and for many years he wrote for numerous magazines and newspapers, including RAM and Australian Rolling Stone, as well as The Bulletin, The Age, New Woman, Playboy, and Juice.
Walker published his first book, Inner City Sound, in 1981. It documented the emergence of independent Australian punk/post-punk music and quickly fell out of print but was re-released in 2006 in an expanded, updated edition, along with an accompanying CD anthology.
In 1984, after a couple of years in London, Walker returned to Australia and published his second book, The Next Thing.
Walker's third book, Highway to Hell, was a biography of Bon Scott (1994).
Walker then published Stranded: The Secret History of Australian Independent Music 1977–1991 (1996) and Football Life (1998). Stranded was republished in 2021 by the Visible Spectrum in a new updated global edition. Des Cowley in his review in Rhythms Magazine said: "Reading Stranded today with a quarter-century’s hindsight, it’s easy to see that Walker mostly got things right. And if he stumbled now and again, it’s still the case he was streaks ahead of the pack." Football Life was similarly a personal history but covered minor-league Australian Rules culture.
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Clinton Walker
Clinton Walker is an Australian writer, best known for his works on popular music. He wrote the books Highway to Hell (1994; a biography of Bon Scott), Buried Country (2000), History is Made at Night (2012), and others. He has also written on other subjects, in books such as Football Life (1998) and Golden Miles (2005), and has worked as a journalist.
Born in Bendigo, Victoria, in 1957, Walker dropped out of art school in Brisbane in the late 70s to start a punk fanzine with Andrew McMillan and to write for student newspapers.
In 1978, Walker moved to Melbourne, where he worked on-air for 3RRR, and with Bruce Milne on the fanzine Pulp and wrote for the fledgling Roadrunner magazine.
Moving on to Sydney in 1980, he commenced a career as a freelance journalist, and for many years he wrote for numerous magazines and newspapers, including RAM and Australian Rolling Stone, as well as The Bulletin, The Age, New Woman, Playboy, and Juice.
Walker published his first book, Inner City Sound, in 1981. It documented the emergence of independent Australian punk/post-punk music and quickly fell out of print but was re-released in 2006 in an expanded, updated edition, along with an accompanying CD anthology.
In 1984, after a couple of years in London, Walker returned to Australia and published his second book, The Next Thing.
Walker's third book, Highway to Hell, was a biography of Bon Scott (1994).
Walker then published Stranded: The Secret History of Australian Independent Music 1977–1991 (1996) and Football Life (1998). Stranded was republished in 2021 by the Visible Spectrum in a new updated global edition. Des Cowley in his review in Rhythms Magazine said: "Reading Stranded today with a quarter-century’s hindsight, it’s easy to see that Walker mostly got things right. And if he stumbled now and again, it’s still the case he was streaks ahead of the pack." Football Life was similarly a personal history but covered minor-league Australian Rules culture.