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Richard Clapton To Perform Complete ‘Goodbye Tiger’

by Music-News.com on May 1, 2018

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Richard Clapton will perform his classic 70s masterpiece ‘Goodbye Tiger’ for one night only in Sydney in October.

‘Goodbye Tiger’ is one of the most important Australian releases of the 70s. The album came during a rapid growth period in Australian music where the songs, the perform and the production all started to come together and ready to challenge the world.

The title track of ‘Goodbye Tiger’ started on a day in 1977 when Hunter S. Thompson was visiting Sydney and was completed after a drunken flight to Berlin.

While Clapton himself was torn apart personally and emotionally at the time, he managed to channel all of those feelings into the songs that eventually became this album.

Goodbye Tiger

‘Goodbye Tiger’ generated two songs now deemed Oz rock classics. ‘Deep Water’ and ‘Down In The Lucky Country’.

Deep Water

Richard was always amused that many people took ‘Down In The Lucky Country’ to mean the complete opposite of its intent. It was mistaken as a song about the virtues of simple Australian living. Instead, it was about ignorance of the political agenda and basic materialistic urges.

Down In The Luck Country

Richard Clapton will perform ‘Goodbye Tiger’ and his greatest hits at Sydney’s Enmore Theatre on 20 October 2018.

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