UNDERTOW by LEONARD COHEN. Love story by Rijn Collins.
Rijn Collins Melbourne, 2016I know little about Cohen, but I’m learning about you. You tell me a story as we drive, and I turn towards you, my hands out to catch the falling words.
UNITED WE STAND by BROTHERHOOD OF MAN Story by Sue O’Brien
By the late 1980s, United We Stand had definitely moved into the extremely daggy category but there was just something about it that got the crowd going at The Candy. During the first verse, Irene would swan through the crowd trying not to strangle patrons along the way with what the girls deemed was the longest microphone cord in the history of the world.
UNTIL THE GOOD IS GONE by LITTLE STEVEN AND THE DISCIPLES OF SOUL. Story by Paul Dufficy.
Steve and I are driving from Kempsey to Crescent Head in 1972 at about 9pm and the local DJ at 2KM puts on the Hollies’ Long Cool Woman (in a black dress) and apparently goes outside for a smoke as the vinyl single hits a snag and repeats and repeats … and right in front of me the Disciples of Soul …
UNWRITTEN by NATASHA BEDINGFIELD. Story by Angela Savage.
My daughter takes me to a movie that she’s already seen and thinks I will like. The movie is so-so, but there’s a song in it that I love.
UP THERE CAZALY by MIKE BRADY. Story by Hannah Davies.
Mike Brady's guitar strums ripple through the MCG and reverberate through the living room.
UP WILSON in IRELAND. Story by Robert Lastdrager.
The Fender Stratocaster guitar sat propped up vertical on a barstool at waist height, like a ventriloquist’s dummy, the strings facing the audience.