Robert Forster
Although commonly considered to be the darker, artier half of the creative force of the Go-Betweens -- John Lennon to Grant McLennan's Paul McCartney, as it were -- Robert Forster has always had a knack for crafty pop songs along with the brooding ballads he contributed to the Go-Betweens' albums, and his solo career has shown a healthy mix of the two styles.
Forster, a native of Brisbane, Australia, formed the Go-Betweens with McLennan at Queensland University in 1978. The duo kept the band going through six albums by nearly as many lineups, pro...[more]
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When Grant McLennan passed away suddenly in 2006, the Australian group the Go-Betweens, one of the greatest bands -- perhaps the greatest band -- of the original indie pop era lost one of its two songwriters and vocalists. Robert Forster, the band's other lead half, lost his most important musical partner and foil. Forster was the more erudite and conceptually ambitious of the two in his lyric concerns, walking the musical line between Jack Kerouac's desolation, {$William Butler Yea [ read more ]
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The Evangelist by singer and songwriter Robert Forster is his first solo recording in 11 years. It may not be a record he ever planned to make at all after the unexpected death of Grant McLennan, his collaborator for over 25 years in the Go Betweens. The band had released and was on tour for Oceans Apart, a masterpiece surpassed only by 16 Lovers Lane, if at all. Forster and McLennan had begun writing a new Go Betweens album in 2006, when McLennan passed away in his sleep from [ read more ]
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