Clinton Walker is a Sydney-based writer the Sun-Herald has called 'our best chronicler of Australian grass-roots culture.' Born in rural Victoria in 1957, he published his own fanzines in the late '70s and established a colourful reputation in the '80s freelancing for newspapers and magazines such as RAM, Rolling Stone, Roadrunner, The Age, Stiletto, and The Bulletin. He has since published ten books, worked extensively for television, for example as co-writer and principal interviewer on ABC-TV's hit 2001 Oz-rockumentary series Long Way to the Top, and compiled and annotated a score of anthology CDs. www.clintonwalker.com.au