The First Editorial

Go-Set's first editorial was a marker for its existence.
The observations are very interesting. 
Phillip Frazer has suggested that he wrote the first editorial, and in it he makes the point that the music industry in Melbourne had not an industry "journal" (this seems an academic term) that met the needs of teens and twenties to that point. Of course what is interesting is that while "Everybody's" had been around for a long time, it did not meet the needs of Melbourne teenagers to that time. Frazer, calls the magazine a "journal", probably a reference to his years at university and having been a part of the Monash University magazine.

This first issue of the magazine will begin a period where the youth of Melbourne, and later, the other cities and towns of Australia, were given a voice, sometimes of rebellion, and sometimes of pain, and sometimes of praise, but most often, he voice was of support and fandom for Australian and overseas artists.


Historically, Go-Set would become a voice for musicians, the underground, and its readers. Go-Set offices and management would become a focus of police investigations. They would represent a threat to the "establishment". The reason for this lay in the fact Go-Set  founders were part of left at Monash so  Go-Set was seen by the authorities as a threat to society.


Go-Set also introduced its audience to youth culture, fashion, and more importantly, what it meant to be a teenager.


This blog will show the history of Go-Set and the times it helped create and reflect on. It will provide information about the writers, background into items within its pages, and try to put together a detailed time-line of pop and rock history as it occurred in Australia during the sixties and seventies.

I welcome comments from readers and musicians who read this blog, and who were there at the time, and who weren't. 

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