Tornado Alley (PROG)

[fuagf]

AND ANOTHER - Archie Roach, a mesmerizing voice of Indigenous Australia, dies at 66

"ANOTHER AUSTRALIAN SINGING LEGEND PASSES ON…
Olivia Newton John: "

His debut single, ‘Took the Children Away,’ became an anthem for the ‘Stolen Generations,’ the tens of
thousands of Indigenous Australians who were removed from their homes under racist government policies

By Harrison Smith
August 4, 2022 at 12:46 p.m. EDT


Australian singer-songwriter Archie Roach and his partner, Ruby Hunter, perform at the Sydney Festival
in 2010. (Lisa Maree Williams/Getty Images)

When Archie Roach was 3 or 4, welfare officers came to take him away from his family in southeastern Australia. His aunt tried to scare them off with a gun, and his cousins tried to hide him under a pile of leaves. His mother wept; his father came running in from the fields. His memories of that moment were scattered, he said, but eventually he was carried away on a police officer’s shoulder, told that he was leaving for a picnic.

Mr. Roach was part of the “Stolen Generations,” the tens of thousands of Indigenous Australian children who were forcibly removed from their homes under government assimilation policies that lasted into the 1970s. As an adult, he struggled with alcoholism and homelessness, sleeping on the streets of Sydney and Melbourne while trying to reconnect with members of his family. He spent time in prison and in hospitals, suffering seizures that doctors linked to his alcohol abuse, and he attempted suicide while trying to dry out.

Music helped ease his pain. “It gave me something to fill the gap left by drinking,” he told People magazine. With his husky baritone, gentle guitar playing and poignant lyrics about family, love and politics, he became one of Australia’s most renowned singer-songwriters, raising awareness of the Stolen Generations through his debut single, the 1990 ballad “Took the Children Away .. .https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IL_DBNkkcSE .” ]embedded from link

More - https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2022/08/04/australian-singer-archie-roach-dead/

I'll leave the ones below, there before filling in the link above.
One or other or two of could be canned by author, or copyright.

And music producer Michal Gudinski

Mr Gudinski died peacefully in his sleep at his home in Melbourne, aged 68.
P - Stars including Kylie Minogue, Bruce Springsteen, Jimmy Barnes and Archie
Roach paid tribute to the pioneer, who founded Mushroom Records in 1972.
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=162344679 .

Ah, knew there was one somewhere. 2015 though video is gone .. Archie Roach Took The Children Away
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=118999506 ..Try another

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IL_DBNkkcSE .. one other, in case

Archie Roach - Took The Children Away (30th Anniversary Edition) - Official Video

44,082 views Oct 9, 2020

Archie Roach

To celebrate the 30th anniversary of Charcoal Lane, Archie Roach brings you a new version of the
Took The Children Away, recorded at his kitchen table with Stephen Magnusson and Sam Anning.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EA52bupg-BY

More sad shit - 2015 - A guide to Australia’s Stolen Generations
Read why Aboriginal children were stolen from their families, where they were taken and what happened to them.
The horrific abuse they suffered in institutions and foster families left thousands traumatised for life
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=112875703
.