Stuart Coop

And that should be pointed out.

There was actually quite a bit of graffiti about me around Surrey Hills, around that area.

There was a very famous one on Crown Street.

That's right.

Hang on.

No, there was one that suggested that I maybe had a sexual relationship with one of the bands that I wrote about a lot.

And then someone had come along and written, so who's jealous?

And then there was another one in an alleyway somewhere around Surry Hills or Darlinghurst, which said, I want to be like Stuart Coop.

And then someone wrote, like soup without salt.

Oh.

So there was, for every bit of praise or whatever, there was always the backhander from someone else who had... Yeah, and rather lame.

Yes, the one on Crown Street stayed there for about a decade.

It was there for a very... It was big and it was prominent.

No, by that stage, counterculture, I mean, I grew up in a period where we would think about the counterculture.

I mean, I was born in 1956.

So, you know, I was a kid coming of age and starting to read a lot during the 1960s.

So I read all of the fiction and nonfiction that was considered to be counterculture.

And I had the whole earth catalogue.

What's that?

It was a massive telephone box.