Stuart Coop

But no, Go Set was absolutely it.

You know, it was a precursor to the magazines that were around.

You know, I came to Sydney to write for Ram magazine, Rock Australia magazine.

That was coming out of Sydney.

Duke was coming out of Melbourne.

But Go Set was it.

You know, Wendy Saddington, the great Australian singer, had an advice column in there.

Ian Meldrum was about sort of 14 and writing for Go Set.

Boy, you didn't miss a Go Set if you wanted to know what was going on.

I've interviewed Bob twice and I... Wasn't it good enough the first time?

He was better the second time.

Maybe I ask better questions.

But look, I'm trying to think back to 1966 and whether you would have been that casual about the opportunity to speak to Bob Dylan.

I don't think you would have been.

And that actually reminded me of one of my, I don't know if it's a favourite story, but it's a terrific story that Lisa Robinson, another pioneering American woman music writer, tells where she, after one of her first interviews, she has always put two tape recorders down on the desk whilst doing an interview.

And someone said, why?

And she said, after you've spent five hours talking to John Lennon and the tape is blank, she said, you have a backup.

So there's either I don't have a tape recorder or, yes, and now I don't know what you're like when you're recording things, but certainly for my entire life I'm always nervously looking and I miss the days of cassettes because I used to get reassurance from just watching that little cassette wheel going round and round and round.

Well, you hope you don't do it again.

You hope.