number 428 wham bam sam's your man

my first proper flat mate was tall and he was called sam. back in adelaide as a young boy wondering what path his life would take, a light bulb came on when he saw iggy pop gyrating on the rage intro...he shot to fame in the early 90's with super acid jazz groove band dig and he can still slap the bass on cue.

we lived in a very big flat on campbell parade, a long time ago. annalise braakensiek was our neighbour and bondi was really happening. sam kindly gave us the front room with the view, but secretly i think he knew that people liked to throw bottles at windows 3 stories up and motorbikes used to like to crash there at 4am...

on the ground level of our building was a bank. the building decided that they wanted to remove the safe and make the bank in to a shop. every day i would sneak out of the house at the exact time that the choir of jack hammers and obscenities would chime from my bed and sam's bed down the hall.

he liked to look out the window on to the campbell pde promenade and sing a song...'touch the peni in public.' there are plenty more of these songs where this came from that he now passes on to the likes of christina aguilera and other pop stars...

well today is his day...

***happy birthday mr dick!