Roots

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Craig Horne. Roots

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For my wife Karen, who taught me to look for the role of women in everything.

And to my children, Alex and Dylan who I love and admire.

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‘Admission was 3s3d and we played from 8.15 to 11.45pm. At the time it was an offence to drink alcohol where people were dancing or within 100 meters of premises where there was dancing. You couldn’t even go out to your car parked around the corner the corner to take a swig without being booked.’12

As alcohol was not allowed, soft drinks were sold in the foyer, along with cups of coffee and tea — although there was grog smuggled in via medicine bottles and the odd Dexedrine tablet to speed things up a bit. Graeme Bell and the Uptown Club weren’t going to challenge the Le Lido on the Champs-Elysees for sophistication, nor was it, for fear of being closed down by authorities, able to challenge Melbourne’s overarching cultural conventions.

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