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Greg Carey Explains How He and Wade Jackson Connected with Van Duren

by Paul Cashmere

The story of Memphis musician Van Duren is a story next to no-one knows. That is because Van Duren never became famous. Then along came two Sydney music people, Greg Carey (manager of The Rubens) and musician Wade Jackson who set up to travel half a planet away to tell this story.

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Who Is Van Duren and why are we only hearing about him now?

by Paul Cashmere

At some stage in the 70s former Rolling Stones manager Andrew Loog Oldman signed on to manage Memphis artist Van Duren. He hung with Jody Stephens of Big Star, was tooted as the next Paul McCartney and then … nothing happened.

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