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Everyone possesses Nat Turner because he fits into the role each creator wants to make him fit into. The amazing thing about Nat Turner is the fact that so little is known about him.
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Nat quickly contracted 4 local talents. One group was right under his nose – his son Steve had a new band, Steve and the Board. Nat had a cute little novelty song, "Giggle eyed goo", that he felt would suit them fine. He asked Tony Barber, ex-Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs’ guitarist and songwriter, to prepare some tunes. He signed Toni McCann for another single release. Lastly he rang Big Norm Miller.
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The fact is there was a historical Nat Turner. The fact is that certain things were known about him. The fact is that as a consequence of his actions, he occupied a very prominent and important role in the collective memory and imagination of the black community and, perhaps, possibly in the white community too.
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Geoff had been in the RAAF during WW2, at one time stationed in Borneo, but he didn’t know Ossie or Nat during the war. He remembers meeting Nat at the Coolangatta Hotel one Thursday night in the mid-1950s. Geoff and Lucky Grills were partners in a show at the hotel, and Nat arrived to catch their act. Nat continued to come to the hotel each Thursday, insisting each time that Geoff publish a song that Geoff had written called "I’ve been everywhere". Geoff hadn’t been so sure – "It was only my opening number, you know, but Nat kept on at me." The song was eventually recorded by Lucky Starr, stormed to number one across Australia, was covered by the Canadian country star, Hank Snow, and is one of the most successful songs ever written by an Australian.
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In 1935, black theatre educator Randolph Edmonds presented the Nat Turner story as a play written to be performed at schools and colleges. In the climactic scene, Edmonds turns his attention to the horrible consequences of the rebellion for the men and women of the slave community.
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Nat had met the Bee Gees in Brisbane some years earlier. They’d appeared on Teen Beat, a TV show he’d produced. Barry Gibb had been about 13 years old, twins Maurice and Robin about 10 or 11. The Gibb family moved from Brisbane to Sydney in January 1963. From then until April 1966, the Bee Gees issued 10 singles and 1 LP on the Leedon label. Not one had been a hit.
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