I read recently that they are reintroducing Tasmanian devils into mainland Australia, a carnivorous marsupial so renowned that it even became a character in Looney Tunes cartoons. This would please the late Errol Flynn, from Tasmania, who liked to consider himself a bit of a Tasmanian devil. He lived a wild life and fulfilled one of his own quoted dictums: “I intend to live the first half of my life. I don’t care about the rest.” He died at fifty. A genuine adventurer and roustabout even before he became a movie star, his ghost-written autobiography “My Wicked, Wicked Ways” is a rollicking read. Of his film career, Flynn said: “I felt like an impostor, taking all that money for reciting ten or twelve lines of nonsense a day.” He spent it, too. “Any man,” said Flynn, “who dies with more than $10,000 to his name is a failure.” In obeisance to that odd precept, Flynn led a life so ribald and free-wheeling that he more than earned the immortality inherent in the complimentary depiction “in like Flynn.”
That saying refers to his amazing powers of seduction. Nature was very generous with him. He had a son Sean Flynn who David Niven said was just as dashing and handsome as him, a journalist who tragically disappeared in Cambodia in the 70s.
Wow Henry. I’m impressed!
An American who knows something more about Australia other than Paul Hogan (Crocodile Dundee) and that we have plenty of kangaroos.
Errol Flynn had a yacht named Sirocco and almost 40 years ago a local Melbourne band – aptly called Australian Crawl – released their second album also titled Sirocco.
There was a song on the record dedicated to good old Errol…..with the chorus….”Ohh Errol..I would give everything just be like him” (I still have the vinyl LP somewhere)
Many years later there was a question mark over Guns n Roses huge hit “Sweet Child o Mine”.
Did it plagiarise a song from the Sirocco album?
They are similar. Who knows?
Enjoying the memories Henry.
Keep well
V.J.😷
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| veejay wrote: |
| Wow Henry. I’m impressed! An American who knows something more about Australia other than Paul Hogan (Crocodile Dundee) and that we have plenty of kangaroos. Errol Flynn had a yacht named Sirocco and almost 40 years ago a local Melbourne band – aptly called Australian Crawl – released their second album also titled Sirocco. There was a song on the record dedicated to good old Errol…..with the chorus….”Ohh Errol..I would give everything just be like him” (I still have the vinyl LP somewhere) Many years later there was a question mark over Guns n Roses huge hit “Sweet Child o Mine”. Did it plagiarise a song from the Sirocco album? They are similar. Who knows? Enjoying the memories Henry. Keep well V.J.😷 |
When I saw the item about the devils I naturally thought of Errol and I might even pull his autobio off the shelf and read it again.
