Pip Proud

Australian singer-songwriter who began making idosyncratic records of the 1960s. He moved from Adelaide to Sydney in his late teens, he began writing poetry, novels and songs at an impressive rate. Artist Gary Shead made a documentary about him. He recorded and pressed a few copies of an album, De Da De Dum; Polygram records snapped him up and re-recorded the LP as Adreneline and Richard. He lived in Tenterfield, in northern New South Wales - in a house he built himself with no electric tools - and continued to write songs