Peter Walsh

In the early 1970s David Porter was a contributing photographer for some of the most influential Australian Rock music and underground publications (Go-Set, Daily/Planet, Rolling Stone (Australian Edition), The Digger. Porter was based in Melbourne, his subject the zeitgeist of its Rock/Pop music, underground theatre, and Counterculture scenes, sometimes working as ‘David Porter’, sometimes ‘Jacques L’Affrique’, sometimes ‘Jack Africa’. In 1973 he left Melbourne, stopped working in commercial photography, and pursued a teaching career.

Peter Walsh. Go-Set journalist

GO-SET (1966-1974)
Weekly newspaper focusing on International and Australian pop/rock music, contemporary youth culture, and fashion. Independent of the mainstream media, central to the development of an intrinsically Australian rock and pop music, and youth culture in the late 1960s and early 70s.

Published Jesus Christ Superstar. A survey by our staff writer (Peter Walsh). Go-Set, 18 March 1972.