Revised 2019 edition: In the early 1970s, a group of impoverished students formed a rock band in Auckland, New Zealand, and planned their assault on the world's music charts. For a decade Split Enz fought to be understood by audiences and music critics who often struggled to accept their madcap on-stage performances and innovative sounds. Eventually, they found chart success in the UK, United States, Canada, Europe, Australia with hits like I Got You and with best-selling albums such as Mental Notes, Frenzy, True Colours, Waiata/Corroboree and Time and Tide. At home, they remain New Zealand's most successful rock band. The band launched the careers of its leader Tim Finn and brother Neil Finn who later formed the hugely-successful Crowded House and joined Fleetwood Mac. Success had its price for members of Split Enz, and founding bass-player Mike Chunn shares his inside story of the band in Stranger Than Fiction: The Life and Times of Splitz Enz, a searingly honest account of this much-loved group of musicians.

Stranger Than Fiction: The Life and Times of Split Enz

Biographies & Memoirs

Chunn, Mike

Arts & Literature

Hurricane Press

Stranger than fiction: The life and times of Split Enz

Arts & Photography

Music

GP Publications

A rollercoaster yarn about Mike Chunn's years in the ground-breaking band Split Enz, but also the powerful story of how he dealt with a crippling mental health issue and went on to become one of our most influential music identities. 'The NZ rock bio that everyone is going to want this Christmas.' Jenna Todd, Time Out 'How enthusiasm, passion and self-belief can achieve remarkable results.' Alex Behan, Stuff 'You're a very good writer, Mike.' John Campbell, TV One 'Infectious . . .' NZ Listener

A Sharp Left Turn: Notes on a Life in Music, from Split Enz to Play to Strange

A&U New Zealand

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