Richie: The Man Behind The Legend

Richie: The Man Behind the Legend

Tasker, Norman

Heads, Ian (eds)

Stoke Hill Press

Never Before, Never Again: The story of St George's 11 straight rugby league premierships, 1956-66. Special 50th Anniversary Edition

Writer, Larry

Steve Mascord, born Andrew John Langley, was obsessed with rugby league and rock n roll. Long after almost everyone he knew, he clung to these things like twin teddybears, turning at least one of them into a career and making a bit of money out of the other. But he spent all this money on .... rugby league at rock n roll. At the age of 47 he owned precisely nothing aside from hundreds of records and CDs and almost every edition of Rugby League Week ever printed. He was unmarried, had no car or property and was the proud owner of $50,000 of credit card debt. Then one day he discovered the truth about himself. He always knew he was adopted but it turned out he was part of a bohemian family, his mother forced to give him up after suffering a mental breakdown. She searched for him until her dying day. Steve met uncles and cousins and aunties he never knew existed and for the first time in his life he felt whole. And he looked around that storage room full of CDs and football magazines and felt sad; a sense of loss. He appeared in newspapers and on radio and television and people thought he was successful but had he really created a life for himself? Or was he living in a childhood fantasy, compensating for what had been missing, ready to fall down on top of him as traditional media imploded? Steve thought enough of being Steve Mascord, who is not a real person. Time to finally be Andrew John Langley . Having figuratively thrown all his toys out of the cot, he decided to conduct an audit. Which ones to pick up off the floor and keep in his new life, and which to leave laying there forever.

Touchstones

Steve Mascord

Sports & Outdoors

Phar Lap: The Story of Australia's Greatest Ever Racehorse

Armstrong, Geoff

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