The Night The Music Died. How A Bunch Of Bushies Forged Rugby League's Last Great Fairytale

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Stoke Hill Press
Publisher Place: Australia
Publisher Year: 2014
Edition: First Edition

Description: 344 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: Forty years ago, a flashy new rugby league competition, the Amco Cup, was launched. Played under lights, televised live on Wednesday nights with commentary by a young Ray Warren, it was supposed to be won by one of the rich Sydney clubs. Instead, the trophy went to Western Division, a team from western NSW that included a timber cutter, a slaughterman, a greyhound trainer, a policeman, a brickie, miners and farmers. One player, a balding back-rower nicknamed TV Ted Ellery, became an instant celebrity. Along the way, TV Ted and his mates fought a match against Great Britain that might have been the most violent football game ever played. Three players were sent off and the referee needed a police escort to get not just out of the ground but out of town. Ian Heads has in effect written two books in one: describing in vivid detail a memorable season highlighted by an implausible triumph... and revisiting the players to discover what has become of them. The tale told by the referee of the Great Britain encounter, a family secret until Heads came upon it in the course of his research, is one of the most revealing and controversial ever published. The Night the Music Died is the classic story of the underdog winning against all odds. It could be the sporting book of the year.

ISBN: 9780987564146