'Youth always revolts against the leadership of age ... we were satirists.' Volume 1 of a proposed 2 volumes; the artist's role in the cultural revolution that began in the 1960s – establishing the Sydney and London 'OZ', his psychedelic posters of Dylan, Hendrix and Donovan, LP covers for Cream, efforts to make the Yellow House a cultural precinct, campaign to save Sydney's Luna Park, and to discover the cause of the fatal Ghost Train fire and to honour its victims ('I love Luna Park and sometimes I feel Luna Park loves me, but it has been an arduous romance'); interviews with contemporaries of the period, including: Tim Lewis, Peter Kingston, Garry Shead, Greg Weight, Jonny Lewis, William Yang, Philippe Mora, Jeannie Lewis, Richard Neville, Tiny Tim and Jim Anderson, and of special significance, given his passing in September this year, actor Lex Marinos' observation, while working with Sharp on 'Tears of Steel & the Clowning Calaveras': 'What was extraordinary was Martin's ability to take stuff and make us see it differently...'; indexed, no illustrations.
