Pat Cash

Pat Cash is a true giant of the tennis world and despite retiring years ago he is still in demand as a TV pundit at the major tournaments as well as being a regular on the “Legends” circuit. His true love however is Rock music, an obsession that grew from his childhood back in Melbourne on hearing Judas Priest for the first time. He spent some time between preparing to commentate at Wimbledon and checking out Aersomith in Hyde Park, to chat to Mick Burgess about his passion for music. What was the musical environment like growing up in Australia? There were quite a lot of live bands and that was the thing that we used to do. I suppose there were discos but we didn’t really venture that far. Certainly if you wanted to hear some music it was pretty easy, there were always plenty of bands playing in local clubs and bars. There was plenty of Rock ‘n’ Roll that was good but not much Heavy Metal, that was more of an underground thing. There was one big record store in the centre of town right in front of Flinders Street Station in Melbourne called Flinders Street Underground or something and you went in there and there was this big huge girl in there dressed in black. This is where you could get the new Motley Crue album or the new Iron Maiden album or whatever. Gradually you could get albums from the department stores in Town but in the beginning if you wanted anything by Ozzy Osbourne, Black Sabbath or Judas Priest, which is what I was listening to at the time; this is where you could get them. Did your parents influence your musical tastes? My parents are actually from a family of Opera singers believe …READ MORE