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Article: Ben Folds and his ‘home town’ of Adelaide

Posted on August 5, 2019May 7, 2020 by Clayton Wehner
Ben Folds. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)

I’m a big fan of Ben Folds…did you know he lived in Adelaide once?

I wrote an article about it over on the Adelaide Living blog…

Adelaide is recognised as the ‘home town’ of many talented Australian musicians – Sia Furler, Jimmy Barnes, Paul Kelly, Guy Sebastian to name a few – but it was also the ‘home town’ of a famous American rock pianist-singer-songwriter in the early 2000s: Ben Folds.

Best known for his songs ‘Brick’, ‘Rockin’ the Suburbs’ and ‘Army’, Ben Folds burst onto the Australian music scene in the mid-1990s with his alternative rock band Ben Folds Five (the band was, in fact, a trio).

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