“Ian is pure heart, pure soul, pure music” – Paul Kelly
“Ian was a national treasure” Don Walker
“The man was a damn good kisser” Tex Perkins
“It’s got a massive thumping heart and a twinkling eye and a hand up yer back – the real deal” Tim Rogers
FORGET what you think about posthumous albums. Ian Rilen and the Love Addicts’ Family From Cuba is bursting with life.
Recorded in July 2006 just months before his passing, it’s an album that demonstrates how powerful and inspired Ian Rilen was right until the end. (more…)
The Age, Martin Boulton, 26th October, 2012
Family from Cuba
Ian Rilen & the Love Addicts
(Phantom)
FORGET the star rating when it comes to the final album from one of this country’s most passionate, rebellious and loved musicians – Ian Rilen was quite simply a star.
The original Bad Boy for Love – he wrote and played on Rose Tattoo’s most well-known song – Rilen was a brilliant, cheeky and eternally romantic star to the many fans he made over nearly four decades, to his family and his many, many friends. He died, aged 59, in 2006 after battling cancer, but not before making one more helluva rockin’ album…
Read the full article at The Age.