Lindsay Perigo
Lindsay Perigo (born 14 December 1951) is a New Zealand former television and radio broadcasting personality, founding member and first leader of the Libertarianz political party and an Objectivist organisation called Sense of Life Objectivists (SOLO).
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In 1993 he quit television work, in the process denouncing TVNZ news and current affairs as "brain dead". Thereafter he returned to radio for several years, with a libertarian show on Radio Pacific and on the now defunct Radio Liberty.[1]
Perigo is former editor of the Free Radical, a libertarian/Objectivist magazine founded by him with backing from David Henderson in 1994. Deborah Coddington, former Free Radical assistant editor, wrote a biography of Perigo entitled Politically Incorrect in 1999, which was published by Radio Pacific.[1]
He is a noted fan of singer Mario Lanza, and in August 2013 a collection of his writings on Lanza's life and work was released called The One Tenor.[2] He also wrote the foreword for Armando Cesari's Lanza biography, Mario Lanza: An American Tragedy.[3] He has interviewed José Carreras[4] and Luciano Pavarotti, and appeared with Dame Malvina Major in a television tribute to Pavarotti in September 2007.[5]
A collection of his cultural and political commentaries was released in September 2012 titled The Total Passion for the Total Height.[6]
References
- Coddington, Deborah. Perigo! Politically Incorrect, Radio Pacific Publishing, Auckland, 1999
- Perigo, Lindsay. The One Tenor, Solo Press, 2013
- Cesari, Armando. Mario Lanza: An American Tragedy, Baskerville Publishers, 2004
- Perigo, Lindsay. Lindsay Perigo interviews star tenor José Carreras (Part 1) on YouTube, 1994
- Campbell Live. "Pavarotti Remembered: Lindsay Perigo & Dame Malvina Major" on YouTube, September 2007
- Perigo, Lindsay. Total Passion for the Total Height, Solo Press, 2012