First published twenty years ago, PeterBlazey's audacious, irresistible autobiography is now available in a revisededition with a foreword by the Honourable Michael Kirby. Candid and at timesprovocative, these self-styled 'uncalled-for memoirs' encompass five decades inthe life of a controversial Australian journalist, biographer, and gay activist.

The reporter who got the scoop on the deathof Harold Holt, Blazey also wrote the definitive biography of Victoria'slongest serving Premier. He was appointed Press Secretary tothe Environment Minister in the Whitlam Government and followed this withsix months in a London Trot squat a witness to punk while streetfighting the National Front. 

In 1978, he was party to the riot that led toSydney's first Mardi Gras parade and later became a pioneering Gay LiberationCandidate in the NSW State election. Blazey always found himself in the hub ofpolitical and cultural times. He frequented Studio 54 in its heyday; enjoyedlife as a millionaire wastrel in Barbara Stanwyck's former Hollywood mansion; and, in his final years, agitated for change as an inflammatory columnist andtroublesome AIDS activist. Blazey was close to the mark when tagginghimself 'a belligerent old bugger' though, in the end, his larrikin spiritwas tempered by insights both heartfelt and profound.

Screw Loose is a unique account of a remarkable lifethat remains as vivid, incisive, and raucously entertaining as when it firstappeared in 1997.