☮ ♥ ♬ 🧑💻<p>“In <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/ThePretenders" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ThePretenders</span></a>’ song “My City Was Gone”, singer <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/ChrissieHynde" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ChrissieHynde</span></a> goes back to her home town of <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Akron" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Akron</span></a>, <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Ohio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ohio</span></a>, only to find that all the things that once bound her to her birthplace have disappeared.</p><p>The <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/GoBetweens" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GoBetweens</span></a>’ most famous song is “Streets of Your Town”, which (depending on who you ask) may or may not be about <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Brisbane" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Brisbane</span></a>. In the song’s bridge, the late <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/GrantMcLennan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GrantMcLennan</span></a> sings wistfully: “They shut it down, they closed it down, they pulled it down …”</p><p>We finish our coffee and head out into a city we barely recognise.”</p><p> <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/AndrewStafford" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AndrewStafford</span></a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/RobertForster" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RobertForster</span></a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/AusMusic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AusMusic</span></a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/music" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>music</span></a> <<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/may/24/robert-forster-you-improve-as-a-person-as-you-get-older-i-think-thats-a-fact" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2</span><span class="invisible">025/may/24/robert-forster-you-improve-as-a-person-as-you-get-older-i-think-thats-a-fact</span></a>></p>