Dave Dobbyn: Journey of a lifetime
For three decades, across dozens of songs, in scores of venues and in front of many thousands of people, Dave Dobbyn has played his way into our hearts and minds.
!["I was totally dandyish. I think I had a Moro bar all year [in 1979], that was the only solid food I had!" Photo / Ian Morris](https://www.nzherald.co.nz/resizer/v2/CQRM5LFZ5HMVBFBF4YY77I46VE.jpg?auth=86da1dec9326a4385d35618c0d1e9c5d3fa51bccd4ea72614108640454d66d1f&width=16&height=22&quality=70&smart=true)
![By the mid-1980s Dobbyn was living and touring in Australia. "I kind of got lost in it [Australia] and diluted in it."](https://www.nzherald.co.nz/resizer/v2/GV6RTYB7OFI6PXI72VQPMNT7NM.jpg?auth=5ed106b81fac53f82b055b8feec631b864051c52469c204a7edba264d9458bb8&width=16&height=24&quality=70&smart=true)
Image 1 of 23: Dave Dobbyn joins The Dudes in 1976. "It just seemed like the perfect thing, the rock 'n' roll life." Photo / Ian Morris
