{"name":"Eric Bogle","title":"Eric Bogle","id":2196,"slug":"eric-bogle","url":"https://www.guitarparty.com/api/v3/core/authors/2196/?format=json","bio_short":"Scotland's greatest living Australian. Or the other way around, depending on how you look at it.  Born in Peebles, Scotland, and emigrating to Australia in 1969, he currently resides near Adelaide, South Australia. Written in 1972, <a title=\"Eric Bogle &ndash; And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda\" href=\"http://www.last.fm/music/Eric+Bogle/_/And+the+Band+Played+Waltzing+Matilda\" class=\"bbcode_track\">And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda</a> is perhaps his best-known song, being a haunting evocation of the ANZAC experience fighting in the Battle of Gallipoli. It has also been interpreted as a reaction to the Vietnam War.  ","artist_img":"//guitarparty.overcastcdn.com/images/EricBogleeric6.2e16d0ba.fill-1200x675-c100.format-jpeg.jpg","songs":[]}