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David N. Pepperell has been a musician, songwriter, journalist, bookseller, record retailer, and writer. He was a singer with the band, The Union, in 1966. In 1971 in Melbourne he founded Archie'n'Jugheads Records (later called The Missing Link), Australia's first import rock record shop. Also in the seventies, he was a regular contributor to Daily Planet, Go-Set, and Juke (as Doctor Pepper), as well as contributing to Rolling Stone, Digger, Nation Review, Ear for Music and Metro. He presented programs on 3RRR-FM from its inception to the mid-eighties, and was manager of the crime book store, Kill City, in Melbourne for many years. In 1992 he published the letters of writer Anais Nin to himself, 1968 to1976 (Letters to a Friend in Australia).