Lindsay Perigo (born 14 December 1951) is a New Zealand former television and radio broadcasting personality, founding member and first leader of the

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political party and an Objectivist organisation called Sense of Life Objectivists (SOLO). In 1993 he quit television work, in the process denouncing

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news and current affairs as "brain dead". Thereafter he returned to radio for several years, with a libertarian show on

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and on the now defunct Radio Liberty.Coddington, Deborah. ''Perigo! Politically Incorrect'', Radio Pacific Publishing, Auckland, 1999 Perigo is former editor of the ''Free Radical'', a libertarian/Objectivist magazine founded by him with backing from David Henderson in 1994. Deborah Coddington, former ''Free Radical'' assistant editor, wrote a biography of Perigo entitled ''Politically Incorrect'' in 1999, which was published by Radio Pacific. He is a noted fan of singer

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, and in August 2013 a collection of his writings on Lanza's life and work was released called ''The One Tenor''. He also wrote the foreword for Armando Cesari's Lanza biography, ''Mario Lanza: An American Tragedy''. He has interviewed

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and

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, and appeared with

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in a television tribute to Pavarotti in September 2007. A collection of his cultural and political commentaries was released in September 2012 titled ''The Total Passion for the Total Height''.Perigo, Lindsay. ''Total Passion for the Total Height'', Solo Press, 2012

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Lindsay Perigo's C.V.Libertarianz Party websiteSOLO websiteFree Radical magazine website
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