JOHN GREENWOOD

(Guitars)

Professor Dr John Greenwood AM originated from Manchester, UK where he grew up, schooled and studied medicine at the University. Finishing his training in Plastic Surgery, he and his family emigrated to Adelaide where he became director of the Adult Burns Centre at the Royal Adelaide Hospital. For the next 20 years, he developed the service, received Membership of the Order of Australia for his response to the 2002 Bali Bombings, was 2016 South Australian of the Year and Hunterian Professor of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. He retired in October 2020. Fortuitously, he met Mark Trueack after a hand injury robbed his mate, Jimmy Keegan, of a place in UPF Acoustic. John took over. Interesting twists on Unitopia’s back catalogue (songs like Tesla), made Truey think that a Unitopia revival with new blood might be on the cards. John and Sean Timms became good friends, and worked together well on John’s solo work as well as new Unitopia material.