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The following day, the Easybeats travelled to Orange, New South Wales. There they made a television appearance at the CBN-8 television studios and performed a show at the Amoco Centre in Orange city centre. However, the show was interrupted by hostile audience members and was cancelled after only 20 minutes. This was The Easybeats' final ...
Stephen Carlton Wright [2] (20 December 1947 [3] – 27 December 2015) was an Australian singer, songwriter, and musician. Called Australia's first international pop star, he is best known for being the lead singer of the Easybeats, who are widely regarded as the greatest Australian pop band of the 1960s.
Members of the Australian rock band The Easybeats. Pages in category "The Easybeats members" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total.
George Young started his music career in Sydney. He formed there a beat pop band, the Easybeats, in late 1964, himself playing rhythm guitar alongside Dick Diamonde (born Dingeman Vandersluys) on bass guitar, Gordon "Snowy" Fleet on drums (ex-Mojos), Harry Vanda (born Johannes Vandenberg) on lead guitar (ex-Starfighters, Starlighters) and Stevie Wright on lead vocals (ex-Chris Langdon and the ...
Widely regarded as Australia's greatest pop group of the mid-1960s, The Easybeats had their beginnings in Sydney's Villawood Migrant Hostel. [4] [5] All of the five founding members were migrants to Australia from Europe. [4] In mid-1964 the group was formed by van der Sluys (renamed as Dick Diamonde) on bass guitar.
Johannes Hendrikus Jacob van den Berg (born 22 March 1946), better known as his stage name Harry Vanda, is an Australian musician, songwriter and record producer.He is best known as lead guitarist of the 1960s Australian rock band the Easybeats who with fellow member George Young formed the 1970s and 1980s songwriting and record production duo Vanda & Young.
A reunion took place in 1986, with the original members. [4] Fleet, with the group, was inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame in 2005. [14] He, Wright, and Vanda attended the ceremony. [4] In 2017, it was announced that the Easybeats were the subjects of a two-part miniseries that would air on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC).
By 1966 Vanda & Young had begun their writing partnership; together they penned the Easybeats' late 1960s recordings including "Friday on My Mind" which reached No. 1 on the Australian singles charts in 1966 [13] and "Good Times" (1968). [14] [15] The Easybeats became Australia's most popular and successful 1960s rock group. [3]