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Joe Dolce topped New Zealand's music chart with "Shaddap You Face" for eight weeks in 1980 and 1981. Bob Marley and his band, The Wailers, remained seven weeks at the top position with "One Love/People Get Ready". "Stomp!" by the Brothers Johnson peaked atop the New Zealand Singles Chart for six weeks. Key † – Song of New Zealand origin [nb 2]
New Zealand radio's conservative programming approach was increasingly challenged by young people in the 1960s. Radio Hauraki initially began life as a pirate radio station, broadcasting in international waters 50 miles (80 kilometres) offshore from Auckland in the Hauraki Gulf, a deliberate move that allowed them to circumnavigate restrictive broadcasting legislation and broadcast their own ...
The Cakekitchen; Edwin Carr; Shayne Carter; Cassandra's Ears; Che Fu; The Checks; The Chicks; The Chills; Clap Clap Riot; Jemaine Clement – member of folk/pop/comedy duo Flight of the Conchords
Music journalist Bruce Sergent notes that the list is highly skewed towards the 1980s and 90s to the detriment of earlier music, with notable omissions including Howard Morrison, Dinah Lee, and Ray Columbus & the Invaders. [1] Some songs may also be claimed as both New Zealand and Australian.
The Rumour was a New Zealand pop/rock music band in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Formed in 1966 and featuring twin brothers Shade and Gerard Smith, Jacques Koolen and Ross Hindman they went on to achieve success in the NZ pop scene with chart-topping hits "L'amour Est L'enfant de la Liberte", No 1 on the New Zealand charts for four weeks [1] and "Holy Morning". [2]
The history of blues in New Zealand dates from the 1960s. [citation needed] The earliest blues influences on New Zealand musicians were indirect – not from the United States but from white British blues musicians: first the R&B styles of Fleetwood Mac, Eric Clapton, The Animals and The Rolling Stones, and later the blues-tinged rock of groups such as Led Zeppelin.
Sir John Edward Rowles KNZM OBE (born 26 March 1947) is a New Zealand singer. He was most popular in the late 1960s, 1970s and early 1980s, and he is best known in New Zealand for his song from 1970, "Cheryl Moana Marie", which he wrote about his younger sister.
Official New Zealand Music Chart (Recorded Music New Zealand) 27 June 1975: Mark Williams "Yesterday Was Just the Beginning of My Life" 3 5 June 1977: Mark Williams "It Doesn't Matter Anymore" 4 9 April 1978: John Rowles "Tania" 4 2 December 1979: Jon Stevens "Jezebel" 6 3 February 1980: Jon Stevens "Montego Bay" 1 16 March 1980: Split Enz "I ...