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Billy Thorpe, the Glossary

William Richard Thorpe AM (29 March 1946 – 28 February 2007) was an English-born Australian singer-songwriter, and record producer.^[1]

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ABC Television (Australian TV network)

ABC Television is the general name for the national television services of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC).

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Acoustic music

Acoustic music is music that solely or primarily uses instruments that produce sound through acoustic means, as opposed to electric or electronic means.

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Albert Productions

Albert Productions, a division of music publishing and recording company Albert Music, is one of Australia's longest established independent record labels to specialise in rock and roll music.

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Album-oriented rock (AOR, originally called album-oriented radio) is an FM radio format created in the United States in the late 1960s that focuses on the full repertoire of rock albums and is currently associated with classic rock.

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Allen & Unwin

George Allen & Unwin was a British publishing company formed in 1911 when Sir Stanley Unwin purchased a controlling interest in George Allen & Co.

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AllMusic

AllMusic (previously known as All-Music Guide and AMG) is an American online music database.

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Andrew Denton

Andrew Christopher Denton (born 4 May 1960) is an Australian television producer, comedian, Gold Logie–nominated television presenter and former radio host, and was the host of the ABC's weekly television interview program Enough Rope and the ABC game show Randling.

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APRA AMCOS

APRA AMCOS consists of Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) and Australasian Mechanical Copyright Owners Society (AMCOS), both copyright management organisations or copyright collectives which jointly represent over 100,000 songwriters, composers and music publishers in Australia and New Zealand.

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ARIA Award for Best Adult Contemporary Album

The ARIA Music Award for Best Adult Contemporary Album, is an award presented at the annual ARIA Music Awards, which recognises "the many achievements of Aussie artists across all music genres", since 1987.

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ARIA Award for Best Cover Art

The ARIA Music Award for Best Cover Art, is an award presented within the Artisan Awards at the annual ARIA Music Awards.

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ARIA Award for Engineer of the Year

The ARIA Music Award for Engineer of the Year, is an award presented within the Artisan Awards at the annual ARIA Music Awards.

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ARIA Award for Producer of the Year

The ARIA Music Award for Producer of the Year, is an award presented within the Artisan Awards at the annual ARIA Music Awards.

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ARIA Charts

The ARIA Charts are the main Australian music sales charts, issued weekly by the Australian Recording Industry Association.

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ARIA Hall of Fame

Since 1988 the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) has inducted artists into its annual ARIA Hall of Fame. Billy Thorpe and ARIA Hall of Fame are ARIA Hall of Fame inductees.

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ARIA Music Awards

The Australian Recording Industry Association Music Awards (commonly known informally as ARIA Music Awards, ARIA Awards, or simply the ARIAs) is an annual series of awards nights celebrating the Australian music industry, put on by the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA).

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ARIA Music Awards of 1991

The Fifth Australian Recording Industry Association Music Awards (generally known as the ARIA Music Awards or simply The ARIAS) was held on 25 March 1991 at the Darling Harbour Convention Centre in Sydney.

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ARIA Music Awards of 2011

The 25th Annual Australian Recording Industry Association Music Awards (generally known as ARIA Music Awards or simply The ARIAs) were a series of award ceremonies which included the 2011 ARIA Artisan Awards, ARIA Hall of Fame Awards, ARIA Fine Arts Awards and ARIA Awards.

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Atlantic Records

Atlantic Recording Corporation (simply known as Atlantic Records) is an American record label founded in October 1947 by Ahmet Ertegun and Herb Abramson.

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Audio engineer

An audio engineer (also known as a sound engineer or recording engineer) helps to produce a recording or a live performance, balancing and adjusting sound sources using equalization, dynamics processing and audio effects, mixing, reproduction, and reinforcement of sound.

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Audio mixing (recorded music)

In sound recording and reproduction, audio mixing is the process of optimizing and combining multitrack recordings into a final mono, stereo or surround sound product.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), is the national broadcaster of Australia.

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Australian Government

The Australian Government, also known as the Commonwealth Government or the Federal Government, is the national executive government of the Commonwealth of Australia, a federal parliamentary constitutional monarchy.

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Australian Recording Industry Association

The Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) is a trade association representing the Australian recording industry which was established in the 1970s by six major record companies, EMI, Festival, CBS, RCA, WEA and Universal replacing the Association of Australian Record Manufacturers (AARM) which was formed in 1956.

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Australian Rock Database

The Australian Rock Database was a website with a searchable online database that listed details of Australian rock music artists, albums, bands, producers and record labels.

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Baby, Hold Me Close

"Baby, Hold Me Close" is a song written by Jerry Lee Lewis and Bob Tubert and released as a single by Lewis in the U.S. in February 1965 on Smash Records.

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Beat music

Beat music, British beat, or Merseybeat is a British popular music genre that developed, particularly in and around Liverpool, in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

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Bee Gees

The Bee Gees --> were a musical group formed in 1958 by brothers Barry, Robin, and Maurice Gibb. Billy Thorpe and Bee Gees are ARIA Award winners, ARIA Hall of Fame inductees and Q150 Icons.

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Bekka Bramlett

Rebekka Ruth Lazone Bramlett (born April 19, 1968) is an American singer.

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Billboard (magazine)

Billboard (stylized in lowercase since 2013) is an American music and entertainment magazine published weekly by Penske Media Corporation.

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Billboard 200

The Billboard 200 is a record chart ranking the 200 most popular music albums and EPs in the United States.

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Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs

Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs were an Australian rock band formed in Sydney in 1963.

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Blues

Blues is a music genre and musical form that originated amongst African-Americans in the Deep South of the United States around the 1860s.

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Bobby & Laurie

Bobby & Laurie were an Australian beat pop duo of the 1960s, with Laurie Allen (1942–2002) on vocals, guitar and keyboards and Bobby Bright (born in England, 3 February 1945) on vocals and guitar.

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Box set

A boxed set or (its US name) box set is a set of items (for example, a compilation of books, musical recordings, films or television programs) traditionally packaged in a box, hence 'boxed', and offered for sale as a single unit.

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Brass instrument

A brass instrument is a musical instrument that produces sound by sympathetic vibration of air in a tubular resonator in sympathy with the vibration of the player's lips.

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Brisbane

Brisbane (Meanjin) is the capital of the state of Queensland and the third-most populous city in Australia and Oceania, with a population of approximately 2.6 million.

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Broderick Smith

Broderick Smith (17 February 1948 – 30 April 2023) was an English-born Australian multi-instrumentalist, singer-songwriter and sometime actor. Billy Thorpe and Broderick Smith are English emigrants to Australia.

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Canada

Canada is a country in North America.

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Casablanca

Casablanca (lit) is the largest city in Morocco and the country's economic and business centre.

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Cashbox (magazine)

Cashbox, also known as Cash Box, is an American music industry trade magazine, originally published weekly from July 1942 to November 1996.

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Children of the Sun (Billy Thorpe album)

Children of the Sun is the third studio album by Australian musician Billy Thorpe, released in 1979.

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Col Joye

Colin Frederick Jacobsen (born 13 April 1937), better known by his stage name Col Joye, is an Australian pioneer rock singer-songwriter, musician and entrepreneur with a career spanning almost sixty-seven years, starting from the late 50s. Billy Thorpe and Col Joye are ARIA Award winners, ARIA Hall of Fame inductees, Australian rock singers, Logie Award winners and musicians from Sydney.

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Colleen Hewett

Colleen Hewett (born 16 April 1950) is an Australian singer and actress.

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Columbo

Columbo is an American crime drama television series starring Peter Falk as Lieutenant Columbo, a homicide detective with the Los Angeles Police Department.

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Country music

Country (also called country and western) is a music genre originating in the southern regions of the United States, both the American South and the Southwest.

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Cover version

In popular music, a cover version, cover song, remake, revival, or simply cover is a new performance or recording by a musician other than the original performer or composer of the song.

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Cult following

A cult following is a group of fans who are highly dedicated to some person, idea, object, movement, or work, often an artist, in particular a performing artist, or an artwork in some medium.

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Daryl Braithwaite

Daryl Braithwaite (born 11 January 1949) is an Australian singer. Billy Thorpe and Daryl Braithwaite are ARIA Hall of Fame inductees.

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Don Burrows

Donald Vernon Burrows (8 August 1928 – 12 March 2020) was an Australian jazz and swing musician who played clarinet, saxophone and flute. Billy Thorpe and Don Burrows are ARIA Award winners, ARIA Hall of Fame inductees and musicians from Sydney.

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Doug Parkinson

Douglas John Parkinson (30 October 1946 – 15 March 2021) was an Australian pop and rock singer.

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Dream Baby (How Long Must I Dream)

"Dream Baby (How Long Must I Dream)" is a song written by Cindy Walker which was first recorded and released by Roy Orbison originally as a non-album single in 1962.

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East of Eden's Gate

East of Eden's Gate is a studio album by singer Billy Thorpe.

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Eight Is Enough

Eight Is Enough is an American comedy-drama television series that aired on ABC from March 15, 1977, to May 23, 1981.

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Encyclopedia of Australian Rock and Pop

The Encyclopedia of Australian Rock and Pop or Rock and Pop by Australian music journalist Ian McFarlane is a guide to Australian popular music from the 1950s to the late 1990s.

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Fairfax Media was a media company in Australia and New Zealand, with investments in newspaper, magazines, radio and digital properties.

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Festival Records

Festival Records, later known as Festival Mushroom Records, was an Australian recording and publishing company founded in Sydney, Australia, in 1952 and operated until 2005.

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Fleetwood Mac

Fleetwood Mac are a British-American rock band formed in London in 1967 by guitarist and singer Peter Green.

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Funk

Funk is a music genre that originated in African-American communities in the mid-1960s when musicians created a rhythmic, danceable new form of music through a mixture of various music genres that were popular among African-Americans in the mid-20th century.

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Gimme Ted

Gimme Ted, or more fully Gimme Ted – The Ted Mulry Benefit Concerts, is an Australian 2×DVD video and tribute album by Various Artists, which was released on 19 May 2003.

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Glenn Shorrock

Glenn Barrie Shorrock (born 30 June 1944) is an English-born Australian singer-songwriter. Billy Thorpe and Glenn Shorrock are 20th-century Australian male singers, ARIA Award winners, ARIA Hall of Fame inductees and English emigrants to Australia.

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Go-Set

Go-Set was the first Australian pop music newspaper, published weekly from 2 February 1966 to 24 August 1974, and was founded in Melbourne by Phillip Frazer, Peter Raphael and Tony Schauble.

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GTK (TV series)

GTK (standing for "Get to Know") was an Australian popular music TV series of ten minute episodes, produced and broadcast by ABC Television from 1969 to 1975.

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Hard rock

Hard rock or heavy rock is a heavier subgenre of rock music typified by aggressive vocals and distorted electric guitars.

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Hard Time on Planet Earth

Hard Time on Planet Earth is an American science fiction television series that aired on CBS as a midseason replacement from March 1 to June 21, 1989.

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Hey Hey It's Saturday

Hey Hey It's Saturday was a long-running variety television program on Australian television.

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Ian McFarlane

Ian McFarlane (born 1959) is an Australian music journalist, music historian and author, whose best known publication is the Encyclopedia of Australian Rock and Pop (1999), which was updated for a second edition in 2017.

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IMDb

IMDb (an acronym for Internet Movie Database) is an online database of information related to films, television series, podcasts, home videos, video games, and streaming content online – including cast, production crew and personal biographies, plot summaries, trivia, ratings, and fan and critical reviews.

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Independent record label

An independent record label (or indie label) is a record label that operates without the funding or distribution of major record labels; they are a type of small- to medium-sized enterprise, or SME.

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INXS

INXS (a phonetic play on "in excess") were an Australian rock band, formed as the Farriss Brothers in 1977 in Sydney. Billy Thorpe and INXS are ARIA Award winners and ARIA Hall of Fame inductees.

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It's All Happening (TV series)

It's All Happening was an Australian music television show broadcast by the Seven Network in 1966.

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Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller

Leiber and Stoller were an American Grammy award-winning songwriting and record production duo, consisting of lyricist Jerome Leiber (April 25, 1933 – August 22, 2011) and composer Michael Stoller (born March 13, 1933).

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Jim Keays

James Keays (9 September 194613 June 2014) was a Scottish-born Australian musician who fronted the rock band The Masters Apprentices as singer-songwriter, guitarist and harmonica-player from 1965 to 1972 and subsequently had a solo career.

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Johnny O'Keefe

John Michael O'Keefe (19 January 1935 – 6 October 1978) was an Australian rock and roll singer whose career began in the early 1950s. Billy Thorpe and Johnny O'Keefe are 20th-century Australian male singers, ARIA Award winners, ARIA Hall of Fame inductees, Australian rock singers and Logie Award winners.

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Kent Music Report

The Kent Music Report was a weekly record chart of Australian music singles and albums which was compiled by music historian David Kent from May 1974 through to January 1999.

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Kevin Jacobsen

Kevin George Jacobsen OAM (born July 29,1939 in Sydney) is an Australian entertainment entrepreneur and former musician who is the head of the Jacobson Entertainment Group Along with brothers Col Joye and Keith, he was a member of the Australian 1960s band Col Joye and The Joyboys which achieved four No.

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Kings Cross, New South Wales

Kings Cross is an inner-eastern locality of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

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Laser lighting display

A laser lighting display or laser light show involves the use of laser light to entertain an audience.

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Linda George (Australian singer)

Linda George (born 1951) is an Australian pop, jazz fusion and soul singer from the 1970s. Billy Thorpe and Linda George (Australian singer) are English emigrants to Australia.

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List of Queensland's Q150 Icons

The Queensland's Q150 Icons list of cultural icons was compiled as part of Q150 celebrations in 2009 by the Government of Queensland, Australia. Billy Thorpe and list of Queensland's Q150 Icons are Q150 Icons.

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Lobby Loyde

Lobby Loyde (born John Baslington Lyde, 18 May 1941 – 21 April 2007), also known as John Barrie Lyde or Barry Lyde, was an Australian rock music guitarist, songwriter and producer. Billy Thorpe and Lobby Loyde are 20th-century guitarists, ARIA Award winners and ARIA Hall of Fame inductees.

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Long Way to the Top

Long Way to the Top was a six-part weekly Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) documentary film series on the history of Australian rock and roll, from 1956 to the modern era, it was initially broadcast from 8 August to 12 September 2001.

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Manchester

Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, England, which had a population of 552,000 at the 2021 census.

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Mattel

Mattel, Inc. is an American multinational toy manufacturing and entertainment company founded in Los Angeles by Harold Matson and the husband-and-wife duo of Ruth and Elliot Handler in January 1945 and headquartered in El Segundo, California.

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Melbourne

Melbourne (Boonwurrung/Narrm or Naarm) is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-most populous city in Australia, after Sydney.

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Michael Chugg

Michael Glenn Chugg (born 15 June 1947) is an Australian entrepreneur, businessman and concert tour promoter. Billy Thorpe and Michael Chugg are ARIA Award winners.

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Mick Fleetwood

Michael John Kells Fleetwood (born 24 June 1947) is a British musician, songwriter and actor.

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Million Dollar Bill (album)

Million Dollar Bill is the debut album by Australian musician Billy Thorpe, released in 1975.

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Mo Awards

The Australian Entertainment Mo Awards (commonly known informally as the Mo Awards) were an annual Australian entertainment industry award, that where established in 1975, to recognise achievements in live entertainment in Australia.

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Molly Meldrum

Ian Alexander "Molly" Meldrum AM (born 29 January 1943) is an Australian music critic, journalist, record producer and musical entrepreneur. Billy Thorpe and Molly Meldrum are ARIA Award winners, ARIA Hall of Fame inductees and Logie Award winners.

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Moomba Festival

Moomba (also known as the Moomba Festival) is held annually in Melbourne, Australia.

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Morocco

Morocco, officially the Kingdom of Morocco, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa.

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Mushroom 25 Live

Mushroom 25 Live is a live album, video and DVD by various Australian musicians and was recorded at the Mushroom 25 Concert held on Saturday 14 November 1998, at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.

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Mushroom Records

Mushroom Records was an Australian flagship record label, founded in 1972 in Melbourne.

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Music history

Music history, sometimes called historical musicology, is a highly diverse subfield of the broader discipline of musicology that studies music from a historical point of view.

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Music of Australia

The music of Australia has an extensive history made of music societies.

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MusicBrainz

MusicBrainz is a MetaBrainz project that aims to create a collaborative music database that is similar to the freedb project.

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National Film and Sound Archive

The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia (NFSA), known as ScreenSound Australia from 1999 to 2004, is Australia's audiovisual archive, responsible for developing, preserving, maintaining, promoting, and providing access to a national collection of film, television, sound, radio, video games, new media, and related documents and artefacts.

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National Library of Australia

The National Library of Australia (NLA), formerly the Commonwealth National Library and Commonwealth Parliament Library, is the largest reference library in Australia, responsible under the terms of the National Library Act 1960 for "maintaining and developing a national collection of library material, including a comprehensive collection of library material relating to Australia and the Australian people", thus functioning as a national library.

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New South Wales

New South Wales (commonly abbreviated as NSW) is a state on the east coast of:Australia.

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News Corp Australia

News Corp Australia is an Australian media conglomerate and wholly owned subsidiary of the American News Corp.

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News Corporation

The original incarnation of News Corporation (abbreviated News Corp. and also variously known as News Corporation Limited) was an American multinational mass media corporation controlled by media mogul Rupert Murdoch and headquartered at 1211 Avenue of the Americas in New York City.

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North Melbourne

North Melbourne is an inner-city suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, north-west of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Melbourne local government area.

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Ooh Poo Pah Doo

"Ooh Poo Pah Doo" is a song written and performed by Jessie Hill.

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Order of Australia

The Order of Australia is an Australian honour that recognises Australian citizens and other persons for outstanding achievement and service.

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Over the Rainbow

"Over the Rainbow", also known as "Somewhere Over the Rainbow", is a ballad by Harold Arlen with lyrics by Yip Harburg.

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Pan Books

Pan Books is a British publishing imprint that first became active in the 1940s and is now part of the British-based Macmillan Publishers, owned by the Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group of Germany.

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Peter Dawson (bass-baritone)

Peter Smith Dawson (31 January 188227 September 1961) was an Australian bass-baritone and songwriter in the 1920s and 1930s, when he was possibly the most popular singer of that era. Billy Thorpe and Peter Dawson (bass-baritone) are ARIA Award winners and ARIA Hall of Fame inductees.

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Planetarium

A planetarium (planetariums or planetaria) is a theatre built primarily for presenting educational and entertaining shows about astronomy and the night sky, or for training in celestial navigation.

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Poison Ivy (song)

"Poison Ivy" is a popular song by American songwriting duo Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller.

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Pub rock (Australia)

Pub rock is a style of Australian rock and roll that peaked in popularity throughout the 1970s and 1980s, and that continues to influence Australian music into the 21st century.

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Q150

Q150 was the sesquicentenary (150th anniversary) of the Separation of Queensland from New South Wales in 1859.

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Queensland

Queensland (commonly abbreviated as Qld) is a state in northeastern Australia, the second-largest and third-most populous of the Australian states.

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Reg Lindsay

Reginald John Lindsay OAM (7 July 1929 – 5 August 2008) was an Australian country music singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer and radio and television personality. Billy Thorpe and Reg Lindsay are 20th-century Australian male singers, 20th-century guitarists and Australian male guitarists.

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Rhythm and blues

Rhythm and blues, frequently abbreviated as R&B or R'n'B, is a genre of popular music that originated within African-American communities in the 1940s.

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Rock music in Australia

Rock music in Australia, also known as Oz rock, Australian rock, and Aussie rock, has a rich history, rooted in an appreciation of various rock genres originating in the United States and Britain, and to a lesser extent, in continental Europe and Africa.

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Ross Wilson (musician)

Ross Andrew Wilson (born 18 November 1947) is an Australian singer-songwriter, musician and producer. Billy Thorpe and Ross Wilson (musician) are ARIA Award winners, ARIA Hall of Fame inductees, Australian male guitarists, Australian rock guitarists and musicians from Melbourne.

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Roy Orbison

Roy Kelton Orbison (April 23, 1936 – December 6, 1988) was an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist known for his distinctive and powerful voice, complex song structures, and dark, emotional ballads.

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Science fiction

Science fiction (sometimes shortened to SF or sci-fi) is a genre of speculative fiction, which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel universes, and extraterrestrial life.

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Seven Network

The Seven Network (commonly known as Channel Seven or simply Seven) is a major Australian commercial free-to-air television network.

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Shakin' the Cage

Shakin' the Cage is an album by Fleetwood Mac drummer Mick Fleetwood's spin-off band The Zoo, released in June 1992.

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Sidney Myer Music Bowl

The Sidney Myer Music Bowl is an outdoor bandshell performance venue in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

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Sony Music Australia

Sony Music Entertainment Australia is the predominant record label operated by American parent company Sony Music Entertainment in Australia.

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Sounds of Australia

The Sounds of Australia, formerly the National Registry of Recorded Sound, is the National Film and Sound Archive's selection of sound recordings which are deemed to have cultural, historical and aesthetic significance and relevance for Australia.

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South Melbourne

South Melbourne is an inner suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, south of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Port Phillip local government area.

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Space opera

Space opera is a subgenre of science fiction that emphasizes space warfare, with use of melodramatic, risk-taking space adventures, relationships, and chivalric romance.

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St Ives, New South Wales

St Ives is a suburb on the Upper North Shore of Sydney in the state of New South Wales, Australia 18 kilometres north of the Sydney Central Business District in the local government area of Ku-ring-gai Council.

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St Leonards, New South Wales

St Leonards is a suburb on the lower North Shore of Sydney, Australia.

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St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney

St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney is a leading tertiary referral hospital and research facility located in Darlinghurst, Sydney.

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Star Trek: The Next Generation

Star Trek: The Next Generation (TNG) is an American science fiction television series created by Gene Roddenberry.

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Sunbury Pop Festival

Sunbury Pop Festival or Sunbury Rock Festival was an annual Australian rock music festival held on a private farm between Sunbury and Diggers Rest, Victoria, which was staged on the Australia Day (26 January) long weekend from 1972 to 1975.

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Surf music

Surf music (also known as surf rock, surf pop, or surf guitar) is a genre of rock music associated with surf culture, particularly as found in Southern California.

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Sydney

Sydney is the capital city of the state of New South Wales and the most populous city in Australia.

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Synthesizer

A synthesizer (also synthesiser, or simply synth) is an electronic musical instrument that generates audio signals.

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Talent manager

A talent manager (also known as an artist manager, band manager or music manager) is an individual who guides the professional career of artists in the entertainment industry.

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Tangier (album)

Tangier is a studio album by singer Billy Thorpe.

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Ted Albert

Edward Frank Albert (1937 – 11 November 1990) was an Australian early pioneer independent record producer, and founder of Albert Productions (part of his great grandfather's company Albert Music). Billy Thorpe and Ted Albert are ARIA Award winners and musicians from Sydney.

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The Australian

The Australian, with its Saturday edition The Weekend Australian, is a broadsheet newspaper published by News Corp Australia since 14 July 1964.

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The Beatles

The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960, comprising John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr.

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The Coasters

The Coasters are an American rhythm and blues/rock and roll vocal group who had a string of hits in the late 1950s.

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The Puggle Tales

The Puggle Tales are a group of seven books written by A. A. Barber.

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The Purple Hearts (Australian band)

The Purple Hearts were an Australian R&B, rock group, formed in Brisbane as the Impacts in 1964.

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The Rolling Stones

The Rolling Stones are an English rock band formed in London in 1962.

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The Sydney Morning Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) is a daily tabloid newspaper published in Sydney, Australia, and owned by Nine.

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The Walt Disney Company

The Walt Disney Company is an American multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate that is headquartered at the Walt Disney Studios complex in Burbank, California.

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The Who

The Who are an English rock band formed in London in 1964.

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The Wizard of Oz

The Wizard of Oz is a 1939 American musical fantasy film produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM).

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Theme music

Theme music is a musical composition which is often written specifically for radio programming, television shows, video games, or films and is usually played during the title sequence, opening credits, closing credits, and in some instances at some point during the program.

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Time in Australia

Australia uses three main time zones: Australian Eastern Standard Time (AEST; UTC+10:00), Australian Central Standard Time (ACST; UTC+09:30) and Australian Western Standard Time (AWST; UTC+08:00).

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TiVo Corporation

TiVo Corporation, formerly known as the Rovi Corporation and Macrovision Solutions Corporation, was an American technology company headquartered in San Jose, California.

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Tommy (The Who album)

Tommy is the fourth studio album by the English rock band the Who, released on 19 May 1969.

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Tony Barber (musician)

Anthony Arthur Barber, known as Tony Barber (born 3 December 1942) is an English-born author, singer-songwriter,inventor, artist, papercrafter and soft toy designer who emigrated to Australia in 1963. Billy Thorpe and Tony Barber (musician) are Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs members and English emigrants to Australia.

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Tour promoters (also known as concert promoters or talent buyers) are the individuals or companies responsible for organizing a live concert tour or special event performance.

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TV Week

TV Week is a weekly Australian magazine that provides television program listings information and highlights, as well as television-related news.

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United States

The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.

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Universal Studios, Inc.

Universal Studios, Inc. (formerly as MCA Inc., also known simply as Universal) is an American media and entertainment conglomerate and is owned by NBCUniversal, a division of Comcast.

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Vince Melouney

Vincent Melouney (born 18 August 1945) is an Australian musician. Billy Thorpe and Vince Melouney are 20th-century guitarists, Australian lead guitarists, Australian rock guitarists, Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs members and musicians from Sydney.

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War of the Worlds (1988 TV series)

War of the Worlds is a science fiction television series that ran for two seasons, from October 7, 1988 to May 14, 1990.

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Wendy Saddington

Wendy June Saddington (26 September 194921 June 2013), also known as Gandharvika Dasi, was an Australian blues, soul and jazz singer, and was in the bands Chain, Copperwine and the Wendy Saddington Band. Billy Thorpe and Wendy Saddington are musicians from Melbourne.

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Wild Cherries

The Wild Cherries were an Australian rock group, which started in late 1964 playing R&B/jazz and became "the most relentlessly experimental psychedelic band on the Melbourne discotheque / dance scene" according to commentator, Glenn A. Baker.

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Willie Dixon

William James Dixon (July 1, 1915January 29, 1992) was an American blues musician, vocalist, songwriter, arranger and record producer.

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60 Minutes (Australian TV program)

60 Minutes is an Australian version of the United States television newsmagazine show of the same title, airing on the Nine Network since 1979 on Sunday nights.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Thorpe

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