Thorpe AM (29 March 1946 – 28 February 2007) was an English-born Australian singer-songwriter, and record producer. As lead singer of his band Billy Thorpe...
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Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs were an Australian rock band formed in Sydney in 1963. They were active in two incarnations, the first as a beat band from...
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Children of the Sun is the third studio album by Australian musician Billy Thorpe, released in 1979. The album spawned the singles "Wrapped in the Chains...
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Vince Melouney (category Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs members)
(1964), Vince And Tony's Two (1965), and The Vince Maloney Sect (1966). Billy Thorpe later joined The Aztecs. Melouney assembled the Australian "supergroup"...
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Australian pub rock emerged in the early 1970s, with bands such as Billy Thorpe & The Aztecs, Buffalo, Coloured Balls and Blackfeather pioneering the...
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Frankie Banali (section With Billy Thorpe)
also played the drums in the heavy metal band W.A.S.P., as well as with Billy Idol. Banali was briefly a touring drummer for Faster Pussycat and Steppenwolf...
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co-written by then-Fleetwood Mac member Billy Burnette. The album was chiefly written by Australian star Billy Thorpe who features in the band. Fleetwood...
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in the 1970s Australian pub rock scene, particularly as a member of Billy Thorpe & the Aztecs on their No. 8 album, The Hoax Is Over (1971) and Coloured...
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Million Dollar Bill (album), the debut album of Australian musician Billy Thorpe "Million Dollar Bill", Whitney Houston song "Million Dollar Bills", by...
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James Francis Thorpe (Meskwaki: Wa-Tho-Huk, translated as "Bright Path"; May 22 or 28, 1887 – March 28, 1953) was an American athlete and Olympic gold...
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featured performances by Australian and New Zealand bands including, Billy Thorpe & the Aztecs, Max Merritt and the Meteors, Chain and Wild Cherries. Various...
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scholar of Anglo-Saxon Billy Thorpe (1946–2007), rock and roll musician Chris Thorpe (born 1970), U.S. Olympic luge athlete Clarence Thorpe (baseball) (1909–1985)...
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disposition of the times in a bold and thunderous fashion". Alongside Billy Thorpe & The Aztecs and Blackfeather, Buffalo pioneered Australia's heavy metal...
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Earls of Duke (1985–1988), Hot Ice (1986), The Outsiders (1989) and Billy Thorpe Band (2005). He also played with fellow Cold Chisel members, Jimmy Barnes...
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William Thorpe William Homan Thorpe (1902–1986), British ethologist William Walford Thorpe (1869–1932), ethnologist of the Australian Museum Billy Thorpe (1946–2007)...
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Year Title Role Notes 1997 Ghost Stories Billy Thorpe Episode: "Personal Demons" 1998 Legacy Hyram Episode: "The Gift" 2000 The $treet Trainee Episode:...
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(ex-Max Merritt and the Meteors, Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs, Doug Parkinson in Focus), Vince Melouney on guitar (ex-Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs, Vince Maloney...
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1975, with the advent of pub rock, was typified by early exponents, Billy Thorpe & The Aztecs, Blackfeather, and Buffalo. Internationally, AC/DC started...
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Jeff Phillips Best New Talent – Robin Jolley Best Songwriter – Billy Thorpe (Billy Thorpe & the Aztecs) Biggest Selling L.P. – Teaser and the Firecat (Cat...
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Australian artists (Tina Arena, Darren Hayes, Jimmy Little, Johnny O'Keefe, Billy Thorpe and Keith Urban), as well as a "duet" with the deceased Peter Allen....
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The Hoax Is Over (category Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs albums)
Hoax Is Over is an album by Australian blues-rock band, The Aztecs. Billy Thorpe, the leader of the Aztecs, renewed the band in late 1968. Guitarist Lobby...
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(1) Stuart Fraser – guitars (5, 11) Tim Pierce – guitars (6, 7, 10) Billy Thorpe – guitars (7), lead vocals (7) Dai Pritchard – guitars (7) Alison Prestwood...
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of the Sun, a children's book by Kenjiro Haitani Children of the Sun (Billy Thorpe album) or the title song, 1979 Children of the Sun (The Sallyangie album)...
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manner. AC/DC's influences include the Rolling Stones, Chuck Berry, Billy Thorpe, the Easybeats and Vanda & Young. The impact of Australian pub rock on...
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West America/Elektra) Judy Tenuta They Might Be Giants Third Eye Blind Billy Thorpe Gina Thompson (The Gold Mind/East West America/Elektra) Thrasher Shiver...
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Jorgensen formed the band Astrid & the Asteroids. The group was awarded the Billy Thorpe Scholarship at the 2012 Queensland Music Awards, and later disbanded...
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bandmate Stevie Wright. The All Stars included, Warren Morgan (ex-Chain, Billy Thorpe & the Aztecs) on piano and vocals, who co-wrote songs with Young. Other...
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clavinet. Doley has recorded and/or toured with Jimmy Barnes, Glenn Hughes, Billy Thorpe, Joe Bonamassa and Powderfinger. Doley has issued one album as a solo...
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drums (ex-Billy Thorpe & the Aztecs), Tim Gaze on lead guitar (Tamam Shud, Kahvas Jute, Ariel), and Warren Morgan on piano (Chain, Billy Thorpe & the Aztecs)...
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Scottish new wave band of the 1980s and mid-1990s Aztek Escobar, a rapper Billy Thorpe & the Aztecs, an Australian rock band of the 1960s and 1970s The Aztecs...
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