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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Billy Thorpe & the Aztecs, he had success in the 1960s with "Blue Day", "Poison Ivy", "Over the Rainbow", "Sick and Tired", "Baby, Hold Me Close" and "Mashed...
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Aztecs Live! At Sunbury was a double live album released in August 1972 by Australian hard rock group Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs, which was recorded...
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Vince Melouney (category Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs members)
founded the bands The Vibratones (1963), The Aztecs (1964), Vince And Tony's Two (1965), and The Vince Maloney Sect (1966). Billy Thorpe later joined The Aztecs...
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Australians and New Zealanders in mid-1970. The quartet comprised Johnny Dick on drums (ex-Max Merritt and the Meteors, Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs, Doug Parkinson...
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The 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...
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Mashed Potato (dance) (redirect from The Mashed Potato)
Time" and "Gravy (For My Mashed Potatoes)", both by Dee Dee Sharp. In Australia the dance underwent a revival with Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs' version...
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the Street" by Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs (3), "The Sound of Silence" by Simon & Garfunkel (3), "Listen People" by Herman's Hermits (3), "Come and See...
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where such acts as Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs and the Easybeats also performed. The only catch was getting the elusive hit record, the Bee Gees ended up...
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and vocals (ex-Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs, the Bee Gees), alongside Teddy Toi on bass guitar (ex-Max Merritt and the Meteors, Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs)...
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Tony Barber (musician) (category Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs members)
artist, papercrafter and soft toy designer who emigrated to Australia in 1963. He was a member of the band Billy Thorpe & the Aztecs in the 1960s. Subsequently...
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Australia. The tour featured Col Joye, Lonnie Lee, Judy Stone, Ray Columbus & the Invaders, Lucky Starr, Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs, Little Pattie, The Masters...
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they were one of the top three bands in the country, beside Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs and Daddy Cool, during that year. In spite of the successes, internal...
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Lobby Loyde (section Wild Cherries and Aztecs)
figure 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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Sharpies (Australian subculture) (category Australian fringe and underground culture)
hard rock groups such as Rose Tattoo, Lobby Lloyde and the Coloured Balls and Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs. Photographer Rennie Ellis has included portraits...
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Tangier (album) (redirect from Tangier (Billy Thorp album))
Nimmervoll, Ed (2007). "Billy Thorpe (and the Aztecs)". HowlSpace: The Living History of Our Music (Ed Nimmervoll). Archived from the original on 14 April...
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Texan 1960s psychedelic punk, James Brown, the Silver Apples and Australian band Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs. The band were instrumental in organising a series...
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Powder Monkeys (redirect from The Powder Monkeys)
performances during 1994 and supported tours by Deniz Tek Group and by Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs. Jed Sayers left at the end of that year and the band continued...
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(Powderfinger) – vocals Warren "Pig" Morgan (Chain, Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs) – piano Harry Vanda (The Easybeats) – string arrangement Phil Jamieson (Grinspoon)...
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1964 song by Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs "Sick 'N' Tired", a song by Ms. Dynamite from her 2002 album A Little Deeper "Candle (Sick and Tired)", a 2008...
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Poison Ivy (song) (category Songs written by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller)
The second version appeared on a 1972 compilation of the Rolling Stones called More Hot Rocks (Big Hits & Fazed Cookies). Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs...
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on bass guitar, Eligio Sincic on sitar and tablas, and Jimmy Thompson on drums (ex-Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs). Ray Brown (born 15 February 1945) died...
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Gil Matthews on drums (ex-Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs), Henry Vyhnal on electric violin and Jim Keays on lead vocals (ex-The Masters Apprentices). Australian...
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Australian band Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs released the song as a single following the release of an EP called I Told The Brook in 1964. The single went...
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Chain (band) (category Pages using the EasyTimeline extension)
left in August and was replaced by Tim Piper (ex-Electric Heap) on bass guitar. Morgan, who left to join Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs, was replaced by...
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Baby, Hold Me Close (category Rock-and-roll songs)
Billboard, February 27, 1965. Billy Thorpe And The Aztecs – Baby, Hold Me Close. Discogs. Billy Thorpe and The Aztecs. Baby, Hold Me Close. PopArchives...
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Ooh Poo Pah Doo (category The Shirelles songs)
version of the song on their 2016 album Everything Under the Sun - Osaka, Japan 1968. Australian blues rock band Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs recorded a...
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Bee Gees (redirect from The Bee Gees)
Andrews, Travis M. (22 June 2023). "Billy Crystal, Dionne Warwick, Barry Gibb to Be Kennedy Center Honorees." The Washington Post. Retrieved 1 July 2023...
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Wild Cherries (redirect from The Wild Cherries)
A Cow Records. Loyde went on to join Billy Thorpe & the Aztecs, then formed Lobby Loyde & the Coloured Balls and also had a solo career. In 1964, Melbourne...
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Pub rock (Australia) (section Expansion of the sound)
rock emerged in the early 1970s, with bands such as Billy Thorpe & The Aztecs, Buffalo, Coloured Balls and Blackfeather pioneering the sound by incorporating...
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