Ian D. Marks and Ian McIntyre
The astonishing outpouring of rock’n’roll in the mid-1960s in Australia and New Zealand produced such iconic bands as the Easybeats, the Masters Apprentices, the La De Da’s, Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs, the Loved Ones, and the Missing Links.
It was also the launching pad for a generation of musicians who would go on to far greater fame with groups like the Bee Gees, Little River Band, Daddy Cool, Spectrum, and the Coloured Balls.
But that’s only half the story: there were also many lesser-known bands who also created music of enduring brilliance and power during those explosive years.
From pop icons to underground legends, this book has them all. There are chapters on 35 of the bands who made the scene, along with the authors’ list of the top 100 beat and garage songs of the period.
