Heaven (or hell?) is gonna ROCK tonight!

One of the very few Aussies who spent much of his musical career in the states and managed to remain an Aussie rock legend.


Pub rock at its finest
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sSDrDQ0VEU&mode=related&search=

Children of the sun
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jI326uggWU

Blimey.

Cor lummey.

Did he do anything a non-Aussie may recognise?

Poor cobber. So, he was a bit of all right, and fair dinkum, then?

Well, he was not the messiah, but he WAS a very naughty boy.


And a fine pub rocker, as dadpad says.

children of the sun was pretty big

Billy moved to the US in 1976. Children of the Sun was released in 1979 Top twenty. Billy headlined his own sold out tours through 1979 and 80.
Sometime there abouts his record lable went belly up. Polygram assumed the rights.

Lived as fast as he died. At least in the early years.

They should have a one minute silence up at The Cross.

I find that faintly patronising. (I know you don't mean to be edgar).

Heard the music now buy the book

http://cgi.ebay.com/BILLY-THORPE-SIGNED-Sex-Thugs-RocknRoll-1963-Music_W0QQitemZ160089511584QQihZ006QQcategoryZ66489QQcmdZViewItem

Not patronizing at all.

Wow, that was THE song my first year living in the dorms at college. Holy crap, that was twenty years ago. **** I'm old. Anyway, I don't know how we got into the song. I think my buddy Dean had it on CD. It's really weird though...other than hearing it at college on someone's CD player, I don't remember ever hearing it at all. Ever. Okay, I might have heard it on the local classic rock station once. I don't think Billy was very big in the states.

But strangely, for a little while, we were listening to it all the time in the dorm. There were some great drunken nights that ended with a bunch of stoned people piled all over each other in somebody's room, blasting that song, and air drumming to that cool electric-drum solo at the beginning. All under the dark amber glow of "the red bulb," which was the only light allowed to be on in the room when listened to Billy. I can still see it like it was yesterday. I gotta go listen to that song now.

Thanks for the memories, Mr. Thorpe. Rest in peace.

Most people I know think that I'm cra-a-a-zy!

Great Billy Thorpe hit!

That is the reason Thorpie made music. If you knew him you would understand how much pleasure that paragraph would have given him.