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yo up wh en yo u trl C'd to ge t rid of lhem , And, as w e wn tc hcd. I ht? eig ht hn PP.Y youn g peopl e swam, with th(' g irl s ge t ting quite a d ve nturou s 1111d go ing way out beca u se t hcy kn ew th ey hnd lifesave r s o n the spo t b eside th em. Then th ey n il dried o lT on playthings In n n earby h a rk - n r oundabout n nd a sllpp('ry-dlp w:i~~dt t1gtri~Tt~c~~ee~g:~~:in~~ncl~!c~r~'~'l n h a nd an d a pretty gi rl ln the ot h er. It was ba ck to work. b ut the m em ory of th e fun they had Jus t h a d would ca rry th em thro ug h th e h a rd ya kker a h ea d RELAXING WITH THE DELL TONES ' F o u r luc ky g irls ll a1>e r elaxing tim e with A 11streilia' s top male quart et te at B ron te B each. S ydn61/ • Delltones are :tJl , ~'=»Ml !e_!ll.1 ~ ~ep .:water. S ' Jl ast the cl u bhouse at Sydney's • trP P d - and • Beach one of these ays I JJroo ~ U bear the mellow notes of "you 1]1lght we ! Th e Delltones ringing out.

T}IE clubhoUSC is the onl y place th ey h ave to racuse-and it's easy for P "ck out for a d,p thelXl to ru : the t,oomin g s

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LTHOUGH rhe majority of Aussies are quick to eel• ebra1e lbe glories of

L Oz rock these days, r-=-'cal ways that way l'&t, uch 10 lbe conuary, and fascinar.ing si~~

senes prerruenng C early in Augutr cu I y To rh, Topr. ofAustralian Rocle & Roll

!aka us back 10 th e beginwhen rhc conservative who controlled this ia lbe ' SO. ICaChed • mcnl panic in response l'.'1. they JlCl'.C"ived was lbe ~nvas100 of entenain•

al the new ICCl!age

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BY RITCHIE YORKE

wan1ed young Aussies not 10 be exposed 10 the so n of seminal music being produced by Ameri• can colo ured people, whi c h we nl against the grain of our lingering obsession with the Whjte Aus• tralin policy

As one of J o hnny O ' Keefe's

baclc:up musicians points our in the li,sr episode of long Way To th, Top: " We d idn ' t h ear llflY black music here. It wasn't being played So Johnny was very sman - he cottoned on 10 tha t and figured tha t was the wny to go."

But O ' Keefe had 10 create a music indusuy ro unde,pin his

medin ro shrug off its anti-rock re luclance.

One Sydney DJ by the name of Tony Withers p redic ted rh e ne w music would be dead in nine mon rh s, bur later chang ed his mi nd and c limbed o n the bandwagon.

A TV s tat ion (C h annel 9 ) appoi nted ns hos t of irs Band• , rand forma l (borro wed fro m th e US) a hoSI so straight (Brinn Henderson) that h e still rends Sydney'• e vening ne ws 10 1his day

z tee ns lo ved rhe arrival of rock ' n ' roll, bur lhe Es1ablis h -

Among the stars of the first episode of long Way To th, Top are O'Kecfe (pic1ured, above front, wirh the Dellro ncs), Col Joye, pio neering M elbo urne DJ Sran Rofe, Judy Stone an d individual members of our early rock bands

In subsequen l episodes, expec t 10 sec The Loved Ones, Mas1crs Apprcn r ices, The Easybeats , Billy Thorpe and The S eekers (episod e rw o); Daddy Coo l , M ixtures a nd Lo bby Lloyd (episode three); Renee Geyer, John P au l Young, Cold C h ise l , Skyh ooks, Rose Ta u oo, A C/DC (episode fo ur) ; Men a t Wo rk, Midnight Oil, INXS, Mental As Any lhing (epi sode live); and Chri s 1i nc Anu , Yot hu Yind i, Kylie Minogue, The Cruel S ea, silverch oi r (e pisode six).

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