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Ella Fitzgerald

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 c boredom 1har

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).