| Little River Band is an Australian rock band formed in Melbourne in 1975 and named after a road sign for the Victorian township of Little River, near Geelong.They were the first Australian rock group to enjoy sustained commercial success in the United States.Original albums
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6.They found immediate success in Australia, but individual members had greater ambitions.Britain and the United States in the early 1970s, enabled him to help LRB become the first Australian group to enjoy sustained commercial and chart success in the United States.Fuelled by a very successful Australian hit single "Curiosity Killed The Cat", the band began making promotional visits to the US in 1976.This resulted in a hit single, "It's A Long Way There", which broke into the Top 30 and galvanised the commitment of the band members.During this period McLachlan left the group and was replaced by George McArdle while lead guitarist Formosa, who quit the band in order to pursue other musical interests, was replaced by David Briggs.However, Formosa remained in touch with his former bandmates, and conducted and wrote string parts for several Little River Band songs after he officially left the band.From 1978 until 1981, Little River Band achieved six consecutive US Top 10 singles with "Reminiscing", "Lady", "Lonesome Loser", "Cool Change", "The Night Owls" and "Take It Easy On Me".Wayne Nelson joined in 1980 and is currently the lead singer.Housden owns the rights to the name Little River Band.Australia "Love is a Bridge".Australia with a cover version of Bobby Darin's "Dream Lover".Subsequent singles were only minor hits.In Australia the band continued to be popular and songs such as "Down On The Border" and "Playing To Win" were major hits.Birtles left in 1983 because he did not like the direction the band was taking and he was not a fan of Farnham's onstage performance.Farnham left in 1986 to be replaced by the returning Shorrock(in 1987).Derek Pellicci left the band in 1998.Little River Band today
Little River Band are considered to be among Australia's most significant bands.Three founding members, Birtles, Shorrock and Goble, continue to perform reunion concerts but due to the fact they lost the rights to the name Little River Band, they appear under the name Birtles Shorrock Goble: The Original Voices of Little River Band."Reminiscing", written by Goble, was recognised by BMI as one of the most frequently played songs in the history of American radio, with more than four million plays to its credit.Little River Band continues to work in the US and performs around 100 shows every year.External links
Little River Band official website
Stephen Housden's official site
Birtles Shorrock Goble
Beeb Birtles' site
Graeham Goble's site, includes preview clips from his latest album
Glenn Shorrock's Official Page
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1.When Little River Band formed in 1975, Australia immediately took notice.Velvelettes' "Needle in a Haystack."Glenn Wheatley had been the bassist with another of Australia's bands, and possibly its most legendary, the Masters Apprentices.Given all that background, when Shorrock and Birtles revealed they were forming a group with Goble, managed by Wheatley, it was major event in Australian music.They had all had a shot at international stardom via England, without success.Little River Band was formed to conquer the world from Australia via America.With that in mind they almost immediately went into the studio, even before the rest of the band had been consolidated.Everly Brothers' "When Will I Be Loved" as a single, a recording that was shelved when Linda Ronstadt also happened to choose that song as a single.The following May they released a second album, After Hours, and in September of that year set off on their first trip overseas to support Queen at Hyde Park and the Average White Band in the U.Graham Goble had written the song about the long trip taking his laundry back to his mother in Adelaide from Melbourne.Another important hit in America, in Australia it went all the way to number one.It was followed by Sleeper Catcher, again produced by Boylan, the first album recorded in Australia to sell over a million copies in the U.This was the song John Lennon confessed he made love to during his "long weekend" separation from Yoko Ono.Internally, relationships were not as happy.Only on stage were they "together."During one break between American tours, Graham Goble started writing and producing an album for Australian pop legend John Farnham.He then agitated the band to replace Glenn Shorrock with Farnham.Farnham walked straight into the recording studio to record The Net.More lineup changes followed, including the departure of Beeb Birtles.In all, John Farnham recorded three albums with LRB over four years.The experiment never worked.Whatever Farnham's talents, America longed for Glenn Shorrock.Glenn Shorrock and Derek Pellicci rejoined Goble, with "new boys" Wayne Nelson and John Housden to record the Monsoon album and its single "Love Is a Bridge."In 1990, Goble left Little River Band as a touring member, and the band as we'd known it finally called it a day in 1991.For a while drummer Derek Pellicci mounted Little River Band tours with a lineup including Glenn Shorrock.Use of this site is subject to express terms of use, which prohibit commercial use of this site.All Music Guide is a trademark of All Media Guide, LLC.Charts
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