Australian rock 'n" roll music

Australia has produced different varieties of rock and popular music that are well recognized internationally work such as the works of the Bee Gees, AC/DC, INXS, Nick Cave, Savage Gardenm the Seekers or Pop Diva Kylie Minogue to the popular local content of John Farnham, Jimmy Barnes or Paul Kelly, as indigenous Australian music and Australian jazz that have also passed numerous influence in this genre.

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The brightest stars of the early Australian rock and roll were Col Joye and Johnny O’Keefe. O’Keefe introduced a band in 1956, his hit “wild one” made him the first Australia rock ’n’ roller to reach the national charts. Despite the fact that United State and British content emerge airwaves and record sales into the 1960’s, local successes began to dominate. The Easybeats and the folk pop group, the seekers had an important local success and some international acknowledgement while the bands, the Bee and Gees and AC/DC had their first hits in Australia before going into the international success.

Pub rock was vastly popular in the 1980’s and the period was characterized by AC/DC, Divinyls, Mental as anything. The Midnight oil, the choirboys, the Angels, Noiseworks, Air Supply, Cold Chisel and Icehouse. INXS and Men at Work also achieved fame worldwide, and the song “Down under” became an unofficial anthem for Australia. The Australia hip pop started in the early 1980’s, mainly influenced by overseas works, but at the end of 1990 a unique local style had dominated, with groups such as the Hilltop Hoods achieving international acknowledgement for their work.

In 1990’s there was an increase in the popularity of indie rock in Australia. AC/DC and INXS continued to reach commercial success in the United State, whereas a multitude of local bands which include Jebediah, Magic Dirt, Spiderbait, the Superjesus, Regurgitator, You Am I, Ice cream Hands, Powderfinnger, Silverchair ad something for Kate, were popular throughout the country. A small electronic music scene dominated around the Sydney and Melbourne, with Severed Heads, Ollie Olsen’s No, and Foil all peaking in the 1990’s.

Australia music tested somewhat of a rock renaissance in the 2000’s with the groups such as the Vines, Jet, airbourne and Wolfmother charting internationally. Hilltop Hoods were the first Australian hip pop group that reach the top of the ARIA chart.

In mid of 1950, American rock and roll spread over the world. Sydney’s independent record label Festival Records was the first to get on the movement in Australian, releasing Bill Haley and His Come’s Rock around the clock in 1956. It became the biggest selling Australia single ever released up to this period.

American borne entrepreneur Lee Gordon, who came in Australia in 1953 played a key role in creating the popularity of rock and roll with his famous Big show tours, which brought to Australia several leading America rock ’n’ rollers including Bill Haley and His Comets, Little   Richard, Bo Diddley, Eddie Cochran, Gene Vince, Buddy holly and the Crickets ad Jerry Lee Lewis.

Also, Gordon was instrumental in launching the career of Johnny O’Keefe, the first Australian rock star, who rose to celebrity by imitating Americans like Elvis Presley and Little Richard. O’Keefe and other first wave bands were known until about 1961 when the wave of clean-cut family band took their place.

The mainstream audience in the early sixties preferred a clean-cut style which characterized by the acts that comes on the Nine Network pop show bandstand, but there are number of grungier guitar oriented bands in major cities like Sydney and Melbourne that were stirred by American and British instrumental and surf acts like Britain’s shadow who applied many influence on Australian and New Zealand music prior to the domination of the Beatles and American like guitar legend Dick Dale and the Surfaris. Meanwhile Australian instrumental groups of this time include the Atlantics, the Denvermen, the Thunderbirds, the Planets, the Dee Jays, the Joy Boys, the Fabulous Blue Jays and the Whispers.