Billy Thorpe
Timeline 1956 10-year-old Bill begins performing on Brisbane TV as Little Rock Allen…
Timeline
1956 10-year-old Bill begins performing on Brisbane TV as Little Rock Allen. Later opens for Jerry Lee Lewis, Col Joye, Johnny O'Keefe
1963 Joins the Aztecs in Sydney
1964 Second single, Poison Ivy, keeps the Beatles from #. Somewhere Over The Rainbow is second #1
1965 Debut album, Billy Thorpe & The Aztecs. Band draws 63,000 to historic Myer Music Bowl gig.
1966 Thorpe hosts live TV rock show, It's All Happening! Demise of Mk II Aztecs
1969 Billy launches heavy rock phase with Aztecs Mk III
1970 LSD-fuelled The Hoax Is Over album
1971 Legendary Melbourne Town Hall gig recorded and released
1972 Signature tune, Most People I Know (Think That I'm Crazy), hits #1. Aztecs Live! At Sunbury celebrates pivotal event in Australian rock
1973 Band plays Sunbury '73, appears on debut 3LP Mushroom release Thumpin' Pig and Puffin' Billy LP, with Aztec Warren Morgan.
First rock show at Sydney Opera House yields double Aztecs album
1974 More Arse Than Class LP causes moral outrage
1975 Almost Summer appears on Million Dollar Bill album
1976 Pick Me Up & Play Me Loud, last Oz album before US relocation
1977 Billy continues writing/ production/ sessions with Jeff St John, Angry Anderson, Wendy Saddington, the Who's Tommy
1979 "Space rock" LP Children of the Sun hits #1 in several US cities.
1980 21st Century Man LP continues US arena conquest
1981 Stimulation LP
1982 East Of Eden's Gate LP
1984 Retires from rock for electronics, production, film music ventures
1985 Time Traveller compilation
1990 Shakin' the Cage album with Mick Fleetwood's band, Zoo Inducted into ARIA's Rock'n'Roll Hall of Fame
1993 Lock Up Your Mothers box set heralds Aztecs' triumphant return
1996 The Billy Thorpe Band launches first bestselling autobiography, Sex and Thugs and Rock'n'Roll
1998 Second bestseller, Most People I Know (Think That I'm Crazy)
2006 Dec 16: last recorded performance at the Basement in Sydney
2007 Feb 28: Billy dies of cardiac arrest in Sydney
Apr 14: Solo: The Last Recordings released
2008 Moroccan recording project, Tangier, due for posthumous release
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