A Guy Called Athol by Brian Wimborne, Graham Simpson and Ray Kennedy

This is the biography of Australian musician and member of the legendary Australian music group The Seekers Athol Guy and in this book it talks about his upbringing in Melbourne, his parents' divorce, started singing with the Ramblers and the Escorts,forming the Seekers in 1962 who would go on to great success overseas being the first Australian group to do so with classics including I'll Never Find Another You, A World Of Our Own, The Carnival Is Over, Georgy Girl and many others, hosting Tv shows, being an Member of Parliament in Victoria as well as an businessman and horsebreeder, the passing of his wife Toni and many others. It is FANTASTIC, BRILLIANT and SUPERB with impressive, Brilliant and very entertaining stories and also an FANTASTIC read which it is very well worth it. Athol is doing an musical project with legendary Australian singer and actor Ted Hamilton and Dame Olivia Newton John did the Foreword which was before her passing as well as Graham Simpson who wrote the this book and who is an archival gatekeeper of the Seekers since 1993 as well an columnist, radio commentator and writer and Interviewer and Cyrus Meher Homji who is Senior Vice President for Universal Music Australia in the Classics and Jazz and arts and entertainment did tributes and also the other 2 guys Brian Wimborne who knew Athol Guy since the school doing research and Ray Kennedy who knew athol since 1969 when Ford Motor Company recruited Athol an musical director to form an group to perform at car launches and dealer functions which was the Going Thing . This is an must for Seekers fans as well as Australian music fans and I give it 5 stars as you can only get it online at theseekers.com.au so do yourselves an favour and BUY IT which you will be impressed and amazed and it's the 2nd biography of a Seekers member as Judith Durham who passed away last year had the Colours of My Life book by Graham Simpson in 1994 which would be reissued over the years.

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