The Easybeats win over the locals with She’s So Fine, do a deal with United Artists in the US, then give Australia its first international hit with Friday on My Mind in 1966.
Alberts hits flood the charts, not just rock & roll but also cracking pop; Ted Mulry’s Falling in Love Again, Alison MacCallum’s Superman, John Paul Young’s Pasadena and Love is in the Air.
Music company Alberts and the Youngs from Glasgow formed a bond. AC/DC played so loud and with such raw energy that the music reverberated across the world.
It’s 1964. The conservative, cultured Albert music dynasty and the Young family, residents of the Villawood Migrant Hostel, both have music running through their veins. Their sons come together and one of the most exciting periods in Australian cultural history begins.
Ted Albert wants Australia to have its own songbook. He first signs Billy Thorpe & The Aztecs then The Easybeats, founded on the raw talent of teenager George Young and two other irrepressible migrant kids Harry Vanda and Stevie Wright.