This is the world's first Enseeklopedia' - a treasure trove of
stories, music analysis and rare memorabilia. Moreover, it is a
long overdue salute to Australia's Fab Four and their enduring
recording catalogue. In tracing contemporary Australian music,
history will recall the four young Melbourne musicians who started
the ball rolling internationally for every big name Australian
artist who would follow in their footsteps. Folk and gospel group
The Seekers - featuring the golden voice of Judith Durham, Athol
Guy, Keith Potger and Bruce Woodley - set sail for the UK in 1964
on a working holiday, totally unaware of the global fame and
fortune that lay ahead. Chart-topping hits, gold and platinum
record awards, soldout tours and record-breaking crowds in the 60s,
and again in the reunion years since 1993. In this publishing
first, renowned Australian authors Christopher Patrick (ABBA: Let
The Music Speak) and Graham Simpson (The Judith Durham Story
Colours Of My Life) have joined forces to produce the first-ever
Seekers coffee table book an in-depth and highly informative look
at the recording history of Australia's first supergroup. Their
forensic analysis of every song The Seekers recorded in the 50
years between 1963 and 2013 sits comfortably with peeks behind the
scenes, never-before-revealed facts, fascinating trivia, and a
kaleidoscope of photos and memorabilia much of it never seen
before. With a good tour guide, you see so much more when you know
what it is you're looking at; Chris has approached The Seekers'
song list from a musician's perspective, undressing every song the
group ever recorded to reveal the vocal and instrumental craft at
play. Graham has brought to the coffee table his penchant for
fascinating Seekers minutiae, and an archive of memorabilia
gathered from all over the world over five decades. The Seekers
were the very first group to put Australia on the international
music map, and they will be forever known for knocking The Kinks,
The Beatles and The Rolling Stones off the top of the UK charts,
and The Monkees from the Number One spot on the American charts
with their global phenomenon, the Academy Award-nominated song
"Georgy Girl." They were clean-cut, clean-living Aussie youths when
the rollercoaster began; their music was wholesome and free of
gimmicks. The Seekers came, sang and conquered in the Sixties, yet
the footprint they left on the international music map is as
indelible today as it was half a century ago. If you have a
favourite Seekers musical memory, it's in this book. If you want to
know who played what; or how they got that sound'; or who Pierrot
and Columbine were this is the book for you. If you like the
photography and artwork of the Sixties, then you'll love the images
captured by some of the top pop photographers of the era, and the
many obscure record covers from every corner of the globe. Why were
there two different versions of several songs; how did a sad song
called "Downhearted Blues" turn into the chart-topper "A World Of
Our Own"?; and who sneezes at the end of the 1967 recording of
"Myra"? It's in here.
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