Vale Stevie Wright

[Ford Fairlane]

Stevie Wright, who fronted rock outfit The Easybeats in the 1960s and is widely regarded as Australia's first international pop star, has died at the age of 68.

Stevie Wright dead at 68

 

[Garibaldi Red]

Sad news but not unexpected unfortunately. He had been through a fair bit in his lifetime.

RIP Stevie

 

[PAWt]

Sad but surprising he lived that long

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

In honour of Stevie Wright's passing. Loved that the ABC replayed Blood & Thunder doco ( shown earlier this year) last night and part 2 on tonight and whilst it was about the artists Ted Albert signed up, the Easybeats and Stevie's solo comeback with his Opera house show in particular, dominated part I.




The whole of episode 1 is at the ABC iView link below. From the 46 minute mark a fair bit of the doco is about Stevie's comeback after Easybeats and partnering up with George Young and Harry Vanda who had cut him out of songwriting with the Easybeats. The collaboration started off with Evie parts , 1, 2 and 3 - 3 songs in one. At about 52.15 they interview Stevie (from 2014) and he is almost unrecognizable after the ravages of heroin and other drugs have changed his appearance so much.

http://iview.abc.net.au/programs/blood-thunder-the-sound-of-alberts/DO1404H001S00

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

part 2 of blood and thundder was on tonight. its on iView at

http://iview.abc.net.au/programs/blood-thunder-the-sound-of-alberts/DO1404H002S00

 

[bushwood]

Yeah caught most of it, very well made. Will have to watch the whole thing, watching a docco on youtube at the minute called Friday on my mind. Such an influential band, Stevie was a hell of a front man RIP.

 

[werner]

Evie 1-3 has always been my nomination as the best Aussie rock song ever ...

 

[Garibaldi Red]

Evie 1-3 has always been my nomination as the best Aussie rock song ever ...

The remake done by The Wrights, with Bernard Fanning, Chris Chaney and a few other Australian musicians, was also great

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

The pub across the road from me - the band for new years eve - belted out parts 1, 2 and 3 in a nice tribute

 

[edgie]

There's a lot of Easybeats era Stevie Wright in Bon Scott.

 

[bushwood]

There's a lot of Easybeats era Stevie Wright in Bon Scott.

He would have been a good fit post Bon Scott

 

[edgie]

He would have been a good fit post Bon Scott

Rumours are he was considered by his extra curricular activities meant there was a line through his name straight away.

 

[bushwood]

Rumours are he was considered by his extra curricular activities meant there was a line through his name straight away.

Yeah you're right, I didn't think about what state Stevie was in at that time. The docco I saw said that Vanda and Young from the Easybeats had their song writing to focus on and Stevie at 22 was a lost soul of sorts when the band ended.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

There's a lot of Easybeats era Stevie Wright in Bon Scott.

That was the Harry Vanda and George Young influence, on two very strong willed, showy and cheeky front men.

 

[edgie]

Yeah you're right, I didn't think about what state Stevie was in at that time. The docco I saw said that Vanda and Young from the Easybeats had their song writing to focus on and Stevie at 22 was a lost soul of sorts when the band ended.

The last thing the band wanted at the time was another member with substance abuse issues, not that Bon had addiction issues, I reckon he just really loved the stuff and to party and be social.
If he had of been taken to a hospital instead of left in a driveway, he would've learned his lesson.





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[bushwood]

That was the Harry Vanda and George Young influence, on two very strong willed, showy and cheeky front men.

They were very similar weren't they, so confident with that cheeky lust for life nature about them. When I think of Stevie its that first line in Friday on my mind where he does that head bobble it just looked as though he was saying this is going to be one hell of a ride.

 

[bushwood]

The last thing the band wanted at the time was another member with substance abuse issues, not that Bon had addiction issues, I reckon he just really loved the stuff and to party and be social.
If he had of been taken to a hospital instead of left in a driveway, he would've learned his lesson.





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Yeah what could have been, very sad stuff.