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  Long Way To The Top
In 1964, Dutch-born Harry Vanda met fellow Easybeats whilst all were living at the Villawood migrant hostel.
Harry and George still found time to dream up Flash and The Pan with hit singles, 'Hey St Peter' and 'Down Among The Dead Men'.
The contribution of Harry Vanda and George Young to the Australian music industry - as songwriters, recording artists and producers - has spanned four decades, produced countless hits and earned them the coveted Ted Albert Memorial Award for the 'Most Outstanding Contribution to Australian Music' presented by the Australasian Performing Rights Association.
www.abc.net.au /longway/artist_index/harryvanda.htm   (423 words)

  
 Harry Vanda - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Harry Vanda is a Dutch popular music singer, guitarist, songwriter and record producer from Australia.
Vanda came to fame in Australia in 1964-65 as the lead guitarist in Australia's most popular and successful group of the Sixties, The Easybeats.
Vanda and Young also had major international success with their own studio only project Flash And The Pan, scoring many hits round the world.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Harry_Vanda   (534 words)

  
 Somalia Mk 1. The first time that Aussies helped out
Naval lifestyle bred in young Harry an uncompromising discipline, un-nerving curiosity and enthusiasm, inventiveness, a precision for detail, encyclopaedic knowledge, unorthodoxy, legendary skills, a loyal duty to King and country, plus total intolerance for incompetence, which often scared me as a kid imagining the imminent 'demise' of some young insubordinate subordinate.
Harry had a short temper, foul mouthed in the extreme at times with an unprintable vocabulary.
Captain Harry led an exciting life in China and received the OBE when he disguised an armed boat as a sampan to rescue two missionaries and a Roman Catholic Bishop from bandits.
www.diggerhistory.info /pages-hobart/somalia-mk1.htm   (3683 words)

  
 MILESAGO - Producers & Engineers - Vanda & Young
Harry Vanda and George Young are without question one of the most successful writer-producer teams of our time, ranking alongside great names like Lieber and Stoller.
Harry was already an accomplished guitarist, but was still learning English when he joined the band, so the lyrics for all the early hits were co-written by George and Stevie Wright.
By this time Harry had become sufficiently fluent in English to begin writing lyrics, and by the time they arrived in the UK at the end of that year, Harry and George had formed an indivisible writing and production unit that endured for the next four decades.
www.milesago.com /industry/vanda-young.htm   (915 words)

  
 Albert Music
The story of Harry Vanda and George Young is the story of the most successful songwriting and production team in Australian popular music history.
Harry Vanda (from Holland) and George Young (a Scotsman), met in 1964 in a Sydney migrant hostel where they created one of the great rock bands of the 1960's,
Despite this enormous work load Harry and George still found time to invent an alter ego, Flash and The Pan, to explore more adventurous musical terrain, with spoken vocals, varied musical settings and dance rhythms, held together by their rock heritage.
www.albertmusic.com /vanyou/vanyou.htm   (538 words)

  
 NOSJOURNAAL - Harry Vanda, muzikant die emigreerde
Harry Vanda (60) emigreerde begin jaren '60 met zijn ouders van Den Haag naar Australië.
Vanda kwam terecht in een opvangcentrum voor emigranten en begon daar met een paar andere jongens (Dick van der Sluis, Stevie Wright, George Young en Snowy Fleet) een bandje, The Easybeats.
Harry Vanda en John Paul Young treden samen op in het NOS-programma 'Oranje Boven, Down Under', op vrijdag 27 oktober, 20.30 uur op Nederland 1.
www.nos.nl /nosjournaal/dossiers/australie_400/australie_harry_vanda.html   (217 words)

  
 The Easybeats
Vocalist Steve Wright, guitarist George Young and drummer Gordon Fleet (formerly of The Mojos) were all originally from the U.K., as guitarist Harry Vanda and bassist Dick Diamonde hailed from Holland.
Vanda and Young would become full time songwriters/producers as Young would help his brothers Malcolm and Angus form AC/DC.
Vanda and Young would go on to produce many of AC/DC's albums in the 70's as well as producing former bandmate Steve Wright and other Australian acts.
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 APRA Music Awards - Nominations
George Young who along with his Easybeat partner, Harry Vanda produced all of AC/DC's albums of the Bon era up to Highway To Hell noticed the entry when the book was sitting open on the studio console.
Harry Vanda (from Holland) and George Young (a Scotsman), met in 1964 in a Sydney migrant hostel where they created one of the great rock bands of the 1960's, The Easybeats.
In the early 1970's Harry and George returned to Australia and reunited with visionary music publisher and record label owner Ted Albert who provided the pair with the facilities to write for Stevie Wright, William Shakespeare, John Paul Young, Cheetah and Mark Williams and produce among others AC/DC, The Angels and Rose Tattoo.
www.apra.com.au /awards/music/Nom06_AustWorkOverseas.asp   (1093 words)

  
 Bands declare a truce for tribute - Music - www.theage.com.au
Harry Vanda, who co-wrote the classic Evie (part 1) with fellow Easybeat George Young in 1974, said he felt proud watching the performance from a nearby table.
When the new version of the song is released as an EP around Christmas-New Year, Cester hopes it will put rock back at the top of the singles charts, and once again help out the ailing Wright, who, along with charities, will be the recipient of any profits.
Vanda, who says the new version may be better than the original, said that dream is a possibility, considering the new guitar-friendly environment that Jet have helped create.
www.theage.com.au /articles/2004/10/22/1098316856828.html   (602 words)

  
 RNW: Anonymous émigré became pop star   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
They were written by Harry Vanda, who was born in The Hague as Johannes Vandenberg.
The duo Harry Vanda and George Young continued to be successful in Australia.
Harry Vanda is undeniably proud about what he has done for the Australian music industry, but he remains very modest.
www.radionetherlands.nl /radioprogrammes/dutchhorizons/060614dh   (1058 words)

  
 MILESAGO - Groups & Solo Artists - The Easybeats
Harry again excels, contributing an extraordinary, almost backwards-sounding, raga-like solo, and some fiery lead breaks during the concluding bars.
In the new year Harry and George took over a flat in Moscow Rd, which had previously been used as a jingle studio for pirate radio stations; with modifications, it became a 4-track home studio and Vanda & Young began churning out demos, working mostly on their own.
Vanda and Young are now honoured elder statesmen of Australian music; George now lives overseas, but Harry splits his time between Australia and his native Holland.
www.geocities.com /SoHo/Square/8216/easybeats.htm   (8662 words)

  
 Albert Records
It was this sucess that enabled Ted Albert to persude George Young and Harry Vanda to run a recording studio for Albert records.
Harry Vanda and George Young would go on to produce records for numerous Australian acts as well as working on various side projects themselves.
It would be through Vanda and Young that Angus and Malcolm Young would have their first taste of the recording industry whilst working on the Marcus Hook Roll Band project.
www.crabsodyinblue.com /acdcalberts.htm   (1110 words)

  
 acdc   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
In fact, George and Harry didn't take the project very seriously so they though it would be a good idea to include George's brothers to give them an idea of what recording was all about.
After the traditional New Year break in Sydney, AC/DC returned to Albert Studios with Harry Vanda and George Young to record their next album between February and March 1978.
Harry Vanda and George Young came back to act as producers on a full album for the first time since 1978.
www.aussiepub.com /auditorium/acdc.htm   (6547 words)

  
 MILESAGO - Groups & Solo Artists - The Easybeats
After meeting Harry and Dick, he fell in with the jamming scene at the hostel, and there he also became firm friends with another of the hostel's aspiring young rockers, guitarist/singer George Young (b.1948) whose family had recently migrated from Glasgow.
In spite of this terrible tragedy and the ensuing media frenzy, the plans for the trip were not altered and the band had to soldier on with all the requisite media commitments.
The grief-stricken Harry sent his 5-month-old son to be cared for by his parents in Holland, and on the following Thursday (July 10), The Easybeats,Vaughan and Horsburgh flew out for London.
www.milesago.com /Artists/easybeats.htm   (8738 words)

  
 Vanda & Young - Free Music Downloads, Videos, Lyrics, CDs, MP3s, Bio, Merchandise and Links
Dutch-born Harry Vanda and Dick Diamonde were living in Australia when they formed the highly successful Easybeats with English-born Stevie Wright, Scottish-born George Young, and English-born Snowy Fleet, in 1964.
Vanda and Young once again took on sole recording responsibilities for Early Morning Wake Up Call which comprised the singles "Midnight Man"/"Fat Night" (November 1984) and "Early Morning Wake Up Call"/"Look at That Woman Go" (February 1985).
In October 1986, the Easybeats reunited with Vanda and Young for a successful Australian tour and the EP Histor-Easy was released in November as a tour souvenir.
www.artistdirect.com /nad/music/artist/bio/0,,550064,00.html   (613 words)

  
 The Vandas
Over this time, The Vandas have earned a reputation as being one of Australia's finest young bands, touring constantly both on their own and with mentor acts and highly regarded peers such as Elvis Costello, You Am I, Dallas Crane and Even.
Tonight the Vandas were barely contained by the walls of the Alley, it would be a crime against music if in the next few months they're not filling the Arena to capacity, which, as they're drawing their set to a close, the Alley hits..."
Initially I confused The Vandas with a bunch of Brit-pop boys (do their hair styles give it away?), but when they started pumping the tunes I very quickly got back into that rough, stomping groove.
www.thevandas.com /bio.html   (1307 words)

  
 stevie-interview
There were about seven of them in 18 months and Harry Vanda, at the time, was learning to speak English properly.
When I met Harry Vanda he could hardly speak a line of English and now he can speak it better than me - he teaches me words.
Yes, it was mainly because Harry probably concentrated on learning English -- he had a helper Dicky Diamond, the bass player, who was Dutch-Australian, he had come out as a young boy, and he was one of the elders of the Easybeats and he was able to help Harry.
www.geocities.com /milesago2001/stevie-interview.htm   (1324 words)

  
 Albert Music
While Vanda and Young were resurrecting Stevie Wright, they were also helping to launch the careers of George's two younger brothers, Angus and Malcolm, who had first entered a recording studio to play guitar on the album Tales Of Old Granddaddy, by an Vanda and Young alter-ego band known as The Marcus Hook Roll Band.
During the 1970's the versatile Vanda and Young were also turning their hands to well crafted pop.
The contribution of Harry Vanda and George Young - as songwriters, recording artists and producers - has spanned four decades, produced countless hits (for themselves and others) and earned them the coveted Ted Albert Memorial Award for The Most Outstanding Contribution to Australian Music presented by the Australasian Performing Right Association.
www.albertmusic.com /history.htm   (2586 words)

  
 Harry Vanda :: ABC Radio Regional Production Fund
Harry Vanda was one half of the Vanda and Young song writing team.
They have been described as Australia's "Lennon & McCartney" and in the seventies the local charts were filled with their songs.
This radio profile of Harry's story is unique: he saw Australia through an immigrant's eyes, became a local rock star, tasted international fame, then returned to Australia and transformed the local pop scene.
www.abc.net.au /radio/rpf/stories/s1296327.htm   (128 words)

  
 The Easybeats - Biography - AOL Music
By George Young's own account, the band could have gone on writing and playing the same kind of songs for years in Australia and nobody would have minded, but he had ideas for more complex and daring music.
The band decided to call it quits following a return to Australia for one final tour, after which Harry Vanda and George Young became full-time songwriter/producers, helped organize AC/DC (featuring Young's siblings Angus Young and Malcolm Young), and generated the 1973 hit "Evie" for Stevie Wright.
Meanwhile, the Easybeats' complete output has been issued on CD through the Repertoire label (making their 1965-1966 Australian sides widely available around the world for the first time), and anthologies of their work are in print in England and America.
music.aol.com /artist/the-easybeats/4160/biography   (989 words)

  
 Magic In The Air - Easybeats
It is also important to note that the album was really a Vanda/Young collaboration, as the group didn't really exist anymore.
However, a great wealth of unreleased work that was left behind eventually surfaced, salvaged in 1977, when Vanda and Young compiled The Shame Just Drained LP.
Featuring 15 tracks from sessions dating from 1967-68, it shows the Easybeats should have been destined for greater things, but in similar style to the Kinks work of the same time, appreciation came much too late.
ukpsych.tripod.com /easybeats.htm   (339 words)

  
 Studio Connections Picture Book - Albert Productions
His first solo album was produced and co-written by fellow ex-Easybeats Harry Vanda and George Young.
Both of these songs were written and produced by Vanda and Young.
Their first record "Love" was written and produced by Vanda and Young.
members.ozemail.com.au /~tabbler/PicBk/AlbPPicM.html   (769 words)

  
 Australian music icons - Music - Entertainment - theage.com.au
For Vanda it represents an unusual milestone; he and fellow Easybeats songwriter George Young were inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1988 as Vanda and Young.
The Easybeats' induction means Vanda and Young are in the Hall of Fame twice (as is Glenn Shorrock, for work solo and with the Little River Band).
However, Vanda ruled out any chance of an Easybeats reunion for the occasion due to the poor health of singer Stevie Wright.
www.theage.com.au /news/Music/Australian-music-icons/2005/06/15/1118645865917.html   (504 words)

  
 AC/DC biography @ Tartareandesire.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
In February their first single "Can I Sit Next To You Girl / Rockin’ In The Parlour" was recorded at Sydney’s EMI Studios, produced by George Young together with Harry Vanda.
Young and Vanda were to work with the band for several years.
The first album was recorded in ten days at Albert Studios in Sydney with George Young and Harry Vanda as producers once again.
www.tartareandesire.com /bands/acdc.html   (1184 words)

  
 The totally far out British India / Interviews / nd - The Dwarf
But their time would come.” With the way they’re traveling at the moment, their time is closer than we can all imagine.
All that’s left now is for the masses to hear their music, and who better to help them than Harry Vanda, former Easybeat, who has recently finished working with the boy sin the studio on their new EP.
The new Harry Vanda produced EP, COUNTER CULTURE, will be in stores from the 25th October.
thedwarf.com.au /nd/layout/set/print/interviews/the_totally_far_out_british_india   (746 words)

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