| Started
performing |
Brisbane |
Sixties
line-up
Seventies line-up |
Billy
Thorpe (vocals) Col Baignet (drums), Tony Barber (guitar), Vince
Maloney (Lead guitar), John 'Bluey' Watson (bass)
Billy Thorpe (vocals, guitar), Warren Morgan (piano), Kevin
Murphy (drums) Paul Wheeler (bass) |
| Key
singles |
Apr
64 Blue Day
May
64 Poison Ivy
Aug 64 Mashed Potato
Oct 64 Sick And Tired
Dec 64 Over The Rainbow
Jun 65 I Told The Brook
Jul 65 Twilight Time
Sep 65 Baby Hold Me Close
Dec 65 Love Letters
Jul 66 The Word For Today
Oct 71 The Dawn Song
Apr 72 Most People I Know
Nov 72 Believe It Just Like Me
Apr 73 Captain Straight Man (Billy Thorpe and Warren
Morgan)
Sep 73 Movie Queen
May 74 Over The Rainbow (live)
Dec 75 It’s Almost Summer (Billy Thorpe) |
Key
albums
|
Jun
65 Billy Thorpe And The Aztecs
Aug 66 Don’t You Dig This Kind Of Beat
Feb 71 The Hoax Is Over
Dec 71 Aztecs..Live
Sep 72 Live At Sunbury
Jul 73 Thump’n Pig And Puff’n Billy (Billy Thorpe and
Warren Morgan)
Jun 74 More Arse Than Class
Dec 75 Million Dollar Bill (Billy Thorpe)
Aug 79 Children Of The Sun (Billy Thorpe)
Apr 80 Children Of The Sun (Billy Thorpe)
Jul 94 Lock Up Your Mothers (compilation)
Apr 07 Solo:The Last Recordings |
| Web
sites |
Unofficial
Billy Thorpe
A fan site notable for its collection of interviews. |
| Reading |
Thorpie!
an overview of BIlly Thorpe's career with commentary on his
recordings. Paul McHenry. Moonlight Publications, 1994.
Sex and thugs and rock 'n' roll: a year in King's Cross 1963-1964.
Billy Thorpe. Macmillan, 1996.
Most people I know (think that I'm crazy). Billy Thorpe.
Macmillan, 1998. |
