80's Australia Influence

Through many international influences via music in 1980’s, it has been made clear that the world’s influences on Australian pop culture and society has been quite significant. The Australian music scene was majorly dominated by American and British influences in the 80’s, resulting in large overseas influences on society. Let’s take a step back in time, to the 1950’s and early 60’s, Australia’s music scene had just embraced the American culture shock that was rock ’n’ roll. Australia took the overseas influence with stride and mixed it with their own style of surfer music to create a new version of rock ’n’ roll, with rocker’s such as Col Joye and Johnny O’Keefe vamping up the nation. I know we’ve all heard of the Beatles right? Most likely your grandmothers boyband of choice, yet we still know them today. This is because in 1964, the Beatles were ripping up the charts, dominating Australia with their British influence. The Beatles made quite an impact on society and created such a phenomenon that their music created Beatle-mania worldwide. The Beatles were lucky, as most bands didn’t survive the 60’s, an example would be the band Easybeats, who after releasing local hit songs in Sydney, the band moved to England to expand their audience, however, after releasing the worldwide hit song Friday on My Mind the band evaporated like many others. …show more content…
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