With Friday On My Mind, The Easybeats are the first Australian rock’n’roll band to top the international charts after a meteoric eighteen-month career at home. But that was to be their high-water mark. Why? Join us as we tease apart the tangled web of managerial cock-ups, poor career choices and, of course, drug and mental health issues that doomed the first and arguably best of Australia's pop bands.

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Sources:

Goldsmith, Glenn and Wright, Stevie (2004). Hard Road: The Life and Times of Stevie Wright. Sydney. Random House

Tait, John (2010). Vanda and Young: Inside Australia's Hit Factory. Sydney. University of New South Wales Press

Albert, Jane (2010). House of Hits. Melbourne. Hardie Grant Books.

Spotify playlist of songs featured in this episode: https://open.spotify.com/user/mshannon4-au/playlist/4eWIhj42DbyN8NiTJouURx?si=103abn6URXSTOIxYc46Zcw