In March 1989, The Saints had an Australian Top 40 hit with a cover of The Easybeats ' song " The Music Goes Round My Head ", which also featured in the 1988 film Young Einsteins soundtrack.

The only official recordings they made — which provided the songs for the last Easybeats single — was the rocking " St Louis " ( presaging their later work with AC / DC ), and the B-side " Can't Find Love ", recorded in April at Olympic Studios with Ray Singer, a former member of UK band Nirvana, who had made a name for himself as a producer with Peter Sarstedt's " Where Do You Go To ( My Lovely )".

Divinyls also had Australian hits with cover versions of The Easybeats ' " I'll Make You Happy ", and Syndicate of Sound's " Hey Little Boy " (" Hey Little Girl " with the gender switched ) which reached No. 25 in 1988.

* " Heaven & Hell ", a song by The Easybeats released as a 1967 single and on the album Best of The Easybeats – Volume 2, 1969

* The Easybeats, " Heaven & Hell ", and an un-released album titled " Good Times " ( 1967 )

George Redburn Young ( born 6 November 1946, Bridgeton, Glasgow, Scotland ) is a Scottish rock musician, songwriter and record producer, best known as a member of Australian 1960s band The Easybeats, the co-writer of the international hits, " Friday on My Mind " and " Love Is in the Air ", and for his production of the hard rock band, AC / DC, which features his younger brothers Malcolm and Angus Young.

Easybeats lead guitarist Harry Vanda is probably the best-known Maton player of the Sixties, and his famous red Maton Sapphire semi-acoustic 12-string ( which he donated to the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney in 1999 ) was an integral part of the Easybeats ' sound throughout their career, and features prominently on hit singles like " I'll Make You Happy ".

In the 1970s, he was jointly credited with former Easybeats members Harry Vanda and George Young as a co-composer of the song " Pasadena ".

Vanda and Young remained in the UK for three years, working to pay off debts incurred during the Easybeats years ( and recording under various names like Paintbox, Band of Hope, Grapefruit, Haffy's Whisky Sour and Marcus Hook Roll Band ).

Ex-The Easybeats members, Harry Vanda and George Young, who were now record producers and songwriters, asked Models to cut some demos – so they reformed at the end of December.

Malcolm Young plays a Red 1963 Gretsch Double-cutaway Jet Firebird guitar handed down to him by Harry Vanda, along with elder brother George Young, of Easybeats fame.

" Bad Boy for Love " was produced by Vanda & Young ( ex-The Easybeats, AC / DC's producers ) and peaked at No. 19 on the Australian Kent Music Report Singles Chart.

" Bad Boy for Love " was produced by Vanda & Young ( ex-The Easybeats, AC / DC's producers ) and peaked at No. 19 on the Australian Kent Music Report Singles Chart.

He then went on to score a major hit with The Easybeats songwriting team, Harry Vanda & George Young song, " Falling In Love Again " in 1971.

Vanda, who had been guitarist with a The Hague based band The Starfighters, came to fame in 1964-65 as the lead guitarist in Australia's most popular and successful group of the 1960s, The Easybeats.

* Harry Vanda ( Easybeats )-String Arrangement

* Harry Vanda ( Easybeats )

Starting his career in Sydney, and attending Sefton High School as his secondary school, George Young first achieved international success in the 1960s as the rhythm guitarist in the band The Easybeats ; Young co-wrote nearly all of their songs, first with singer Stevie Wright, then later with lead guitarist, Harry Vanda.

Flash and the Pan was an Australian New Wave musical group ( essentially an ongoing studio project ) initiated during the late 1970s by Harry Vanda and George Young, both former members of The Easybeats.

International acts such as the Bee Gees and the Easybeats were also prominent in the development of psychedelic pop.

Roxon also played host to many Australians who visited the city, including The Easybeats and singer Lynne Randell and artists including Clifton Pugh.

He also produced Friday on My Mind for The Easybeats, an Australian band that had relocated to England.

* " Friday On My Mind "-The Easybeats ( 1966 ) Aust # 1, US # 16, UK # 6, also recorded by David Bowie and Gary Moore

Maton earned international renown for their superb acoustic and electric guitars and basses, which have been played by scores of famous performers from The Easybeats to The Wiggles.

David Bentley, Mick Liber, David Montgomery and Tony Cahill ( bass ) ( who had played drums with The Easybeats ) made some recordings in 1972 with English guitarist Gary Boyle.

In 1973 David Bowie covered the song on his Pin Ups album, and in 1977 the punk band London introduced the song to a new generation on a four-track EP for MCA Records ; the London version, produced by Simon Napier-Bell, was actually recorded in the same studio ( IBC Studios in Portland Place ) in which the Easybeats had cut the original.

In 2007 they resurfaced to bring out their next studio album, So Easy, which contained cover versions of The Easybeats songs.

Whilst perhaps not boasting the significant cultural contributions of neighbouring Burwood ( the suburb in which The Easybeats and AC / DC were formed and cricketing legend Don Bradman was married ), Strathfield has made a contribution to Australia's cultural landscape.

They are named after Australian music legend and former Easybeats frontman Stevie Wright, and original performer of the song-trilogy " Evie " which was the group's feature song.

After The Easybeats disbanded in 1969, Wright fronted numerous groups including Stevie Wright Band and Stevie Wright & the Allstars ; his solo career included the 1974 single, " Evie ( Parts 1, 2 & 3 )", which peaked at # 1 on the Kent Music Report Singles Chart.

Among the most successful were The Easybeats, formed in Sydney but who recorded their international hit " Friday on My Mind " ( 1966 ) in London and remained there for their forays into psychedelic-tinged pop until they disbanded in 1970.

Sydney inductees into the ARIA_Hall_of_Fame include Johnny O ' Keefe, Col Joye (& The Joy Boys ), Billy Thorpe ( the original Aztecs formed in Sydney ), The Easybeats, Sherbet, Richard Clapton, John Paul Young, AC / DC, Radio Birdman, Midnight Oil, Rose Tattoo, Mental As Anything, INXS, Icehouse, Divinyls, The Church and Hoodoo Gurus.

In October the band made a valedictory TV appearance in the ATN-7 Easybeats Special, then gave their final Sydney performances at the Trocadero and Caesar's Disco.

Their sound was influenced by 1960s garage acts ranging from the Electric Prunes, The Standells, The Chocolate Watch Band to The Easybeats.

While US and British content dominated airwaves and record sales into the 1960s, local successes began to emerge – notably The Easybeats and the folk-pop group The Seekers had significant local success and some international recognition, while the bands the Bee Gees and AC / DC had their first hits in Australia before going on to international success.

Friday on My Mind, by The Easybeats.

Some of the best-known and most popular acts in this period were Billy Thorpe & the Aztecs and Ray Brown & The Whispers, The Easybeats, The Bee Gees, The Masters Apprentices, The Twilights, The Groop, The Groove, The Loved Ones and cult acts like The Throb and solo star Normie Rowe, who quickly became Australia's most popular male pop vocalist.

Others that made the journey were The Easybeats ( the first rock band to crack the UK market ), The Twilights, The Groove, Lloyds World and the La De Das.

He has worked with such artists as Bob Dylan, The Beatles, The Easybeats, The Band, The Rolling Stones, The Who, Led Zeppelin, Eagles, Eric Clapton, The Clash, The Steve Miller Band, Small Faces, Spooky Tooth, The Ozark Mountain Daredevils, Blue Öyster Cult, Linda Ronstadt, Emmylou Harris, Midnight Oil, New Model Army, Belly, Joe Satriani, Ronnie Lane, Rod Stewart with Faces, Joan Armatrading, Buckacre, Gallagher and Lyle, Georgie Fame, Family, Helen Watson, Fairport Convention, Humble Pie, Band of Horsesand many others.

While US and British content dominated airwaves and record sales into the 1960s, local successes began to emerge – notably The Easybeats and the folk-pop group The Seekers had significant local success and some international recognition, while the bands the Bee Gees and AC / DC had their first hits in Australia before going on to international success.

Other acts such as The Knickerbockers, The Easybeats and The Outsiders contributed iconic singles.

magazine championed power pop in its March 1978 issue, tying the genre's roots to 1960s groups like The Who and The Easybeats through Raspberries of the early 1970s.

* Easybeats – provided vocals on their single " Good Times " from the LP Vigil in 1968.

The Easybeats were an Australian rock band.

After initial lack of interest, on the last scheduled day of his visit Vaughan was able to convince United Artists Records to sign The Easybeats.

Once the tour was over, The Easybeats drifted apart, although there was no official announcement of the split.

The 2000s saw a band calling itself " The Easybeats " tour and make TV appearances around Europe.

One possible homage is heard in a later section of " Lovin ' Machine " by the Easybeats.

Brothers Nic Cester and Chris Cester grew up in Dingley Village, a suburb just out of Melbourne, Victoria, and attended St Bedes College Mentone, listening to their father's classic rock records from the 1960s and 1970s, such as The Who, AC / DC, The Easybeats, Faces, The Loved Ones, and particularly The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, and John Lennon.

Isolated from the diversity of genres in the northern hemisphere, Australian mainstream record labels tried to replicate the success of trends imported from overseas and produce radio friendly singles by successful artists such as John Farnham and The Easybeats.