Easybeats and Jehovah...?...Say Whaaaat...

by jaydee 2 Replies latest social entertainment

  • jaydee
    jaydee

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iW2_Ec3uEU

    ....' It's not all so uplifting, though. Wright's womanising and heroin use (dated here to the mid-1960s, not the early '70s as is generally accepted) regularly threaten to derail things; Dick is torn between his Jehovah's Witness upbringing and the temptations of the road. '....

    Read here..

    http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/tv-and-radio/friday-on-my-mind-the-story-of-the-easybeats-is-a-great-immigrant-success-story-20171121-gzpkdm.html

  • stuckinarut2
    stuckinarut2

    My father was an aspiring musician in Australia at the same time as the Easybeats rose to fame.

    My father could have also been something great if not for the religion.

    He was a huge fan of the Easybeats - and will be mortified to learn this!

  • smiddy3
    smiddy3

    I`m going to have to watch this later,

    .I think it was the 1963 International Convention in Melbourne Victoria when Vandesluy`s brother? Bob and his wife stayed at our house during the convention.They turned up with a small trailer towed behind their car and they wanted to sleep out their but we insisted they sleep in the house.

    We moved to Redcliffe Qld congregation where his married sister? Henja eventually ended up at .

    I often wonder if they are all still in the religion ?

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