![]() He remained a campaigner for HIV-AIDS awareness all his life.Ī committed music journalist and blogger, Lovegrove posted his last entry on Music Backtrack the day before his death. These personal struggles were depicted in two documentaries, the award-winning Suzi's Story and A Kid Called Troy, shedding light on the disease at a time when community attitude was in panic mode. Bon Scott) Live - Single The Valentines Play full songs with Apple Music. Bon Scott) (Live) Featured In Album Build Me Up Buttercup (feat. In 1985, Lovegrove learnt that his wife, US actress Suzi Sidewinder, had contracted the AIDS virus via a blood transfusion and had passed it on to their infant son, Troy. OVERVIEW LYRICS Music Video Build Me Up Buttercup (feat. Lovegrove forged new approaches in the Australian music industry, possibly mindful of the raw deal he and Scott endured back in their days with The Valentines.Īs manager of the Divinyls, Lovegrove was one of the first Australian managers to strike a direct deal with a US label rather than go through an Australian company.Īnd while the 80s was a hype-driven era, he insisted the Divinyls not do interviews, in order to increase their mystique. ![]() ![]() Later, he became godfather to Jimmy and Jane Barnes' daughter Eliza Jane and tour managed Barnes through Europe in the 90s. Verse 1 'I'll be over at ten', you told me time and again But you're late, I wait around and then (Ba-dah-dah) I went to the door, I can't take any more It's not you, you let me down again. He briefly managed a young Cold Chisel and in later years would recall driving the band home after a gig, dodging the fists of vocalist Jimmy Barnes and late drummer Steve Prestwich as they brawled inside the car. In some respects The Valentines pre-dated the boy band craze by decades, though it was Lovegrove who several years later introduced a decidedly more rough-and-ready Scott to AC/DC.Īfter The Valentines, Lovegrove made an impact as a music journalist in both print and television from A Current Affair to The Don Lane Show. About Press Copyright Contact us Creators Advertise Developers Terms Privacy Policy & Safety How YouTube works Test new features NFL Sunday Ticket Press Copyright. Lovegrove, who was born in Fremantle in 1948, died at the weekend in a car crash in the Byron Bay hinterland in NSW. "He was very passionate about what he did but needed to do it his way." "Vince was a maverick," said Christie Eliezer, industry correspondent for the Music Network and Pollstar magazine. He caused uproar when he told pop magazine Go Set that marijuana should be legalised. Amazing.In spite of The Valentines' innocent demeanour, Lovegrove's forward looking, pragmatic nature held sway. (*Sorry about the exclamation marks at the start, but I’m continually surprised at how many songs Harry Vanda and George Young actually wrote, and for the sheer amount of artists they handed their songs over to. If you want to know more about this band who, as the years roll by, is fast becoming a fascinating footnote in Australian rock history, Milesago has this mighty informative page.Īs a bonus, here are The Valentines with their cover of “Build Me Up Buttercup” complete with Bon Scott lurking in the background (as second vocalist again), and everyone looking rather resplendent in their late-60’s finery:īy the way, Milesago says that The Valentines’ matching outfits were scarlet. ![]() The Valentines lasted only two years (1967-1969). Actually, Vince earns his own slice of rock immortality as it was he who introduced Bon to the members of AC/DC. As for the lead singers, Vince went on to become a rock journalist and band manager, and Bon went on to achieve rock immortality. Beg Boogie Shoes Brown Eyed Girl Build Me Up Buttercup Cant Help Myself. (If you’re not from Australia, and under the age of 40, you’ll have no idea what any of that means.) The notes also tell me that “My Old Man’s A Groovy Old Man” was The Valentines’ highest charting single, reaching number 12 in Sydney in 1969.Īfter that, it seems, the band broke up, but everyone remained in the music industry in one way or another. 2 – which reminds me that I never got around to buying Volume 1) tell me that The Valentines were formed in Perth in 1966 and won the Western Australian heat of Hoadley’s National Battle Of The Sounds in 1967. The liner notes on the compilation album that I found this song on ( The Best Singles Of All Time, Vol. That’s Vince, not Bon, singing lead on “My Old Man’s A Groovy Old Man.” The Valentines are notable not just for being yet another recipient of the Vanda and Young songwriting here-have-a-song ethos, but also for having two lead singers, one of whom was Bon Scott. Here are hip ‘n’ happenin’ purveyors of Swinging 60’s pop, The Valentines, with “My Old Man’s A Groovy Old Man” (1969): Yet another Vanda and Young composition! And yet another one they gave away! And I had no idea they wrote it!*
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