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Little River Band Official Website

Little River Band or LRB is an Australian rock band, formed in Melbourne in early 1975. The band chose its name after passing a road sign leading to the Victorian township of Little River, near Geelong, on the way to a performance.

The group evolved from the harmony-rock group Mississippi in 1975. Prior to that, Birtles had been the bassist in 1960s pop band Zoot (which also included singer-guitarist Rick Springfield), and Shorrock had been the lead singer of leading Australian 60s pop band The Twilights and early 1970s country rock band Axiom.

Little River Band enjoyed sustained commercial success not only in Australia, but also in the United States. They have sold more than 25 million records and achieved 13 U.S. Top 40 hits, besides many music awards gained in Australia.

The band's original members were: lead vocals Glenn Shorrock, acoustic guitar and vocals Graeham Goble, rhythm guitar and vocals Beeb Birtles, lead guitar Ric Formosa, bass guitar Roger McLachlan, and drums Derek Pellicci. Goble was the only original member born in Australia. The music and lyrics for most of the group's compositions were primarily written by Goble and Shorrock, with contributions from Birtles, Briggs and Pellicci. In May 2001 the Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA), as part of its 75th Anniversary celebrations, named "Cool Change", written by Shorrock, as one of the Top 30 Australian songs of all time.The classic line-up of Birtles, Goble, Pellicci, Shorrock, guitarist David Briggs, and bass guitarist George McArdle, were inducted into the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) Hall of Fame at the 18th Annual ARIA Music Awards of 2004.

An Australian sextet, Little River Band's debut album sounds as American as anything by the Eagles or the Doobie Brothers, and is driven by "It's a Long Way There" -- whose eight and a half minutes of crunchy electric guitars, luminous acoustic guitar, and smooth harmonizing is spread across a musically dramatic arc that is worth every second of its running time. This is an astonishingly strong debut album. There aren't any surprises, just seven more eminently enjoyable if slightly looser structured mainstream rock songs in the same vein, inventive where they had to be (like on the solos or the variations on the extended choruses), all more modestly proportioned than the hit and thoroughly enjoyable. Guitarist Graham Goble dominated the songwriting with the single and "I Know It," but singer Glenn Shorrock contributed significantly with the delightfully exuberant "Emma" and the hauntingly beautiful movie-within-a-song "The Man in Black," and guitarist Beeb Birtles showed himself no slouch in the ballad department with "I'll Always Call Your Name," which overstays its welcome by about 30 seconds but is otherwise nice and catchy. [The remastering job on the 2001 reissue by Australian EMI is also first-rate, capturing the group's loud, punchy sound and decent annotation about the band's roots and origins.] (SOURCE: All Music )

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Members:
Glenn Shorrock (vocals), 1975-82, 1987-95
Graham Goble (guitar, vocals), 1975-90
Beeb Birtles (guitar, vocals), 1975-83
Derek Pelliccci (drums), 1975-84, 1987-97
Graham Davidge (lead guitar), 1975
Rick Formosa (lead guitar), 1975-76
Roger McLachlan (bass), 1975-76, 1998-99
David Briggs (lead guitar), 1976-81
George McArdle (bass), 1976-79
Barry Sullivan (bass), 1979-80
Mal Logan (keyboards), 1979-80
Wayne Nelson (vocals, bass), 1980-95, 1999-
Stephen Housden (lead guitar), 1981-2006
John Farnham (lead vocals), 1982-86
David Hirschfelder (keyboards), 1983-86
Steve Prestwich (drums), 1984-86
Malcolm Wakeford (drums), 1986
Peter Beckett (guitar, vocals), 1989-97
Tony Sciuto (keyboards, guitar, vocals), 1990-92, 1993-97
Richard Bryant (keyboards), 1992
Steve Wade (lead vocals), 1996-99
Hal Tupaea (bass), 1996-97
Kevin Murphy (drums, vocals), 1999-2004
Adrian Scott (keyboards, vocals), 1998-99
Paul Gildea (guitar, vocals), 1998-99
Glenn Reither (keyboards, saxophone, vocals), 1999-2004
Greg Hind (guitar, vocals), 2000-
Kip Raines (drums), 2004-2005
Chris Marion (keyboards), 2004-
Billy Thomas (drums), 2005-2007
Rich Herring (lead guitar), 2006-
Mel Watts (drums), 2007-

Little River Band - It's A Long Way There

Little River Band "Lady"

Under the Wire - Little River Band