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Purple Hearts
Purple Hearts
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Billy Thorpe & the Aztecs
Billy Thorpe & the Aztecs
Australian pop and rock group dating from the mid-1960s
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The Hollies
The Hollies
English pop group formed in Manchester in the early 1960s
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The Throb
The Throb
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Wild Cherries
Wild Cherries
musical artist
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The Easybeats
The Easybeats
Australian rock band
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The Seekers
The Seekers
Australian band
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John Farnham
John Farnham
Australian singer
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The Masters Apprentices
The Masters Apprentices
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Billy Thorpe
Billy Thorpe
English-born Australian singer-songwriter, producer, and musician (1946-2007)
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The Loved Ones
The Loved Ones
Australian rock band formed in 1965 in Melbourne
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Gary Shearston
Gary Shearston
Australian singer and songwriter
Normie Rowe
Australian singer and entertainer

Normie Rowe

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Australian singer and entertainer
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Member of the Order of Australia

Norman John Rowe AM (born 1 February 1947) is an Australian singer and songwriter of pop music and an actor of theatre and soap opera for which he remains best known as Douglas Fletcher in 1980s serial Sons and Daughters. As a singer he was credited for his bright and edgy tenor voice and dynamic stage presence. Many of Rowe's most successful recordings were produced by Nat Kipner and later by Pat Aulton, house producers for the Sunshine Records label. Backed by his band, The Playboys, Rowe released a string of Australian pop hits on the label that kept him at the top of the Australian charts and made him the most popular solo performer of the mid-1960s. Rowe's double-sided hit the A-side, a reworking of the Doris Day hit "Que Sera Sera" /with b-side "Shakin' All Over" was one of the most successful Australian singles of the 1960s.

Between 1965 and 1967 Rowe was Australia's most popular male star but his career was cut short when he was drafted for compulsory military service (called National Service in Australia) in late 1967. His subsequent tour of duty in Vietnam effectively ended his pop career. Unable to recapture the musical success he enjoyed at his peak in the 1960s, he carved out instead a career in theatre and television.