Lobby Loyde
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Lobby Loyde: Turn It Up
Monday, Apr 23 2007|by Troy D Colvin
Lobby Loyde did it first and he did it loudest. In August, when he was offered belated recognition at the age of 65 and inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame, Lobby Loyde was too ill to speak, but he still managed to strap on a guitar to play. That’s a fitting reflection of a life spent playing music since the early 1960s, a career that includes R&B outfit the Purple Hearts, psychedelic combo the Wild Cherries, a …
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Lobby Loyde: 1941-2007
Monday, April 23 2007 at 12:00 PM
Legendary Australian guitarist and songwriter Lobby Loyde passed away in a Melbourne hospital late on Saturday night after a long battle with lung cancer. Loyde – born John Baslington Lyde in Queensland in 1941 – was one of the most influential figures in the evolution of Australian rock music, with…
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Lobby Loyde
Beyond Morgia: The Labyrinths of Klimster
Wednesday, Mar 21|by Shane Moritz
Let’s pretend that the science fiction screenplay for which this disc would have been the soundtrack for was sensational, I mean utterly mind-boggling, at least now that we know Lobby threw the sucker on the fire the night before he bolted for London in ‘76. The crazy, mad bastard! Beyond Morgia fad…
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