Glenn Shorrock - 60 Years Of Music - Avoca Beach

With a career spanning over 60 years, Glenn Shorrock is one of the elder statesmen of Australian contemporary show business. Born in England, Glenn migrated at the age of 10 to Adelaide in the mid-1950s.

A self-confessed child of rock n’ roll, he began singing in 1962 with a vocal group called the Twilights. By 1965, the Twilights became a six-piece beat group based in Melbourne, scoring hits with Needle in a Haystack, What’s Wrong with the Way I Live?, Cathy Come Home, and Young Girl, before disbanding in 1969.Axiom, with Brian Cadd, followed shortly thereafter, with hits including Arkansas Grass and Little Ray of Sunshine.

In 1970, Axiom disbanded while in London. Glenn chose to remain in London as a session singer and songwriter, working with other ex-pats and Europeans in a twelve-piece rock orchestra named Esperanto.In late 1974, Glenn returned to Melbourne to help form Little River Band as lead singer. Managed by long-time friend Glenn Wheatley, Little River Band cracked the lucrative United States market in 1976 and began a string of eight Top Ten hits in the U.S.A. and around the world.