THE LEGENDS of SUNBURY

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Featuring the cream of Australian Artists Sunbury was touted as “The Rock Happening of its time.”. Madder Lake opened the 73, festival to a rapturous response. They went on to support the” Rolling Stones” on their Australian Tour later that year and were the first act to be signed to Mushroom Records- delivering the company their first Gold Record with the brilliant album ‘Still Point’. This album spawned the singles ‘12lb. Toothbrush’ and ‘Goodbye Lollipop’. Next up was Mike Rudd’s Spectrum, arguably Australia’s most popular Progressive Rock Act. Spectrum’s Number One National Hit ‘I’ll Be Gone’, released a year earlier, had already become an anthem with the Australian public – it’s since been covered by Australian artists from John Williamson to Lost Ragas and internationally by Manfred Mann’s Earth Band. Mike was later to record at the famous Abbey Road Studios in England with another of his bands, Ariel, who controversially returned from the UK to play at the last Sunbury. And finally, we have the guitar maestro Phil Manning, well known founding member of Australia’s best Blues/R