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  • George Assang – Heartbreak Hotel

    Rock n’ Roll, George Assang was an Indigenous Australian

  • Billy Haley - Rock Around the Clock

    Rock n’ roll music led to misbehaviour in teenagers

  • Bill Haley’s Tour

    Rock n’ Roll really took off

  • Johnny O’Keefe, The Wild One

    First genuine Australian Rock n’ Roll hit

  • The Atlantics – Bombora

    Surf Music boom, teenage boys wanted guitars to be ‘cool’

  • CBS/HMV

    Highpoint of surf music craze in Australia

  • The Beat Boom

    Beatles tour, rock n’ roll bands were in

  • Easybeats and Normie Rowe

    Australian artists and their influence in England

  • Skyhooks, Sherbet, John Paul Young

    Countdown / Double J (baby boomers)

  • You just like me ‘cos I’m good in bed - Skyhooks

    Double J started broadcasting

  • Double J became Triple J

  • The Go-Betweens

    Exodus of Australian music

  • Music related activities add $1.55 billion value to Australian economy

  • Triple J became a national network

  • Music related activities add $6.82 billion value to Australian economy

  • 2010 Hottest100

    Angus and Julia Stone and Little Red

  • Independent assault on Europe and North America

    The Jezabel’s

  • Triple J launched Triple J Unearthed – devoted to unsigned Australian bands

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