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Billy Thorpe (The Official Site)

Forever Rockin (1946-2007)

About Me

Dear Supporters:Welcome to the official Billy Thorpe MySpace site which is being run by his family after his untimely passing on Feb 28th, 2007. This site is dedicated to keeping his music and spirit alive and we welcome all your stories and well wishes, but please respect his memory and do not post advertising comments on this page...as he would say 'keep rockin' and we thank you for visiting our site. CLICK HERE TO BUY NOW from Liberation Acoustic Series...........Or get your copy from your local music retailer or from iTunes..........LETS MAKE IT NO. 1 IN THE AUSSIE CHARTS!!!Please check out the last recording that we all had the privilage to attend at The Basement on the night of December 16th, 2006. Enjoy & help make it No. One in the Aussie charts! To purchase the lastest Billy Thorpe release, visit your local music retailer or their on-line store or directly from the label by clicking here: Liberation Acoustic SeriesCheck out the video for Girls of Summer

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 4/24/2007
Band Website: thorpie.com
Influences: This is a great montage we found...thank you to the person who put it together :-)
Record Label: various
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

Inaugural Billy Thorpe scholarship winner

We would again like to congratulate Micheal Gavriel for being the first recipient of the Billy Thorpe Scholarship!!!!This award is administered by Arts Queenland and provides a structured range of sup...
Posted by Billy Thorpe (The Official Site) on Wed, 20 Aug 2008 05:17:00 PST

Most People... added to National Registry of Recorded Sound

Minister for the Arts, Peter Garrett announced the top 10 entries for the 2008 Sounds of Australia (National Registry of Recorded Sound) initiative at NFSA headquarters in Canberra on 18 June.  L...
Posted by Billy Thorpe (The Official Site) on Mon, 23 Jun 2008 06:55:00 PST

One Year On

Well we have made it past  the one year anniversary of Billy's passing (Feb 28th),  Getting here  has been a rough road, but all of your kind words have been of great sup...
Posted by Billy Thorpe (The Official Site) on Fri, 29 Feb 2008 03:26:00 PST

Billy appointed a Member of the Order of Australia

..> ..> As long time managers and professional colleagues of the late Billy Thorpe, Michael Chugg and Chugg Entertainment are proud to announce his inclusion in the Order of Australia Quee...
Posted by Billy Thorpe (The Official Site) on Sun, 10 Jun 2007 03:49:00 PST

Daughters to promote new album - tune in

We (Rusty & Lauren) have decided it is time to step up to the plate and do what Dad would have done with the realease of his first Australian album in 30 years, promote it!   We have been doi...
Posted by Billy Thorpe (The Official Site) on Tue, 29 May 2007 10:54:00 PST

Press

 Daily Telegraph 2-6-07 Daily Telegraph 29-5-07...
Posted by Billy Thorpe (The Official Site) on Tue, 29 May 2007 10:38:00 PST

Links to classic Billy video

Here is a shortlist of links to classic Billy videos...feel free to send through any others you may find along the way. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sSDrDQ0VEU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76FVtF...
Posted by Billy Thorpe (The Official Site) on Wed, 16 May 2007 10:06:00 PST

Jack Awards

You Am I gave a tribute to the late rocker Billy Thorpe while a supergroup lead by Rose Tattoo frontman Angry Anderson and including members from You Am I, The Divinyls, Grinspoon and The Sleepy Jacks...
Posted by Billy Thorpe (The Official Site) on Wed, 16 May 2007 07:47:00 PST

Wikepedia site

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Thorpe
Posted by Billy Thorpe (The Official Site) on Wed, 16 May 2007 11:17:00 PST

Billy Thorpe slideshow!

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Posted by Billy Thorpe (The Official Site) on Thu, 26 Apr 2007 10:09:00 PST