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Billy Thorpe
William Richard "Billy" Thorpe,〔(【引用サイトリンク】Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA)">title="Most People I Know Think That I'm Crazy" at APRA search engine )〕 AM (29 March 1946 – 28 February 2007) was a renowned English-born Australian pop / rock singer-songwriter and producer, musician. As lead singer of his band Billy Thorpe & the Aztecs, he had success in the 1960s with "Blue Day", "Poison Ivy", "Over the Rainbow", "Sick and Tired", and "Mashed Potato"; and in the 1970s with "Most People I Know Think That I'm Crazy".〔〔 NOTE: Used for Australian Singles and Albums charting from 1970 until ARIA created their own charts in mid-1988.〕 Featuring in concerts at Sunbury Pop Festivals and Myer Music Bowl in the early 1970s, the Aztecs also developed the pub rock scene and were one of the loudest groups in Australia.〔〔 NOTE: On-line copy has limited view.〕
Thorpe also performed as a solo artist; he relocated to the United States from 1976 to 1996 where he released the space opera ''Children of the Sun'',〔 which peaked in the top 40 of the ''Billboard'' Pop Album chart in 1979. He worked with ex-Aztec Tony Barber to form a soft toy company in 1987 and co-wrote stories for ''The Puggle Tales'' and ''Tales from the Lost Forests''. Thorpe also worked as a producer and composed music scores for TV series including ''War of the Worlds'', ''Star Trek: The Next Generation'', ''Columbo'', ''Eight Is Enough'' and ''Hard Time on Planet Earth''.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Billy Thorpe (I) )〕
Thorpe returned to Australia in 1996 and continued as a performer and producer, additionally he authored two autobiographies, ''Sex and Thugs and Rock 'n' Roll'' (1996) and ''Most People I Know (Think That I'm Crazy)'' (1998).〔 According to Australian rock music historian Ian McFarlane, "Thorpie evolved from child star, beat pop sensation and cuddly pop crooner to finally emerge as the country's wildest and heaviest blues rocker () Thorpie was the unassailable monarch of Australian rock music".〔 Thorpe was inducted into the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) Hall of Fame in 1991.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Winners by Award: Hall of Fame )〕 He died of a myocardial infarction in February 2007 and was posthumously appointed a Member of the Order of Australia in June for his contribution to music as a musician, songwriter and producer.
==Early life==
Billy Thorpe was born in 1946 in Manchester England. His parents and he emigrated to Australia in 1955, arriving in Melbourne and then settling in Brisbane, Queensland.〔〔 He performed as a ten-year-old under the pseudonym Little Rock Allen.〔〔〔 Six months later, after he was heard singing and playing guitar by a television producer, Thorpe made regular musical appearances on Queensland television.〔〔 He toured regional venues with Reg Lindsay in 1961, and national venues with Johnny O'Keefe and with Col Joye.〔〔 By 1963, as an experienced singer and musician, he decided to relocate to Sydney.〔〔
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