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Bernard Patrick "Doc" Neeson OAM (4 January 1947 – 4 June 2014) was an Australian singer-songwriter and musician. He was the front man for the hard rock band The Angels from its formation in February 1976 to their disbandment in December 1999. For the group Neeson was the main lyricist with brothers, John and Rick Brewster, as the music composers. Their top 20 studio albums on the Australian Kent Music Report Albums Chart are ''Face to Face'' (June 1978), ''No Exit'' (June 1979), ''Dark Room'' (June 1980), ''Night Attack'' (November 1981), ''Watch the Red'' (May 1983), ''Two Minute Warning'' (November 1984) and ''Howling'' (October 1986). Their number-one album, ''Beyond Salvation'', on the ARIA Albums Chart appeared in February 1990 and was followed by another top 20 album, ''Red Back Fever'' (November 1991). The group's top 20 singles on the related Australian charts are "No Secrets" (1980), "Into the Heat" (1981), "Never so Live" (1981), "We Gotta Get out of This Place" (1987), "Am I Ever Gonna See Your Face Again" (live, 1988), "Let the Night Roll On" (1990) and "Dogs Are Talking" (1990). On 20 October 1998 at the ARIA Awards the group were inducted into the Hall of Fame. In early December 1999, three weeks prior to his performance at the Tour of Duty - Concert for the Troops in East Timor, Neeson had a car accident on the Sydney M4 motorway; later that month The Angels disbanded. On 10 January 2013 Neeson's Facebook page announced that he had been diagnosed with a brain tumour and would undergo immediate treatment. He died of the tumour on 4 June 2014, aged 67. ==Early life== Bernard Patrick Neeson was born on 4 January 1947 in Belfast, Northern Ireland.〔 His father, Bernard James Neeson (born 1918), was a British Army soldier, and his mother was Kathleen ''née'' Corrigan (born 1916).〔〔 Neeson was the eldest of six children; his younger siblings are Seamus (born 1948), Anthony (born 1950), Maureen (born 1953), Terence (born 1957), and Kevin (born 1958).〔 They were raised as Catholics although the family lived in a predominantly Protestant area of Belfast. He attended boarding school at Terenure College in Dublin. On 14 April 1960, when Bernard was 13, the Neeson family emigrated to Adelaide aboard SS ''Strathnaver''.〔〔 They settled in the suburb of Elizabeth.〔 As a teenager he had promoted dances and in mid-1967 he advised an Adelaide group, Down the Line: "Y'know, you should change the name to something short and punchy like Zoot".〔 After completing secondary education, Neeson entered an Adelaide teachers college, "my first career option was to become a teacher, certainly never thought of having a career as a musician".〔 Before completing his course Neeson was conscripted for national service into the Australian army during the Vietnam War.〔 He served as an education corps sergeant in New Guinea for eighteen months in the late 1960s.〔〔 He subsequently attended Flinders University, completed degrees in film and drama, and intended to become a film director.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Doc Neeson」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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