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Harry Vanda is a Dutch-born Australian musician, songwriter and record producer. He is best known as a member of the 1960s Australian rock band The Easybeats. ==Career== Vanda's family migrated to Australia from the Netherlands in 1963, and settled in Sydney. Vanda, who had been guitarist with the Hague-based band The Starfighters, came to fame in 1964–65 as the lead guitarist of the popular Australian group The Easybeats. In the same year he met rhythm guitarist George Young in a Sydney migrants' hostel. In 2007, ''Australian Musician'' selected this meeting as the most significant event in Australian pop and rock music history. In 1966, Vanda began a successful and enduring writing partnership with Young; together they penned many of The Easybeats' 1960s recordings, including their major international hit, "Friday On My Mind". After The Easybeats disbanded in 1970, Vanda & Young moved to the UK and continued their writing and performing partnership. In 1973, Vanda & Young returned to Australia and took over as the house producers for leading independent record production company, Albert Productions, and publisher J. Albert & Son. From 1974 onwards they enjoyed huge success in Australia and elsewhere, writing and producing hits for a number of popular Australian groups and solo singers, including John Paul Young, Cheetah, Stevie Wright, Ted Mulry, Rose Tattoo, The Angels, William Shakespeare, Mark Williams and, most notably, AC/DC. AC/DC included George Young's brothers, guitarists Angus and Malcolm Young. Vanda & Young produced landmark albums such as ''Let There Be Rock'', ''Powerage'', ''If You Want Blood You've Got It'', ''Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap'', ''High Voltage/TNT'', amongst others. They also had major international success with their own studio-only project Flash and the Pan, achieving many hits round the world over a 15-year period, particularly in Europe where they had many chart topping records. By the late 1990s, Vanda and Young had left their longtime partnership with Albert Productions, and they both retired from the music industry. However, in 2005, Harry Vanda started Flashpoint Music in Surry Hills with his producer/engineer son, Daniel Vandenberg, setting up one of Australia's premier private studios. First son John married a Dutch woman,Esther Oesterholt and has got two grandchildren in the Netherlands,Mariska and Christian van den Berg.The studio has produced bands such as The Wrights and British India.〔JOHN TAIT. Vanda & Young, Inside Australia's Hit Factory. Published by University NSW Press Ltd. Australia, 2010. (ISBN 9781742232171)〕 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「Harry Vanda」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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