Billy Thorpe And The Aztecs – The Best Of Billy Thorpe (VG/VG) – LP, AU 1965

The Best Of Billy Thorpe is an LP by Billy Thorpe And The Aztecs from 1965 released on the Parlophone label.

About this album

The Best Of Billy Thorpe gathers the early work that made Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs one of Australia’s most forceful beat groups. Drawn from their mid-1960s rise, the compilation captures the band’s mix of rock’n’roll drive, pop hooks and R&B lift, with Thorpe’s commanding vocals at the centre. Songs such as Over The Rainbow, Hallelujah! I Love Her So and Sick ’n’ Tired show how the group could move between novelty, balladry and outright swagger while helping define local beat-era pop. For listeners interested in the foundations of Australian rock, this collection documents an artist and band that became hugely influential well before their later hard-rock peak.

Genre: Pop & Rock