Greg Quill

Greg Quill (* 1947 in Sydney, Australia, † May 5, 2013 in Hamilton, Canada) was an Australian musician, singer and journalist. Until his death, he worked as a columnist for the Toronto Star newspaper. Greg was known as the lead singer of the Australian band Country Radio in the late 1960s and 1970s.

Life and work

Early life and music career

Quills music career began in the 1960s as a solo artist in Sydney, where he also received his BA in 1970 made in English Language and Literature. He worked briefly as a teacher at a Catholic high school in Bankstown, a suburb of Sydney, until he was hired by David Elfick as editor. In addition, he was hired as editor of the weekly pop magazine Go- Set, as a columnist and as a regional editor.

During this time, operational Quill The Shack, a popular venue in the late 1960s in Narrabeen, a suburb of Sydney on the northern beaches. Music producer Gus NcNeil (a former rock singer of Sydney rock band Gus & The Nomads ) took quill in his own music label Music Cellar under contract.

1970 produced McNeil also Quills first commercial recording of the single Fleetwood Plain and the accompanying album of the same title for EMI Australia. The album was released by EMI subsidiary Harvest Records, though the first single Fleetwood Plain was released by Columbia Records.

To promote the album, Quill founded the band Country Radio.

After the music career

1978, dissolved the band while on tour in Australia and Quill returned alone back to Canada. This led first to the end of his music career. In Canada, he married Ellen Davidson and started a family. Quill was a prominent journalist and songwriter.

Quill worked for various magazines and published books about Bon Jovi (1987 ), Michael Jackson ( 1988), The Rolling Stones ( 1989) and many other artists.

Since 1983 he was a journalist and joined occasionally on TV and radio as a commentator on. He also worked as a columnist for the Toronto Star.

Return to Music

The spontaneous reunification in 1999 in Melbourne with two of his former band members left Quill return to the music career.

In 2003, the new album So Rudely Interrupted by Greg Quill and Kerryn Tolhurst, a former member of the band Country Radio. The album of the duo was released in Canada by True North Records.

From June 2006 to March 2008 Quill had a weekly radio show Canadian River of Song on Sirius Canada.

2009 Quill went back to Australia to two shows to host in his hometown, where he was supported by his former band members.

2011 Quill toured to Australia's east coast; He also took on a new album which should be released in 2012. Last Quill appeared with the band Ironbark.

Death

A month before his death gave Quill known a collaboration with Warner Music Australia to release his old recordings from the 1970s and 1980s again. Moreover, he planned to return to Australia to give concerts and thereby to promote the sale.

Greg Quill died in May 2013 at the age of 66 years of pneumonia and recently diagnosed sleep apnea. Until his death, he worked as a journalist for the Toronto Star.