Glenn Shorrock

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Glenn Shorrock

With a career spanning over 60 years, Glenn Shorrock is one of the elder statesmen of Australian
contemporary show business.

Born in England, Glenn migrated at the age of 10 to Adelaide in the mid-1950s. A self-confessed child
of rock n roll, he began singing in 1962 with a vocal group called the Twilights. By 1965, the Twilights
became a six piece beat group based in Melbourne scoring hits with Needle in a Haystack, What’s
Wrong with the Way I Live? Cathy Come Home and Young Girl, before disbanding in 1969.
Axiom with Brian Cadd followed shortly thereafter, with hits including Arkansas Grass and Little Ray
of Sunshine. Soon after, in 1970 Axiom disbanded whilst in London. Glenn chose to remain in London
as a session singer and songwriter working with other ex-pats and Europeans in a twelve-piece rock
orchestra named Esperanto.

Late 1974, Glenn returned to Melbourne to help form Little River Band as lead singer. Managed by
long-time friend, Glenn Wheatley, Little River Band cracked the lucrative United States market in
1976, and began a string of eight Top Ten Hits in the U.S.A. and around the world. The band has sold
in excess of 30 million albums, often being credited for opening the door for many Australian acts on
the international circuit. In 1995, Glenn fronted Little River Band during their 20th year anniversary,
three and a half-month tour of the United States. His songwriting credits include the international hits
Help is on its Way, Emma, Home on Monday (co-writer Beeb Birtles), Long Jumping Jeweler, Shut
Down Turn Off, My Own Way Home (co-writer Brian Cadd) and Cool Change.

Glenn’s credentials extend to all fields of show business, notably in theatre and cabaret where he
starred in Evita, The Rocky Horror Show, One for the Money, Go Cat Go and Two Up. A career
highlight was producing and performing alongside Sir George Martin in the highly acclaimed
production All You Need Is Beatles (1998). He performed the role of Johnny Casino in the smash hit
Grease: The Arena Spectacular!, which played to full houses across Australia and in Auckland; co
starred in British Rock Symphony with Eric Burdon and Thelma Houston, performing the hits of the
Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Rolling Stones and The Who; and toured Australia with the
successful Long Way to the Top concert series with Axiom and Twilights.

2002 re-introduced Glenn, Graeham Goble and Beeb Birtles on stage as Birtles Shorrock Goble
performing the famous classics with which Little River Band captured the world and produced the Full
Circle DVD, a live concert recording of them performing at the Forum Theatre in Melbourne.
Glenn also regularly performs on behalf of various charities and continues as an ambassador for
Variety. As a testament to his enduring talent, he has been twice inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame
first in 1991 in his own right and again with The Little River Band in 2004.