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The Bluestars
12+ albums
Garage Rock60sNew Zealandgaragefreakbeat
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The Bluestars began life as the Nomads around 1961. Murray Savidan and Roger McClay were school friends at Auckland Grammar, where they played at school concerts. John Harris was recruited on drums and his friend Rick van Bokhoven joined as a singer. When Roger McClay left the group in early 1964, a reshuffle moved Savidan to bass, Harris to lead guitar and van Bokhoven to rhythm guitar. A new recruit was Jim Crowley, who took over the role of drummer. At this point they changed their name to the Bluestars. Modeling themselves on the Shadows style of music, they started playing at church and youth group dance engagements, but after hearing the Beatles first album, they made a major change to their style of music. This proved successful and they started selling out venues around Auckland's eastern suburbs. While the majority of the music was covers, they did do some original stuff and in 1964 they were invited to record a couple of these as demos for Eldred Stebbing's Zodiac Records. Nothing seemed to come from this, so they continued playing the suburban dance circuit, steering clear of the inner city clubs. Still wanting to release a record, they engaged Terry Hayman as their recording manager. Terry claimed to have contacts at Decca Records in London. He was right, and he got them signed to Decca, making the Bluestars the first New Zealand group to score a debut record contract in Britain. They still didn't actually have anything recorded, so Hayman arranged for NZBC en
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Nuggets II: Original Artyfacts From The British Empire And Beyond, Vol. 3
The Bluestars
Nuggets II: Original Artyfacts From The British Empire And Beyond
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Nuggets, Vol. 2: Original Artyfacts From the British Empire & Beyond Disc 3
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Cafe Apres-midi Rouge
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Wild Things - Wyld Kiwi Garage 1966-1969
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The Day After The Sabbath 27: Psych Tentacles
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Nuggets II disc 3
Nuggets II: Original Artyfacts From the British Empire and Beyond 1964-69 (disc 3)
Nuggets II: Original Artyfacts From the British Empire and Beyond, 1964-1969
Nuggets II: Original Artyfacts From The British Empire And Beyond 1964-1969
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The Day After The Sabbath 34: Shafts of Strife & War