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Wendy Stapleton

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Wendy Anne-Marie Stapleton (born 8 July 1954) is an Australian pop/rock singer-songwriter, and musical theatre and television actress. [1]

89 relations: Actor, Album, Allen & Unwin, ARIA Charts, Australasian Performing Right Association, Australia, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Australian Recording Industry Association, Australian Rock Database, Backing vocalist, Bad Boy Johnny and the Prophets of Doom, Bass guitar, Blue Heelers, Brian Mannix, Bryan Adams, Chantoozies, Cilla Black, Cletis Carr, Community television in Australia, Countdown Spectacular, Cover version, Daniel Abineri, Darryl Cotton, Debra Byrne, Delta Goodrem, Derek Pellicci, Digital Spy, Drum kit, Dusty Springfield, Encyclopedia of Australian Rock and Pop, Essendon, Victoria, Extended play, Festival Records, Geoff Cox, GTV (Australia), Guitar, Halifax f.p., Happy Xmas (War Is Over), Heart of Stone (The Rolling Stones song), Her Majesty's Theatre, Melbourne, J. C. Williamson, John Farnham, John Paul Young, Jon English, Kensington, Victoria, Kent Music Report, Keyboard instrument, Lead vocalist, Li'l Elvis and the Truckstoppers, Lisa Edwards, ..., List of Neighbours characters (2003), Little penguin, Lulu (singer), Maggie Fitzgibbon, Marc Hunter, Melbourne, Mushroom Records, Musical theatre, Nadine Garner, National Library of Australia, Neighbours, Neighbours theme song, Nina Tucker, Noël Coward, Noble Park, Victoria, Patsy Cline, Peter Wells (guitarist), Pop music, Pub rock (Australia), Rhythm guitar, Rock music, Rose Tattoo, Russell Morris, Sail Away (musical), Short film, Singing, Songwriter, Soundtrack album, St Ives, New South Wales, St Leonards, New South Wales, St. Columba's College, Essendon, Tarax Show, The Incredible Penguins, The Rolling Stones, The Supremes, Venetta Fields, Victoria (Australia), Yooralla, ZZ Top. Expand index (39 more) »

Actor

An actor (often actress for women; see terminology) is a person who portrays a character in a performance.

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Album

An album is a collection of audio recordings issued as a single item on CD, record, audio tape or another medium.

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Allen & Unwin

Allen & Unwin is an Australian independent publishing company, established in Australia in 1976 as a subsidiary of the British firm George Allen & Unwin Ltd., which was founded by Sir Stanley Unwin in August 1914 and went on to become one of the leading publishers of the twentieth century.

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ARIA Charts

The ARIA Charts are the main Australian music sales charts, issued weekly by the Australian Recording Industry Association.

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Australasian Performing Right Association

The Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) is a copyright collective representing Australian and New Zealander composers, lyricists and music publishers.

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Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) founded in 1929 is Australia's national broadcaster, funded by the Australian Federal Government but specifically independent of Government and politics in the Commonwealth.

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Australian Recording Industry Association

The Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) is a trade group representing the Australian recording industry which was established in 1983 by six major record companies, EMI, Festival, CBS, RCA, WEA and Universal replacing the Association of Australian Record Manufacturers (AARM) which was formed in 1956.

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Australian Rock Database

The Australian Rock Database was a website with a searchable online database that listed details of Australian rock music artists, albums, bands, producers and record labels.

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Backing vocalist

Backing vocalists are singers who provide vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists.

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Bad Boy Johnny and the Prophets of Doom

Bad Boy Johnny and the Prophets of Doom is a rock stage musical first performed in Australia in 1989.

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Bass guitar

The bass guitar (also known as electric bass, or bass) is a stringed instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric guitar, except with a longer neck and scale length, and four to six strings or courses.

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Blue Heelers

Blue Heelers is an Australian police drama series that was produced by Southern Star Group and ran for 12 years on the Seven Network, from 1994 to 2006.

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Brian Mannix

Brian Mannix (born 7 October 1961 in Melbourne) is an Australian rock music singer and actor.

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Bryan Adams

Bryan Guy Adams, (born 5 November 1959) is a Canadian singer, songwriter, record producer, guitarist, photographer, philanthropist and activist.

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Chantoozies

Chantoozies are an Australian pop group, the band featured four female lead vocals singers: Eve von Bibra, Angie La Bozzetta, Ally Fowler and Tottie Goldsmith and four male musicians Brett Goldsmith (bass guitars, keyboards, programming), Scott Griffiths (keyboards, programming), Frank McCoy (guitars, vocals) and David Reyne (drums, backing vocals).

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Cilla Black

Priscilla Maria Veronica White OBE (27 May 1943 – 1 August 2015), known by her stage name Cilla Black, was an English singer, television presenter, actress and author.

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Cletis Carr

Cletis Carr (born August 4, 1959) is a singer-songwriter, guitarist and record producer.

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Community television in Australia

Community television in Australia (CTV) is a form of free-to-air non-commercial citizen media in which a television station is owned, operated and/or programmed by a community group to provide local programming to its broadcast area.

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Countdown Spectacular

The Countdown Spectacular is a series of concerts reviving the nostalgia of the Australian music television series Countdown.

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Cover version

In popular music, a cover version, cover song, or simply cover, is a new performance or recording by someone other than the original artist or composer of a previously recorded, commercially released song.

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Daniel Abineri

Daniel Abineri (born 8 August 1958) is an English songwriter, actor, director and playwright known for writing the book, music and lyrics for the controversial rock musical Bad Boy Johnny and the Prophets of Doom.

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Darryl Cotton

Darryl Grant Cotton (4 September 1949 27 July 2012) was an Australian pop, rock singer-songwriter, television presenter and actor.

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Debra Byrne

Debra Anne Byrne (born 30 March 1957), formerly billed as Debbie Byrne, is an Australian pop singer, actress and entertainer.

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Delta Goodrem

Delta Lea Goodrem (born 9 November 1984) is an Australian singer, songwriter, and actress.

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Derek Pellicci

Derek Allan Pellicci (born 18 February 1953) is an English Australian pop music drummer.

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Digital Spy

Digital Spy is a British-based entertainment, TV and movies website and brand, and is the largest digital property at Hearst UK.

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Drum kit

A drum kit — also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums — is a collection of drums and other percussion instruments, typically cymbals, which are set up on stands to be played by a single player, with drumsticks held in both hands, and the feet operating pedals that control the hi-hat cymbal and the beater for the bass drum.

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Dusty Springfield

Mary Isobel Catherine Bernadette O'Brien (16 April 1939 – 2 March 1999), professionally known as Dusty Springfield, was an English pop singer and record producer whose career extended from the late 1950s to the 1990s.

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Encyclopedia of Australian Rock and Pop

The Encyclopedia of Australian Rock and Pop or Rock and Pop by Australian music journalist Ian McFarlane is a guide to Australian popular music from the 1950s to the late 1990s.

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Essendon, Victoria

Essendon /ˈɛsǝndǝn/, is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 9 km north-west of Melbourne's central business district.

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Extended play

An extended play record, often referred to as an EP, is a musical recording that contains more tracks than a single, but is usually unqualified as an album or LP.

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Festival Records

Festival Records (later known as Festival Mushroom Records) was an Australian recording and publishing company founded in Sydney in 1952 and operated until 2005.

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Geoff Cox

Geoff Cox (born 13 March 1951 in St Kilda, Victoria) is an Australian musician and media personality.

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GTV (Australia)

GTV is a commercial television station in Melbourne, Australia, owned by the Nine Network.

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Guitar

The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that usually has six strings.

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Halifax f.p.

Halifax f.p. is an Australian television crime series produced by Nine Network from 1994 to 2002.

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Happy Xmas (War Is Over)

"Happy Xmas (War Is Over)" is a Christmas song released in 1971 as a single by John & Yoko/Plastic Ono Band with the Harlem Community Choir.

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Heart of Stone (The Rolling Stones song)

"Heart of Stone" is a song by the English rock band The Rolling Stones, released as a single in 1964 in the United States, and on an extended-play single in Europe (pictured).

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Her Majesty's Theatre, Melbourne

Her Majesty's Theatre is a 1,700 seat theatre in Melbourne's East End Theatre District, Australia.

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J. C. Williamson

James Cassius Williamson (August 26, 1845 – July 6, 1913) was an American actor and later Australia's foremost theatrical manager, founding J. C. Williamson Ltd.

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John Farnham

John Peter Farnham AO (born 1 July 1949) is an Australian rock/soft rock singer.

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John Paul Young

John Paul Young, OAM (born 21 June 1950) is a Scottish-born Australian pop singer who had his 1978 worldwide hit with "Love Is in the Air".

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Jon English

Jonathan James "Jon" English (26 March 1949 – 9 March 2016) was an English-born Australian singer, songwriter, musician and actor.

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Kensington, Victoria

Kensington is an inner suburb of Melbourne, Australia, 4 km north-west of Melbourne's central business district.

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Kent Music Report

The Kent Music Report was a weekly record chart of Australian music singles and albums which was compiled by music enthusiast David Kent from May 1974 through to 1988.

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Keyboard instrument

A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument played using a keyboard, a row of levers which are pressed by the fingers.

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Lead vocalist

The lead vocalist (or main vocalist, lead vocals or lead singer) in popular music is typically the member of a group or band whose voice is the most prominent in a performance where multiple voices may be heard.

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Li'l Elvis and the Truckstoppers

Li'l Elvis and the Truckstoppers is the Australian Children's Television Foundation's (ACTF's) first joint venture under the Distinctly Australian Program introduced by Prime Minister Paul Keating.

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Lisa Edwards

Lisa Anne Edwards (born 18 April 1958) is an Australian solo and session singer and musician.

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List of Neighbours characters (2003)

The following is a list of characters that first appeared in the Network Ten soap opera Neighbours in 2003, by order of first appearance.

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Little penguin

The little penguin (Eudyptula minor) is the smallest species of penguin.

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Lulu (singer)

Lulu Kennedy-Cairns OBE (born Marie McDonald McLaughlin Lawrie; 3 November 1948) is a Scottish singer-songwriter.

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Maggie Fitzgibbon

Maggie Fitzgibbon (born 30 January 1929, in Melbourne) is an Australian actress and singer.

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Marc Hunter

Marc Alexander Hunter (7 September 195317 July 1998) was a New Zealand rock and pop singer, songwriter and record producer.

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Melbourne

Melbourne is the state capital of Victoria and the second-most populous city in Australia and Oceania.

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Mushroom Records

Mushroom Records was an Australian flagship record label, founded in 1972 in Melbourne.

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Musical theatre

Musical theatre is a form of theatrical performance that combines songs, spoken dialogue, acting and dance.

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Nadine Garner

Nadine Lynette Garner (born 14 December 1970 in Knoxfield, Melbourne) is an Australian actress, who started her career as a teen performer.

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National Library of Australia

The National Library of Australia is the largest reference library in Australia, responsible under the terms of the National Library Act for "maintaining and developing a national collection of library material, including a comprehensive collection of library material relating to Australia and the Australian people." In 2012–13, the National Library collection comprised 6,496,772 items, and an additional of manuscript material.

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Neighbours

Neighbours is an Australian television soap opera.

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Neighbours theme song

The Neighbours theme song is the theme tune to the Australian soap opera Neighbours.

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Nina Tucker

Nina Tucker is a fictional character from the Australian soap opera Neighbours, played by Delta Goodrem.

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Noël Coward

Sir Noël Peirce Coward (16 December 189926 March 1973) was an English playwright, composer, director, actor and singer, known for his wit, flamboyance, and what Time magazine called "a sense of personal style, a combination of cheek and chic, pose and poise".

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Noble Park, Victoria

Noble Park is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 25 km south-east of Melbourne's central business district.

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Patsy Cline

Patsy Cline (born Virginia Patterson Hensley; September 8, 1932 – March 5, 1963) was an American country music singer and part of the Nashville sound during the late 1950s and early 1960s.

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Peter Wells (guitarist)

Peter William "Pete" Wells (31 December 194627 March 2006) was the founder and slide guitarist in Australian hard rock band, Rose Tattoo, from 1976 to 1983.

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Pop music

Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form in the United States and United Kingdom during the mid-1950s.

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Pub rock (Australia)

Pub rock is a style of Australian rock and roll popular throughout the 1970s and 1980s, and still influencing contemporary Australian music in the 2000s (decade).

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Rhythm guitar

In music performances, rhythm guitar is a technique and role that performs a combination of two functions: to provide all or part of the rhythmic pulse in conjunction with other instruments from the rhythm section (e.g., drumkit, bass guitar); and to provide all or part of the harmony, i.e. the chords from a song's chord progression, where a chord is a group of notes played together.

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Rock music

Rock music is a broad genre of popular music that originated as "rock and roll" in the United States in the early 1950s, and developed into a range of different styles in the 1960s and later, particularly in the United Kingdom and in the United States.

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Rose Tattoo

Rose Tattoo is an Australian rock and roll band, now led by Angry Anderson, that was formed in Sydney in 1976.

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Russell Morris

Russell Norman Morris (born 31 July 1948) is an Australian singer-songwriter who had five Australian Top 10 singles during the late 1960s and early 1970s.

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Sail Away (musical)

Sail Away is a musical with a book, music and lyrics by Noël Coward.

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Short film

A short film is any motion picture not long enough to be considered a feature film.

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Singing

Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice and augments regular speech by the use of sustained tonality, rhythm, and a variety of vocal techniques.

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Songwriter

A songwriter is a professional who is paid to write lyrics for singers and melodies for songs, typically for a popular music genre such as rock or country music.

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Soundtrack album

A soundtrack album is any album that incorporates music directly recorded from the soundtrack of a particular feature film or television show.

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St Ives, New South Wales

St Ives is a suburb on the Upper North Shore of Sydney in the state of New South Wales, Australia 18 kilometres north of the Sydney Central Business District in the local government area of Ku-ring-gai Council.

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St Leonards, New South Wales

St Leonards is a suburb on the lower North Shore of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia.

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St. Columba's College, Essendon

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Tarax Show

The Tarax Show was an early Australian children's TV program on GTV-9 in Melbourne running from 1957 to 1969.

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The Incredible Penguins

The Incredible Penguins were an Australian supergroup formed in 1985, which reached the top ten on the Australian Kent Music Report Singles Chart with their cover of "Happy Xmas (War Is Over)" in December.

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The Rolling Stones

The Rolling Stones are an English rock band formed in London, England, in 1962.

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The Supremes

The Supremes were an American female singing group and the premier act of Motown Records during the 1960s.

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Venetta Fields

Venetta Lee Fields (born 1941) is an American-Australian singer, musical theater actress and vocal coach.

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Victoria (Australia)

Victoria (abbreviated as Vic) is a state in south-eastern Australia.

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Yooralla

Yooralla is one of Australia’s largest non-profit disability services organisations in Australia, supporting over 30,000 Victorians living with a disability.

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ZZ Top

ZZ Top is an American rock band formed in 1969 in Houston, Texas.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendy_Stapleton

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