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Jun 4, 2014 · Bernard “Doc” Neeson, vocalist with legendary Australian hard rock outfit The Angels, passed away this morning at 7.15am Australian eastern standard time after an 18-month battle with brain cancer. He was 67. Born in Belfast in 1947, Neeson was renowned for his unique onstage persona, incorporating influences such as German expressionism ...
Nov 29, 2021 · Bernard “Doc” Neeson, was a leading figure in the Australian rock music until his death in 2014. Neeson rarely slowed down or settled down. Doc: the Lives and Times of Aussie Rock Legend Doc Neeson was written by two authors that knew him well. This is an odd book that somehow works. Jon Bradshaw was a friend of Neeson in the sixties in ...
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Known for his loud and energetic live performances, Neeson was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland and emigrated to Adelaide with his family at the age of 13. After time in the army and at university, in 1974 he was one of the founding members of a band called The Keystone Angels, which eventually just became known as The Angels. As lead singer of Th...
The ABC's Double J spoke with The Angels' drummer Buzz Bidstrupon Wednesday about Neeson's death. "I saw Doc two days ago and we got to say goodbye. His body didn't work anymore. He was in bed and he wasn't able to do anything... now he's up there with the real angels," Mr Bidstrup said. In 1999, Neeson stepped aside as frontman of The Angels becau...
Fairfax music critic Bernard Zuel says Neeson's stage presence helped make the rock band successful for decades. "[Neeson] was a performer who threw his body into every show, who made drama out of small things, and theatre out of the bigger things," he said. "[The Angels] were part of a period where it really mattered that you could put on a live s...
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Oct 19, 2021 · To many, Bernard “Doc” Neeson was a living musical and performance legend in his own lifetime. Co-founder of the rock group The Angels, he and his band mates became the highest grossing, and some would say most prolifically successful, pub and venue Australian rock band of the 1970’s/80’s, spawning a chant, NWGFFO, that continues to this day in reaction to the lyrics of one of their ...
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1971–2014. Bernard Patrick " Doc " Neeson OAM (4 January 1947 – 4 June 2014) was an Australian singer-songwriter and musician. He was the front man for the hard rock band The Angels from its formation in February 1976 through to 1999. The band then split up and reformed in 2008 after a lengthy legal battle where Doc resumed his place as ...
Jun 4, 2014 · Doc Neeson has passed away at the age of 67, after battling a brain tumour for the past 18 months. Bernard "Doc" Neeson is best known as the original frontman of Aussie rock band The Angels, a ...
