NZ singer-songwriter Larry Morris dies
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- 20 Jan 2023
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New Zealand singer-songwriter Larry Morris, who fronted the hit-making band Larry's Rebels in the 1960s, has died.
Larry's Rebels was a garage rock group from the Auckland suburb of Ponsonby, formed in 1964.
Their best-known song Let's Think Of Something won a 1967 Apra Silver Scroll award, and they had several hit singles in New Zealand and Australia.
Larry's Rebels released seven Top 20 records and toured with high-profile international acts before Morris quit the band in 1969.
One Larry's Rebels concert at Western Springs in Auckland attracted 18,000 fans.
In 2017, Morris told Trevor Reekie on RNZ's The Mixtape that it was a wonderful band.
"The thing with bands, not all the time, but a lot of the time there is a magic that comes with that line-up of people, I believe the Rolling Stones definitely had that, Hello Sailor definitely had that same thing.
"When you take the individuals away they're not so good on their own, but when you put them together there is a magic."
Larry's Rebels "had that chemistry in spades" and Morris said his greatest regret was leaving the band to go solo which was a very bad career move.
Morris put the band's first number one hit down to a deal he made with Radio Hauraki's founder David Gates, at a point when Hauraki was still a pirate station operating offshore from the ship Tiri. Read More…
