JOHNNY Young and post-punk band The Scientists will be inducted into WA Music’s hall of fame this month.
They will be inducted at the 2019 WAM Awards and join acts such as The Pigram Brothers, The Waifs, Philip Stevens, Rick Steele, The Triffids, Dixie Battersby and The Stems.
The WAM Awards hall of fame pays tribute to WA artists and industry members who have attained outstanding career achievements on both a national and international scale.
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READ NOWYoung was one of Australia’s biggest pop stars in the ’60s and had a number one hit with the double-A-side Step Back and Caralyn.
Another hit for Young was his slower version of The Beatles’ All My Loving, which reached number four nationally.
As a composer, he penned number one hits The Real Thing and The Girl That I Love for Russell Morris, The Star for Ross D. Wylie and I Thank You for Lionel Rose.
From 1971 to 1988 Young presented and produced the TV show Young Talent Time, launching the careers of pop stars such as Dannii Minogue and Tina Arena.
Young is also a well-known name in the radio industry, having hosted almost 10 years of breakfast radio on 6IX.
His previous accolades include three gold records as an artist, 1966 King of Pop, six gold records as songwriter, six TV Logie Awards, and GO-SET Songwriter of the year 1970.
He was the first person to be inducted into both the Logie Hall of Fame and Australian Recording Industry Association Hall of Fame in 2010.
The Scientists, a post-punk WA band, had two incarnations – a Perth-based punk band in the late 1970s and a Sydney/London based swamp-rock band of the 1980s.
A WAM spokesperson said they were about what it was like to be young and living in modern times in an Australian urban/suburban environment.
The themes of getting wasted on alcohol and drugs, driving round in hotted-up cars, being trapped in crap jobs and paranoia were their subject matter.
Bands that have cited them over the years include Mudhoney, Nirvana, Jon Spencer and The White Stripes.
The WAM Awards will be presented on Thursday, October 31, in the Grand Ballroom of the Hyatt Regency Hotel.
Tickets at Moshtix; for more info visit wamfest.com.au.