Search - Billy Thorpe, Aztecs :: Long Live Rock & Roll

The Moomba Festival on Sunday the 12th of March 1972 culminated in a massive live concert at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl. The lineup was Friends, La De Das, Gerry and the Joy Band and headliners Billy Thorpe & the Aztecs. As noted in media reports, an enormous crowd of 200,000 turned up. The following GoSet edition featured a detailed report on the concert and noted the debut of a new track entitled "Long Live Rock And Roll And Long May It Move Me So". We have taken the Aztecs' barn-storming performance and added another from late 1972 at Melbourne's Festival Hall (a farewell show before traveling to the UK) to create a never before released Aztecs' CD, one that captures the band at the peak of their live power (this is the same year and lineup of the classic Aztecs Live! at Sunbury performance, i.e. the "Sunbury Aztecs" Billy Thorpe, Gil Matthews, Paul Wheeler and Bruce Howard). The Festival Hall show features a lost classic: "Let Yourself Go" a song in a similar vein to "Time To Live" and "Momma" monster riffing, powerful vocals, relentless beat (with obligatory drum solo) with a running time of over 10 minutes!! There's also a rare live version of their single "Believe it Just Like Me". Remastered by Gil Matthews, liner notes by Ian McFarlane.