Freedom Comes, Freedom Goes
(R.Charles/A.Burns)
Ronnie Charles began his professional singing career at just 16 when he joined Melbourne’s The Jackson Kings (1965-66) followed by a very successful three-year stint in The Groop between 1966 and 1969. Both bands also featured the acclaimed singer-songwriter and keyboard player Brian Cadd.
As well as his many fine recordings with The Groop, Ronnie also contributed vocals to the Pastoral Symphony single “Love Machine” / “Spread A Little Love Around”, released in May 1968 and supported Frijid Pink’s tour of Australia in 1970.
Ronnie’s went on to form supergroup Captain Australia & The Honky Tonk followed by Atlas.
After relocating to the UK Ronnie recorded an extraordinary solo album, ‘Prestidigitation’, released on the 20th Century label in 1976 and produced by Lou Reizner, who had overseen the landmark 1971 orchestral version of The Who’s ‘Tommy’. It featured Ronnie and a small rock ensemble, swathed in lavish orchestral-vocal arrangements performed by the London Symphony Orchestra and the English Chamber Choir. It featured songs penned by Anthony Newley and Leslie Bricusse and featuring renowned pianist-composer Keith Tippett on piano
Ronnie returned to Melbourne in the late 1970s and continues to perform live regularly.
Andy Burns is a multi-instrumentalist and producer based in Melbourne. Andy began producing and recording in the early seventies in New Zealand and now divides his time between composing, recording and performing in an eclectic range of genres from blues to jazz to rock to funk and reggae.
He has played with some of Australia’s most respected artists including Normie Rowe, Doug Parkinson, Jenny Morris, Digger Revell and Stephen Cummings, in addition to theatre shows including “Hair” and Wendy Stapleton as “Dusty”.
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