William Richard "Billy" Thorpe AM was an Australian musician who achieved fame as a pop singer in the 1960s and a hard rocking guitarist in the 1970s. And like most Australian pop and rock stars of the 1960s and 1970s, Billy was born in the UK. He then when on to further fame in the US in the 1980s where he is best known for the album Children Of The Sun.
Pick Me Up And Play Me Loud was Billy's last Australian album before heading to the US, and was a return to the Billy Thorpe & The Aztecs name after the previous album Million Dollar Bill was credited to Billy Thorpe despite including Aztec stalwarts Gil 'Rathead' Matthews and Warren 'Pig' Morgan. While it retains a touch of the funk sound of that previous album, Pick Me Up And Play Me Loud is features more straightforward rockers, including a remake of Billy's signature tune Most People I Know (Think That I'm Crazy), the original version having been a non-album single.
Billy Thorpe passed away suddenly on 28 February 2007.
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