Top South African Pop and Rock Legends - The South African Rock Encyclopedia

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You’ve stumbled upon an authentic relic from July 2001. A list compiled by Brian Currin. At least one representative song for each artist is included – sometimes their biggest hit, sometimes just a personal favourite. Updated occasionally.

Abstract Truth – Blue Wednesday Speaks, Silver Trees, Oxford Town
The A-Cads – Hungry For Love, Roadrunner
Alan Garrity – I Need Someone
All Night Radio – Bernadette, Breaking Hearts
Asylum Kids – Fight It With Your Mind, Schoolboy, No No No No
Ballyhoo – Man On The Moon
Barbara Ray – I Don’t Wanna Play House
The Bats – Shabby Little Hut
Baxtop – Jo Bangles
Big Sky – Waiting For The Dawn, Slow Dancing, One Cut With A Knife
Billy Forrest – Lazy Life (as Quentin E Klopjaeger)
Brian Finch – I Remember You, Orang Outang
Bright Blue – Weeping, Window On The World
Buffalo featuring Peter Vee – Born To Be Wild, Magic Carpet Ride
Cinema – My Kind Of Girl
Circus – Conquistador
Clout – Substitute, You Got All Of Me, Save Me
Crocodile Harris – Give Me The Good News, Miss Eva Goodnight, Clachan Bridge, The World Is An Explosion
Dave Mills – Love Is A Beautiful Song, Theresa
David Scobie – Gypsy Girl
The Dealians – Look Out Here Comes Tomorrow, When Love Comes Knocking At Your Door
Dennis East – A Million Drums
Des & Dawn Lindberg – The Seagull’s Name Was Nelson, 16 Rietfonteins
Dickie Loader & The Blue Jeans – Exclusively Yours
Dog Detachment – Waiting For A Miracle
The Dream Merchants – Time And The River, Land Of Milk and Honey
Duncan MacKay – Morpheus
The Dynamics – Thugs
Ella Mental – See Yourself (Clowns), Pressure (I’m Getting Stronger), 30 Million Lonely People
éVoid – Shadows, Taximan
Falling Mirror – Johnny Calls The Chemist, Making Out With Granny, We Build A Big Fire
Finch & Henson – Playgrounds In Paradise, Kokstad (On The Road), Brother
The Flames – For Your Precious Love
Four Jacks and A Jill – Master Jack, Timothy
Freedoms Children – 1999, That Did It, The Homecoming
Gene Rockwell – Heart
Gwynneth Ashley Robin – Little Jimmy, Little Soldier Blue
Harari – Rock Steady
Hawk – Here Comes The Sun
Hotline (featuring PJ Powers) – You’re So Good To Me, So Cold, Jabulani
Hot R.S. – The House Of The Rising Sun, In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida
The Invaders – Shockwave, Astral III
Jack Hammer – Street Of Love, Sarajevo, Mozambique
Jeremy Taylor – Ag Pleez Deddy
Jessica Jones – Sunday Monday Tuesday
Jody Wayne – The Wedding
John Edmond – Fairy Tales, Toy Train, Pasadena
John Ireland – You’re Living Inside My Head
Johnny Clegg – Kilimanjaro (with Juluka), Scatterlings of Africa (with Savuka)
Jonathan Butler – Please Stay, I Love How You Love Me
The Julian Laxton Band – Celebrate
Just Jinger – Sugar Man, I Like You Madly
Koos Kombuis – Who Killed Kurt Cobain, Bicycle Sonder ‘n Slot
Lauren Copley – Its Too Late Now, Kentucky Blues
Lesley Rae Dowling – Grips Of Emotion, The Spaniard
Little Sister – Dear Abbie (One Night Of Passion), No Man Shall Fall
Margaret Singana – Tribal Fence, Mama Tembu’s Wedding, I Never Loved A Man
Maria – I’m On Fire, Clap Your Hands And Stamp Your Feet
Mauritz Lotz – Six String Razor
McCully Workshop – Buccaneer, Guinevere, Chinese Junkman
Morocko – Bowtie Boogaloo
Neill Solomon – Roxy Lady
No Friends Of Harry – Competition Rules, Paint It Black, White Rabbit
Otis Waygood Blues Band – Fever, Watch ‘n Chain
Peach – Nightmare, A Lot Of Things, Return To Sender
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy – Understanding, Amen, Hold On To What You Got
Pendulum – Take My Heart
Peter Vee – Can We Get To That?, Tips Of My Fingers
Piet Botha – Goeienag Generaal, Sien Jou Weer
Rabbitt – Hold On To Love, Charlie, Hard Ride
Radio Rats – ZX Dan
Richard Jon Smith – Candlelight, Michael Row The Boat Ashore, That’s Why I Love You
The Rising Sons – How Do You Do?, Going Down Jordan
Robin Auld – Baby You’ve Been Good To Me, All Of Woman, Perfect Day
Rouge – Eloise Concerto
Roy Bulkin – The Sun Ain’t Gonna Shine Anymore
Soft Shoes – Elvis Astaire
The Spectres – Be Bop Pop, Teddy Bear
Springbok Nude Girls – Blue Eyes, Papa Ek Wil ‘n Popster Word, Bubblegum On My Boots, Dimmer
The Square Set – Silence Is Golden
The Staccatos – Cry To Me
Stingray – Better The Devil You Know
Suck – Aimless Lady, The Whip
Sweatband – This Boy
Syd Kitchen – City Child, Africa’s Not For Sissies
The Third Eye – Fire, Apricot Brandy
The Tidal Wave – Spider Spider, Get It Out Of Your System
Tribe After Tribe – Damsel (As I Went Out One Morning)
Via Afrika – Hey Boy
Wanda Arletti – Zanzibar
Wildebeest – Bossies