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Hoadley's Battle of the Sounds

Hoadley's Battle of the Sounds was an annual national rock/pop band competition held in Australia from 1966 to 1972.[1] The winners of the national finals were the Twilights (1966), the Groop (1967), the Groove (1968), Doug Parkinson in Focus (main, 1969) and the Affair (vocal group, 1969), the Flying Circus (1970), Fraternity (1971) and Sherbet (1972).

Australian rock

Timeline of trends in Australian music

– founder of Hoadley's Confectionery Company and inventor of the famous Violet Crumble chocolate bar.

Abel Hoadley

Stacey, Terence J (1995), The battles of the sounds, Moonlight Publications,  978-0-646-25126-4

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Everybody's Magazine – 1964 to 1967 (Courtesy Mitchell Library, Sydney)

Magazine – 1967 to 1972 (Courtesy Mitchell Library, Sydney)

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