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Vanda & Young Global Songwriting Competition 2025 Top 50 Announcement

Vanda & Young Global Song Comp Breaks Records As 2025 Top 50 Are Revealed

by Paul Cashmere

The Vanda & Young Global Songwriting Competition has announced its 2025 Top 50, marking a record year with more than 4,000 global entries and A$80,000 in prizes.

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Harry Vanda supplied

Harry Vanda To Release His First Ever Solo Single ‘Devil Loose’

by Noise11.com

Harry Vanda, one of the most important figures in Australian music history, has released his first ever single under his own name. ‘Devil Loose’, written with Mark McEntee of the Divinyls, arrives September 29 via Flashpoint/Impressed.

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Genesis Owusu (supplied)

Genesis Owusu Wins 2021 Vanda & Young Songwriting Competition

by Paul Cashmere

Recent Australian Music Prize winner Genesis Owusu is now also the 2021 recipient of the Vanda & Young Songwriting Competition.

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Memo Music Hall to Present the Vanda and Young Anthology Show Disturbing The Peace

by Paul Cashmere

The Vanda & Young contribution to the great Australian songbook is never ending.

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Matt Corby

Matt Corby and Dann Hume win 2019 Vanda & Young Global Songwriting Competition

by Paul Cashmere

Matt Corby and Dann Hume have won the 2019 Vanda & Young Songwriting Competition for their song ‘Miracle Love’.

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Vanda and Young Songwriting Competition

2019 Vanda & Young Global Songwriting Competition extends closing date to 2 May

by Paul Cashmere

The 2019 Vanda & Young Global Songwriting Competition has been extended until 5pm on 2 May 2019.

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Amy Shark

Vanda & Young Songwriting Contest is open for business in 2019

by Paul Cashmere

The Vanda & Young songwriting contest is happening again with Australian songwriters invited to submit songs for the worlds largest cash prize in the songwriting content … $50,000.

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Stevie Wright at the Moser Room South Yarra for the Launch of the Book, Hard Road on 5 August 2004. Photo by Ros O'Gorman, noise11

R.I.P. Easybeats Legend Stevie Wright 1947-2015

by Paul Cashmere

Stevie Wright, the lead singer of legendary Australian band The Easybeats, has died at age 68.

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John Paul Young - image By Ros O'Gorman

John Paul Young To Perform The Vanda and Young Songbook

by Paul Cashmere

John Paul Young has put together a show based on a complete set of Vanda and Young material.

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Doc Neeson, Countdown Spectacular 2, Melbourne 2007, Photo Ros O'Gorman

Doc Neeson’s Final Recording Walking In The Rain Comes Full Circle

by Paul Cashmere

Doc Neeson’s final recording brought him full circle with his original producers Vanda & Young. Doc’s final song is his cover of the Flash and the Pan’s ‘Walking In The Rain’.

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Marcus Hook Roll Band

Angus And Malcolm Young Early Years As Marcus Hook Roll Band Coming June

by Paul Cashmere

Before AC/DC Malcolm and Angus Young were part of the Marcus Hook Roll Band with their brother George Young and Harry Vanda of The Easybeats.

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