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Name
  
John Hanlon


Role
  
Singer

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Albums
  
After the Dam Broke, Garden Fresh, Use Your Eyes

Similar People
  
Neil Young, Camille, Booker T Jones, Frank Sampedro, Donald Dunn

John Hanlon (born 1949) is a New Zealand singer and songwriter. From 1974 to 1976, he collected three successive New Zealand Album of the Year and Songwriter of the Year awards, a feat achieved by no other artist before or since, as well as the APRA Silver Scroll two years in succession.

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Though Hanlon was born in Malaya, he migrated to New Zealand during the 1960s. In 1978 he then moved to Australia running Sydney ad-agency LOUD. In recent years he has moved back to New Zealand where he continues to write books and play golf.

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Career

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Musicians he played with include Frank Gibson Jnr., Bruce Lynch, Suzanne Lynch, Billy Kristian, Tommy Adderley, Dave MacRae and Symphonia of Auckland.

Albums

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  • Floating - 1973
  • Garden Fresh - 1974 NZ #28
  • Higher Trails - 1975 NZ #7
  • Use Your Eyes - 1976
  • Short Stories - 1988
  • The Very Best of John Hanlon - 2003
  • Just Quietly - 2009
  • After The Dam Broke - 2013, a double CD, 40 song compilation
  • Singles

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  • "Damn the Dam" - 1973 NZ #5
  • "Knowing" - 1973
  • "Shy Ann" - 1973
  • "I Care" - 1974
  • "Is It Natural" - 1974
  • "Lovely Lady" - 1974 NZ #1
  • "Apple Wine" - 1975 NZ #6
  • "Higher Trails" - 1975 NZ #35
  • "Romantically Inclined" - 1982
  • "Don't It Ever Get You Down" - 1988

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    References

    John Hanlon (singer) Wikipedia