New Zealand singer and songwriter Larry Morris, who fronted the hit-making band Larry’s Rebels in the 1960s, has died.
Larry’s Rebels was a garage rock group from Ponsonby, formed in 1964.
Their best-known song Let’s Think Of Something won a 1967 Apra Silver Scroll award, and they had several hit singles in both New Zealand and Australia.
Larry’s Rebels released seven Top 20 records and toured with high-profile international acts before Morris quit the band in 1969.
One Larry’s Rebels concert at Western Springs in Auckland attracted 18,000 fans.
In 2017, Morris told Trevor Reekie on RNZ’s The Mixtape that it was a wonderful band.
“The thing with bands, not all the time, but a lot of the time, there is a magic that comes with that line-up of people; I believe the Rolling Stones definitely had that;…
