"Richard Clapton is a 70's Oz Rock God,
born with dark sunglasses on!"Mervyn E. Skilton (Oz Rock Historian) www.BigMERV.com 97.1FM Melbourne
::RiCHARD CLAPTON::info::
::Richard Clapton was born in the 50's, but he remains
very elusive to his actual age.
::Richard Clapton's first hit "Girls on the Avenue," came from his
2nd album, and reached No.2 spot on the Australian Top 40
Music Charts.
::Richard Clapton's hits include..
Girls on the Avenue
Deep Water
Lucky Country
The Best Years of Our Lives
I Am an Island
..all are popular rock tracks
still regularly played on Australian radio.
::Richard Clapton's albums
include..
Prussian Blue 1973
Girls on the Avenue 1975
Main Street Jive 1976
Goodbye Tiger 1977
Past Hits & Previews 1978
Hearts on the Nightline 1979
Dark Spaces
1980
The Great Escape 1982
Solidarity 1984
Glory Road 1987
The Best Years of Our Lives 1989
Distant Thunder 1993
Angeltown 1995
Diamond Mine 2004
Rewired*2006
*recorded
at Richard Clapton's home studio featuring "unplugged" acoustic
versions of earlier songs.
::Richard Clapton is not the cousin of
Eric Clapton as stated on wikipedia.