The Easybeats Quotes

I thought people still knew who wrote those songs, but it's true, yeah. George (Young) and I wrote the initial bunch of songs, what was there: there was She's So Fine, Sorry, I'll Make You Happy, oh blimey, I can't remember them all. There were about seven of them in 18 months and Harry Vanda, at the time, was learning to speak English properly. When I met Harry Vanda he could hardly speak a line of English and now he can speak it better than me - he teaches me words.
Stevie Wright

My favourite Easybeats song is a song I didn't sing. It was Land of Make Believe. Harry Vanda sings that. Time had moved on and the English just didn't consider (re-releasing the songs). They thought the stuff that went to number one in Australia was second-rate, but with Friday On My Mind they ate crow. The United States, they were good to us as well. If only we didn't have those initial hassles like distribution, and getting the PR going, getting on the right television show, oh, blimey ... but the 'States they gave us a good run.
Stevie Wright

Yes, it was mainly because Harry probably concentrated on learning English -- he had a helper Dicky Diamond, the bass player, who was Dutch-Australian, he had come out as a young boy, and he was one of the elders of the Easybeats and he was able to help Harry. I would kind of pick up on words Harry came up with. George warned me off once and said: ``He'll clout you one day if you pick him up about another word!'' and I said ``I'm only trying to make him speak well, speak proper.''
Stevie Wright