John Kennedy
- January 9, 2024
- Musician
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John Kennedy Biography
| Name | John Kennedy |
| Birthday | Jul 1 |
| Birth Year | 1958 |
| Place Of Birth | Liverpool |
| Home Town | Liverpool |
| Birth Country | Australia |
| Birth Sign | Cancer |
John Kennedy is one of the most popular and richest Musician who was born on July 1, 1958 in Liverpool, Liverpool, Australia. John Kennedy was born in Liverpool, England on 1 July 1958. His father’s name is also John Kennedy. In October 1965 the Kennedy family migrated to Australia and settled in Brisbane. Kennedy took the confirmation name, Francis, when he was ten and – as his middle name – it completes the famous JFK initials. According to his website, “It seemed like a good idea at the time. The joke has long since worn off for him, but it still takes some explaining.” Kennedy grew up in Acacia Ridge, where he developed a preference for country-influenced music, especially Elvis Costello’s debut album, My Aim Is True (July 1977). He later recalled that “My parents listened to a lot of popular country – people like Burl Ives, Tom Jones, who was doing country then, and Johnny Cash… It was quite sophisticated country music – big vocals and a big production sound.”
JFK & the Cuban Crisis were established on the inner city live scene alongside contemporaries, the Triffids. In 1983 Paterson was replaced by Graham Lee on guitar. Soon after the group had “moved away from its pop roots, allowing the country elements to dominate proceedings.” In April 1984 they issued a three- track EP, The Ballad of Jackie O, and followed in May with their studio album, The End of the Affair. In June that year, Kennedy disbanded the group due to “musical differences”. In September 1986 Stuart Coupe of The Canberra Times observed that he “suffered, as he still does, from accusations that he was imitating the nasal tones of Elvis Costello – something that’s still very noticeable – but Kennedy insists that it’s just coincidence.”
Kennedy embarked on his solo career by releasing a single, “Forget”, in September 1984 on Waterfront Records. To promote it he formed John Kennedy’s Love Gone Wrong (from early 1987, it was trimmed to Love Gone Wrong). Alongside Kennedy were Lee on acoustic guitar, pedal steel and vocals; Adrian Bingham on saxophone; Ike on double bass; Peter Kennard (ex-Rockmelons) on percussion; Peter Timmerman (ex-Cheatin’ Hearts) on drums and Martin Tucker on piano. Kennedy described his music as “urban and western”. The band released a single, “Miracle (in Marrickville)” in March 1985. Also in that month Colin Bloxsom joined on lead guitar (ex-Pop Rivets).
John Kennedy’s Love Gone Wrong appeared on the TV talent quest series, Starsearch, winning four heats and making the final in April 1985. Kennedy and Bloxsom were joined by Mark Dawson on drums, Margaret Labi on harmony vocals and Barry Turnbull (ex-Chad’s Tree) on bass guitar. This line-up toured the Australian eastern states and recorded another single, “King Street” (November 1985). Coupe described their work “Most notable among the records are ‘King Street’, an ode to the main street in the inner Sydney suburb of Newtown, and ‘Miracle in Marrickville’, a song about the suburb Kennedy was living in at the time.”
For the band Kennedy and Paterson recruited a new rhythm section: Greg Hall on bass guitar and Paul Rochelli on drums. They started a residency at the Southern Cross Hotel in Surry Hills. A four-track extended play, Careless Talk Costs Lives (December 1982), had been recorded in Brisbane earlier and was the first release on the new Waterfront Records label. It featured the song, “The Texan Thing”, which received alternative radio airplay. Kennedy had started writing it as “Take Something”, which was a “jaunty keyboard-driven song”. When Paterson recommended “The Texan Thing” as their next single, Kennedy thought “that’s a bit rude, he’d already had the A-side of the first single, and now he was mentioning this song I’d never heard of”. However Paterson had “misheard [‘Take Something’] as ‘Texan Thing’. So I had to go back and rewrite the lyrics.”
John Kennedy Net Worth
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Source Of Income | Musician |
| House | Living in own house. |
John Kennedy is one of the richest Musician from Australia. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, John Kennedy 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
John Francis Kennedy (born John Kennedy 1 July 1958) is an English-born Australian musician and singer-songwriter–guitarist. He has been the leader of a number of groups including JFK & the Cuban Crisis (1980–84), and John Kennedy’s Love Gone Wrong (1984–88). In 1984 he described his music as “urban and western”.
John Kennedy, on lead vocals and guitar, formed his first band, JFK & the Cuban Crisis, with former school friend James Paterson on vocals and mandolin in Brisbane in October 1980. The rest of the initial line-up were John Downie on bass guitar, Paul Hardman on keyboards, Holger Maschke on slide guitar and Stephen Pritchard on drums. They established themselves on the local scene, taking up a residency at 279 Club, with their smart Squeeze influenced pop. According to Australian musicologist, Ian McFarlane, they “played a brand of jangly guitar pop with country overtones.” They released two cassette albums, Over the Underpass and Under the Overpass (1981) and Down and Out in Brisbane and Sydney (1982). They played support spots for the Pretenders and Ian Dury and the Blockheads. The band issued their debut single, “Am I a Pagan”, in March 1982 and then moved to Sydney in May.
For the Big Country Tour of Australia Kennedy, Messenger and Turnbull were joined by Wayne Connolly on electric guitar and Vincent Sheehan on drums for a new line-up, which visited rural venues outside the major cities. Kennedy acknowledged that “It’s very hard to actually get people from the established country music industry in Australia to accept [outsiders], and what they see as alternative bands.” Coupe described their typical set list as “mostly Kennedy’s songs although they frequently do cover versions of songs by Bob Dylan and The Byrds, from the periods where these artists moved into country- influenced music.” Red Eye Records released an eight-track compilation album, From Woe to Go, it covered Kennedy’s material since 1984.
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In 2000 he released Kennedy Town, for which he returned to Berlin and used former Honeymooners to record. In the following year he released a retrospective album, Inner West: Greatest Bits and Pieces, rescued from aging master tapes. Back in Australia Kennedy formed John Kennedy and the Lone Gunmen. Then he formed John Kennedy’s ’68 Comeback Special in 2003, a band which included former members of Love Gone Wrong.
Facts & Trivia
John Ranked on the list of most popular Musician. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Australia. John Kennedy celebrates birthday on July 1 of every year.
What is John F. Kennedy best known for?
John Fitzgerald Kennedy (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963), often referred to by his initials as JFK or by the nickname Jack, was an American politician who served as the 35th president of the United States from 1961 until his assassination near the end of his third year in office.
How is Senator John Kennedy related to JFK?
He is a founding member of his local Methodist church in Madisonville. Despite sharing the first and last name of the 35th President of the United States, he is not related to the Kennedy family of Massachusetts.
How old was Kennedy when died?
46 years (1917–1963)
What did JFK do in the Cold War?
In May 1961, JFK had authorized sending 500 Special Forces troops and military advisers to assist the government of South Vietnam. They joined 700 Americans already sent by the Eisenhower administration. In February 1962, the president sent an additional 12,000 military advisers to support the South Vietnamese army.
Who did JFK run against?
The 1960 United States presidential election was the 44th quadrennial presidential election. It was held on Tuesday, November 8, 1960. In a closely contested election, Democratic United States Senator John F. Kennedy defeated the incumbent Vice President Richard Nixon, the Republican Party nominee.