David Briggs is an Australia

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n musician

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 and record producer

Record producer

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, educated at Wesley College, Melbourne

Wesley College, Melbourne

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 best known for his time as a guitarist

Guitarist

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 in the rock band

Rock Band

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, Little River Band

Little River Band

Little River Band is an Australian rock band, formed in Melbourne in early 1975.The group chose the name after passing a road sign leading to the Victorian township of Little River, near Geelong, on the way to a performance. Little River Band enjoyed sustained commercial success in not only...

 between 1976 and 1981.

In 1976 he joined Little River Band. He wrote

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 their hit

Hit record

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 single

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 "Lonesome Loser", as well as "Happy Anniversary". From 1978 until 1981, Little River Band achieved six consecutive U.S.

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 Top 10 singles with "Reminiscing", "Lady", "Lonesome Loser", "Cool Change", "The Night Owls" and "Take It Easy On Me".

Briggs also produced the rock band, Australian Crawl

Australian Crawl

Australian Crawl were an Australian rock band founded by James Reyne , Brad Robinson , Paul Williams , Simon Binks and David Reyne in 1978. David Reyne soon left and was replaced by Bill McDonough...

, and co-wrote their single "Hoochie Gucci Fiorucci Mama" with vocalist James Reyne

James Reyne

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. He produced Russell Morris

Russell Morris

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' Almost Frantic album and started Rough Diamond Records with Ross Gardiner, a Melbourne based music writer, which was distributed through Astor Records

Astor Records

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 and then PolyGram

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. He signed the band No Fixed Address

No Fixed Address

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 which is the first Aboriginal

Australian Aborigines

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 band and released in Australia the single "We Have Survived" which was launched by Bob Hawke

Bob Hawke

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, who was the Prime Minister of Australia

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 at the time. Briggs has also produced songs with The Orphans, Hop Skip Jump, Big Ronnie, The Stockings and The Young Home Buyers, which were released on Rough Diamond.

Briggs now works as a recording engineer

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 and producer in Melbourne. Has worked on thousands of records

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 since starting the Production Workshop Recording Studio in 1979. Since 2002 he has been a lecturer at Victoria University

Victoria University, Australia

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, Melbourne, teaching Applied Acoustic Design and Advanced Digital Audio.

Briggs is soon to be a published author

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 with his autobiography

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, The Diary of the Lonesome Loser, which is an account of his time in the Little River Band.