Vince Melouney was a founding member of Billy Thorpe & The Aztecs

Billy Thorpe & the Aztecs

Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs were an Australian pop and rock group dating from the mid-sixties. The group enjoyed huge success in the mid-1960s, but split in 1967. They re-emerged in the early seventies to become one of the most popular Australian hard-rock bands of the period...

, playing with the band as lead guitar

Lead guitar

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ist from 1963 to 1965, which was followed by a short-lived duo

Duet (music)

A duet is a musical composition for two performers. In classical music, the term is most often used for a composition for two singers or pianists; with other instruments, the word duo is also often used. A piece performed by two pianists performing together on the same piano is referred to as...

 with fellow Aztec Tony Barber

Tony Barber (musician)

Anthony Arthur Barber, known as Tony, was born in England. He arrived in Australia in 1963.He was a member of the band Billy Thorpe & the Aztecs in the 1960s. He wrote several children's books in the 1980s under the name A. A. Barber including The Puggle Tales. He also started and operated The Lost...

, called Vince & Tony's Two.

In 1967, after moving to the UK

United Kingdom

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, he was invited to join the Bee Gees

Bee Gees

The Bee Gees are a musical group that originally comprised three brothers: Barry, Robin, and Maurice Gibb. The trio was successful for most of their 40-plus years of recording music, but they had two distinct periods of exceptional success: as a pop act in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and as a...

. He was the lead guitarist on their first three album

Album

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s; Bee Gees' 1st

Bee Gees' 1st

Bee Gees' 1st is—despite the title—the third studio album by The Bee Gees. It was, however, their first album to be released internationally, as their first two LPs were only available in Australia and New Zealand...

, Horizontal

Horizontal (album)

Horizontal is the Bee Gees' fourth studio album, and second to seek an international release. The LP was released in early 1968, and included the international hit singles "Massachusetts" and "World"....

, and Idea

Idea (album)

Idea is the Bee Gees' fifth studio album, and their third international release on the ATCO label in the US and Polydor in the UK. Released in August, 1968, the album sold over a million copies worldwide. This album features "Such a Shame", the only Bee Gees song where lead vocals aren't sung by a...

. In November 1968 it was reported by the UK music magazine

Magazine

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, NME

NME

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, that Melouney's final concert

Concert

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 with the Bee Gees would be on 1 December, following the end of their current German

Germany

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 tour.

In 1969 he formed a short-lived supergroup

Supergroup (music)

In the late 1960s, the term supergroup was coined to describe "a rock music group whose performers are already famous from having performed individually or in other groups"....

, Fanny Adams, with the singer Doug Parkinson

Doug Parkinson

Douglas "Doug" Parkinson is an Australian singer who first came to fame with his band, Doug Parkinson In Focus, in 1969. He has had numerous hits on the Australian Top 40 charts.-Career:...

, bassist

Bassist

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 Teddy Toi and drummer

Drummer

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 Johnny Dick, who recorded

Sound recording and reproduction

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 one album. He rejoined the Bee Gees for the One Night Only Concert held in Sydney, Australia in 1999 and rejoined Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs for a tour in 2002/3. At the completion of that tour, he completed his first solo album, released with the title "Covers" which had ten cover versions of songs including Love Her Madly

Love Her Madly

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, Come Together

Come Together

"Come Together" is a song by The Beatles written by John Lennon and credited to Lennon–McCartney. The song is the opening track on The Beatles' September 1969 album Abbey Road....

, and Lay Down Sally

Lay Down Sally

"Lay Down Sally" is a single by Eric Clapton, written by Eric Clapton, Marcy Levy, and George Terry. It appeared on his November 1977 album Slowhand, and reached No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. It is a country blues performed in the style of J. J...

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In May 2011, Vince will be appearing at the Emerald Maraboon Tavern, Queensland, Australia.