The Twilights

During the 1960s, the Twilights ranked among Australia's stronger bands. Though hardly trailblazers, they delivered capable British Invasion rock built on tight harmonies and strongly evocative of the Hollies in both their beat-driven and pseudo-psychedelic periods.

Most of their songs came from guitarist Terry Britten, yielding more than a dozen singles plus two albums between 1965 and 1968 that produced several major domestic hits. Following the route taken by many Australian acts of the era, the group journeyed to England seeking wider international success and managed to lay down several tracks in London with veteran producer-engineer Norman Smith, whose résumé included work with the Beatles, Pink Floyd, Pretty Things, and others.

Like nearly every other Australian outfit attempting the U.K. market—apart from the Bee Gees and the Easybeats—they found no foothold there, prompting a return home for only intermittent further triumphs before the band split in early 1969.