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Radio with Pictures - My Kind of Town
Television (Excerpts) – 1981
When Dragon started in New Zealand they were fairly amateur I guess. When we shifted to Australia, everything was faster, everything was nastier, had more of an edge to it. It just kind of became obvious we had to change the music we were playing to succeed or to survive.– Marc Hunter, sometime vocalist for Dragon
Watch out for Sharon, and David [Bowie] and Queen!– Australian presenter Molly Meldrum on his TV show, meeting Sharon O'Neill
A good live band in Australia has a lot of power and aggression, which we realised when we got here. We just had to kick ourselves and move our show along…– Barry Saunders, then of band The Tigers
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