ROSS WILSON was still in high school when he formed his first band in 1964, The Pink Finks, who had a hit in Melbourne with their cover of ‘Louie Louie’. Since then, Ross has been at the forefront of the Australian music scene. In Daddy Cool, he wrote and sang the longest-running local chart-topper of all time, ‘Eagle Rock’, which spent 10 weeks at number one. After DC, Ross produced the first three Skyhooks albums, before forming Mondo Rock, who had nine Top 40 hits, including the classics ‘Come Said The Boy’, ‘Cool World’ and ‘State Of The Heart’. Ross’s songs have been covered by John Farnham (‘A Touch of Paradise’), Joe Cocker (his final single was a cover of ‘I Come In Peace’, written by Ross and The Angels’ Rick Brewster) and The Wiggles (their version of ‘Eagle Rock’ featured Ross as “King Mondo”). Ross is also one of the few artists to have twice been inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame (solo in 1989, and with Daddy Cool in 2006). When Mondo Rock are inevitably inducted, he will be our first triple Hall of Famer.