Little River Band

Not in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

Eligible since: 2001

First Recording: 1975

Previously Considered? No  what's this?

Little River Band
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Reminiscing (1978)
Lonesome Loser (1979)

Little River Band @ Wikipedia

Will Little River Band be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame?
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All I have to say is if Hall and Oates can be inducted to the Hall of Fame, The Little River Band deserves it, I mean there has to be a cut of point, if you're going to put an easy listening group in LRB is your band, as much, if not more than H&Os

Posted by Zach Kile on Saturday, 05/17/2014 @ 22:47pm


Little River Band NO to RRHOF. Some good songs Take It Easy On Me was one. They made a song called Orbit Zero the flip side of one of their hits. Maybe, that hurt their later success. It was a horrible song. KING

Posted by KING on Friday, 05/15/2015 @ 23:43pm


Usually when HOF inducts a band, it appears they try to get as many of the founding members as possible. Little River Band has a menacing history unlike any other band that will ultimately be the deal breaker in getting the original members. I'm talking really screwed up stuff here. The story here should be made into a documentary.

The story here is every rockstar's worst nightmare. The group, at it's total core, was founded and owned by a trio from Australia that pulled it all together, wrote all the music and maintained the full lineups needed to back them. Throughout the years, the group had gone through several lineup changes in the background while the three front men remained. Toward the early 90's, that core split up. And yes they had differences, but they really just needed a break. Meanwhile, members in the background, none of whom were there for very long, wanted to keep touring under the band name. But that's only what they said they wanted to do. The fine print of what they wanted said something else. Due to a legal oversight, there was a clause that got left in that caused the actual rights to the band name to change hands and the founding members' entire success and legacy worldwide were stripped away just like that. The Little River Band has one of the darkest biographies in rock history.

Over

Posted by Steve on Sunday, 09/18/2016 @ 19:49pm


It would be a tremendous travesty to see the Little River Band get inducted under current conditions. It would be very good of the HOF to deny induction specifically as protest.

Posted by Steve on Sunday, 09/18/2016 @ 20:42pm


I'm a pretty big fan of theirs. Saw them live a couple times back in the 80's and still listen to a lot of their music, but I'm afraid they fall a bit short of being in the RRHOF.

Posted by Michael W. on Monday, 01/13/2020 @ 14:15pm


God I love this band. So many great songs, I don't know here to begin. The people on here who say "All I know is this one & that" & the ones that you wind up mentioning aren't even close to their best! Songs such as "Lady" "The Other Guy" "Night Owls" "Reminiscing" "Man on your Mind" "Help is on the Way". My God, the talent this band had. They were more "Hall & Oates" than Hall & Oates were. With the body of work that they have they more than qualify for the hall.

Their "Greatest Hits" only went double platinum is all. Don't know what the rest of you consider "great music" but the Little River Band sure exemplified it. Forget about what you consider "Rock". They're "Rock & Roll" & more accurately "pop". For God's sake the Beatles were "pop". Rock & Roll is an umbrella & when you open up that umbrella under it you have what you call "ROCK" & of course "POP". "HEAVY METAL". "PUNK" & YES "SOFT ROCK" "NEW WAVE" & so on. Stop thinking that Rock & Roll is a single sedentary thing, it's not it includes so much & the form is never meant to be as snobbish as you believe it is. It goes against everything that it stands for. What some of you here believe goes against everything that it stands for. LRB are part of the club & they belong.

Posted by Anthony on Saturday, 03/13/2021 @ 21:32pm


IMHO. I will say No. I believe the current band masquerading as "The Little River Band" has ruined any chance of the Original line up of Shorrock, Birtles, Goble, Briggs, McArdle, Pellicci of getting in the Rock Hall. In late 1981, when the band was going at a great clip making hits...Shorrock left and was replaced by Johnny Farnham an Australian Teen Pop idol from the 60s..who wasn't well known in the US. They had a modest hit in his tenure that didn't quite reach earlier successes. The Original line up would have been worth considering if they had stuck around a few more years and had a few more hits at the same level. Although they had some very successful efforts: "Lady", "Reminiscing", "Cool Change", "Help Is on Its Way", "Lonesome Loser", "Take It Easy on Me", and "Man on Your Mind"...most of their OTHER hits were popular in Australia and not the US. By the time Shorrock returned, they were able to get another modest hit out of that effort, but it was essentially too late. The writing of Shorrock, Birtles, Goble, and Briggs was stellar. Shorrock's voice was legendary LRB. Wayne Nelson who leads the current band is okay but really doesn't capture the LRB we knew in the late 70s/early 80s. Unfortunately, with falling slightly short on hits with a dozen...or so in the US, and losing the rights to their "Little River Band" name, and having No original members playing their material (especially those who wrote the songs), has ruined any chance of this "very good" band from reaching the Rock Hall. Shorrock, Birtles, and Goble (Three original LRB members) got together in recent years and are a decent act worth looking at. Shorrock still sounds good and the other originals are very proficient. The dozen hits they had in the US are still very enjoyable to listen to.

Posted by Tim D on Sunday, 03/28/2021 @ 00:13am


I am flabbergasted that this legendary band has not been honored yet. They are way more deserving than many that are there. The R&R HOF needs to get their act together or they will not be taken serious.

Posted by Lynn Allred on Monday, 06/14/2021 @ 12:33pm


Amazing talent is what Little River Band is all about! Extremely great harmonies in Shorrock, Goble, Briggs and Beeb. Saw them couple times in the 80s and was very impressed. Not sure why HOF can't put in soft rock bands like LRB and Bread. These guys all wrote their own stuff and performed it well. Get them in the hall!

Posted by Rick Conrad on Monday, 08/15/2022 @ 23:18pm


It is unfortunate that Glenn Shorrock, Beeb Birtles, Graham Gobles will never the join the other original members in the Rock n Roll Hall Of Fame whilst the current tribute band in America owns the trademark and bars the use of the name.

Posted by Anthony Volpi on Wednesday, 03/29/2023 @ 20:47pm


If the Hall of Fame had the desire and the power to do the right thing, they would find a way to induct the LRB, but only the band as comprised by its original members. I feel that there are still too many people who are unaware of the fact that a cover band managed to get the rights to their music as pretends to be the real thing. A huge injustice to the musical artists who gave the world so many great songs.

Posted by Tim Runge on Friday, 02/2/2024 @ 01:14am


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