Gene Pierson
Gene Pierson is a musician, who had an early solo career in New Zealand and then in Australia. His 1960s and early 1970s songs, Love, Love, Love, You Got to Me and Reach Out, achieved local chart success in Australia and New Zealand. He launched ACDC at Chequers on New Years Eve 1974 and later became a publisher and music producer in Australia.
Gene Pierson was born Giancarlo Salvestrin in Venice. In 1949 his father, Ernesto, migrated to Australia and in January 1950, at the age of four, Pierson and his mother followed, settling in Griffith.
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