Greg Quill

Gregory Raymond Greg Quill was an Australianborn musician, singersongwriter and journalist. He lived in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada and was an entertainment columnist at the Toronto Star newspaper from the mid1980s until his death in May 2013. In Australia he came to popular fame as a singersongwriter for the country rock band, Country Radio . Their biggest hit, Gyspy Queen, was released in August 1972 and was cowritten by Quill with band mate, Kerryn Tolhurst, which peaked at No.16012 on the GoSet National Top 40. After getting an arts grant, Quill travelled to Toronto in 1974 and by mid1980s had become a journalist at the Toronto Star. By 1983 he was married to Ellen Davidson, a public relations executive. Greg Quill died onMay 2013, at the age of 66 years, from complications due to pneumonia.

Gregory Raymond Quill was born onApril 1947 to Raymond and Doris Quill . He grew up in Sydney with a younger brother, Christopher. From the age of aboutyears he learned how to play acoustic guitar and his first public performance was in his final year of high school. Quill began his musical career in the 1960s as a solo performer on the Sydney folk scene clustered around the University of Sydney, where he graduated in 1970 with a Bachelor of Arts in English Language and Literature. He worked briefly as a history teacher at a Catholic boys high school in Bankstown. He was hired by David Elfick, then the local editor of the national weekly pop music magazine, GoSet . Quill worked as a writer from 1969, then feature writer and Sydney regional editor for the Melbournebased publication. In 2002 Quill recalled that editing GoSet had prepared him for his later work in journalism.

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