Playing a brash, uncompromising brand of R&B ... the band's tough sound was easi;ly the equal of the early Masters Apprentices and even Sydney's Missing Links ... But with less than an album's worth of material recorded during their entire existence, the Purple Hearts lack the recording history of the few breakout Australian acts of the '60s. After moving to Melbourne, the band broke up in January 1967, their promise largely stillborn. (Andrew Stafford, Pig City: From The Saints to Savage Garden p. 9)
Significant. File under: Brisbane Boys
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