1. Gary Stephen "Angry" Anderson was born on 5 August 1947 and is an Australian rock singer, songwriter, television personality and actor.
24 Facts About Angry Anderson
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Angry Anderson has been the lead vocalist and the longest-tenured remaining member of the hard rock band Rose Tattoo since 1976.
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Gary Stephen Angry Anderson was born on 5 August 1947 in Melbourne, Victoria, to an Anglo-Australian father and Mauritian mother.
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Angry Anderson grew up in suburban Coburg and attended Coburg Technical School before working as a fitter and turner in a factory.
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From 1971 to 1973, Angry Anderson led rock group Peace Power and Purity and came to wider public notice as the lead vocalist with Buster Brown.
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Angry Anderson had relocated to Sydney and replaced the group's original singer Tony Lake.
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Angry Anderson's debut as an actor was a minor role in Bullamakanka.
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Angry Anderson led Rose Tattoo through five studio albums until disbanding the group in 1987, by which time he was the only member remaining from the early line-up.
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In 1987, Angry Anderson had his biggest hit, when the uncharacteristic ballad "Suddenly" from the album, Beats from a Single Drum, was used as the wedding theme for the Neighbours episode in which the popular characters Scott Robinson and Charlene Mitchell married.
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In 1992, Angry Anderson acted in the Australian arena-style revival of Jesus Christ Superstar as Herod.
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From 1994, Angry Anderson has used his contacts in the media to organise a Challenge where a particular charity's project was completed with support of community and business groups.
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In 2002, Angry Anderson played with former members of The Angels at the Bali Relief concert in Perth, Western Australia, held in aid of victims of the Bali bombing.
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Angry Anderson is involved in the Dunn Lewis Youth Development Foundation, which is a lasting legacy of two of the 88 Australian lives lost in the bombings.
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In 2003, Angry Anderson appeared in a cameo role as the character Kris Quaid in the independent Australian feature film Finding Joy.
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Angry Anderson appeared in a guest role in the Australian movie Suite for Fleur, as Silas, Fleur's father, a carpenter and furniture maker living in Byron Bay.
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In 2014, Angry Anderson was featured on 7mate's successful television series Bogan Hunters as one of eight celebrity judges.
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Later that year, Angry Anderson scored a role in the motion picture Fat Pizza vs Housos.
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In July 2007, Angry Anderson was criticised by some after espousing his views on Muslim immigration to Australia when he told the Sydney Daily Telegraph:.
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In 2012, Angry Anderson participated in the SBS doco-reality show Go Back To Where You Came From, in which six Australians, each with differing opinions on Australia's asylum seeker debate, were taken on a journey to which refugees have taken to reach Australia.
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Again endorsed by the National Party in September 2014, this time in the New South Wales seat of Cessnock for the 2015 state election, Angry Anderson withdrew his candidacy in February 2015, citing personal reasons.
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In 2016 Angry Anderson was endorsed as an Australian Liberty Alliance candidate for the Senate representing New South Wales at the 2016 federal election.
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In 1982, prior to one of Rose Tattoo's European tours, Angry Anderson met Lindy Michael.
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Angry Anderson is a single father and lives in the Sydney suburb of Beacon Hill.
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Angry Anderson appeared in a TV campaign promoting awareness of prostate cancer.