Edward Charles Nimmervoll Eduard Nimmervoll was an Australian music journalist, author and historian.
15 Facts About Ed Nimmervoll
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Ed Nimmervoll worked on rock and pop magazines Go-Set and Juke Magazine both as a journalist and as an editor.
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Ed Nimmervoll was an author of books on the same subject and co-authored books with musicians including Brian Cadd and Renee Geyer.
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At the Music Victoria Awards of 2014, Ed Nimmervoll was inducted into the Music Victoria Hall of Fame.
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Eduard Ed Nimmervoll was born in Leonfelden, Austria on 21 September 1947 to Eduard Franz and Ludmilla Ed Nimmervoll, as the third of four children.
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Ed Nimmervoll's father was an Austrian Army sergeant, later a savings bank director and then teacher.
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Ed Nimmervoll moved with his family to Melbourne in February 1956 via SS Arosa Kulm.
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Go-Set was Australia's first national pop magazine and Ed Nimmervoll started contributing while still at university in 1966.
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Ed Nimmervoll began compiling a national top 40 singles chart from 5 October 1966, later he wrote record reviews and by 1973 became its editor.
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Ed Nimmervoll was involved in creating Take 40 Australia, a local radio version of American Top 40.
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Ed Nimmervoll authored, co-authored or edited a number of books, including Friday on my mind: a year by year account of popular music in the Australian charts in 2003.
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Ed Nimmervoll was a contributor of biographies on the website Allmusic, mainly covering Australian performers and bands as diverse as country music legend Slim Dusty and post-grunge band Grinspoon.
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Ed Nimmervoll co-wrote "Red-Headed Wild Flower" with Beeb Birtles for the Little River Band album Sleeper Catcher.
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Ed Nimmervoll attended the ARIA Music Awards of 2013 on 1 December, where he "[passed] out for four minutes", raising concerns for his health.
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Ed Nimmervoll died of brain cancer on 10 October 2014 at the age of 67.