Ten sound recordings with cultural, historical and aesthetic significance have been added to Sounds of Australia for 2020. 

Thorsten Kaeding pays tribute to Max Merritt, the New Zealand-born singer-songwriter and lead singer of Max Merritt & The Meteors.

To celebrate Sir Elton John's farewell tour, we've found some rare press conferences and interviews from previous visits to Australia in 1974, 1984 and 1988.

Channel 7 footage from Elton John's Australian press conference in February 1974 ahead of his Australian concert tour. 

In order to earn a living, the members of this rock'n'roll band must work in mundane jobs during the day. At night they pursue their dreams of musical success.

The NFSA celebrates Australian rock music journalist Lillian Roxon with an online curated collection featuring her work in radio.

Dubbed 'the mother of rock', Lillian Roxon was the most influential rock journalist in the world from the mid-1960s to the early 1970s.

We pay tribute to rock journalist and NFSA Oral History interviewer, Anthony O'Grady.

If you like your Christmas with hard-hitting rock’n’roll, AC/DC’s offering may be just the song.

‘Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas’ was written for the MGM musical Meet Me in St Louis (Vincente Minnelli, USA, 1944).