The Seekers singer Judith Durham a life in pictures | Music

The pioneering Australian vocalist, who found worldwide fame in the 1960s as frontwoman for Melbourne folk/pop group the Seekers before going solo, has died aged 79 Mon 8 Aug 2022 03.23BST Photograph: David Farrell/Redferns

The Seekers singer Judith Durham – a life in pictures

The pioneering Australian vocalist, who found worldwide fame in the 1960s as frontwoman for Melbourne folk/pop group the Seekers before going solo, has died aged 79

Main image: Australian singer Judith Durham in London in February 1971. Durham performed with the Seekers from 1963 until 1968, when she left to pursue a solo career. The band later reunited. Photograph: Evening Standard/Hulton Archive

Mon 8 Aug 2022 03.23 BST

  • The Seekers sold more than 50m records worldwide. (L-R) Bruce Woodley, Keith Potger, Judith Durham and Athol Guy.

  • Judith Durham circa 1966.

  • The Seekers released a stream of international hits, including I’ll Never Find Another You, The Carnival Is Over, A World of Our Own, Morningtown Ride and Georgy Girl.

  • The band meet Lu-Lu the performing Porpoise at Jack Evans’ Pet Porpoise Pool in Tweed Heads, New South Wales, in 1969.

  • The quartet in London in 1966. (L-R) Keith Potger, Bruce Woodley, Judith Durham and Athol Guy.

  • Judith Durham performs on 4-3-2-1 Hot and Sweet in Germany in 1970. The Seekers disbanded in 1968, but reunited in the 1990s.

  • Judith Durham with her husband, British pianist Ron Edgeworth, in February 1971.

  • The Seekers were the first Australian band to sell more than a million records.

  • Judith Durham and producer Gus Dudgeon at Abbey Road Studios in London.

  • Judith Durham and the Seekers perform at the Royal Albert Hall in London in 1994 after the band reunited.

  • The Seekers in February 2000: (L-R) Keith Potger, Athol Guy, Bruce Woodley and Judith Durham.

  • The Duchess of York (left), patron of the British Motor Neurone Disease Association, in London with Judith Durham, patron of the Australian branch of the MNDA, in November 1994.

  • The original members of the Seekers, Keith Potger (second from left), Judith Durham (fourth from left), Bruce Woodley (fifth from left) and Athol Guy (second from right) take a curtain call with cast members during the opening night of Georgy Girl: The Seekers Musical at the State Theatre in Sydney on 6 April 2016.

  • Judith Durham in Melbourne in November 2011. She died on 5 August 2022 from the chronic lung disease bronchiectasis.
Topics

ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7tbTEoKyaqpSerq96wqikaKWlqLake8aao6Wdoq58c3yRa2aarZdkfXl706GcZquVmrimvtJmqqKml5q%2FbrbUnaCtoF2ZwrO0wKZkmmWcnrOmecinZKmhk6nCs7HS

 Share!