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A tribute to my late father Ian Thomas, bassist for The Missing Links.

"The Missing Links were a band without pretence or compromise. In 1965 when they were billed as 'Australia's wildest group' it wasn't just the usual 'industry' hyperbole or rhetoric - it was a statement of fact. And it's a fact that still holds true today ... In early 1964 nothing unbelievably wild, frenzied or manic had happened in the Australian music scene. It was just about to." Peter Markmann

"Sydney's Missing Links were the first to play guitars like The Rolling Stones used; they were the first guys to sport very long unruly hair; they were the first group to implement destruction into a stage act; they were the first with a lot of things, bless their pioneering souls." Glenn A Baker

"They were wild, rebellious, accessible. That's how we felt on the inside, that's how they looked on the outside. Plus, their rock attitude was much more extreme than the mainstreamers. Johnny O'Keefe with his short hair and tight pants wasn't The Wild One anymore - if he ever was. The Missing Links made all Oz 'legends' look so straight. After them, even the Beatles seemed dull; the Links' genre was much more the Stones and the Animals. If Sydney was larger then, and they'd written more of their own material, who knows? If Malcolm McLaren had seen them, they would have died young, rich and famous." Richard Neville

Rolling Stone:A lot of Australian bands have named AC/DC as the band that inspired them to get started. Which Australian bands did you admire when you started? Angus: There were a few bands that I thought were a good influence, like the Loved Ones out of Melbourne and the Missing Links out of Sydney because they were sort of blues based, and I was into that. Angus Young, AC/DC