Vince Lovegrove

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Vince Lovegrove is an Australian music manager, journalist, television producer and musician best known as the manager of rock group Divinyls.

[edit] The Valentines

Lovegrove started his career in the 1960s as the singer in Perth pop group The Wynstones. Rival group The Spektors contained drummer and sometime singer Bon Scott. Lovegrove and Scott split their bands and formed a new pop group with two vocalists: The Valentines. They issued several singles from 1967 onwards on Martin Clark's Clarion label and had moderate success in Australia, before splitting in the late 1960s.

[edit] The 1970s

Moving to Adelaide, by the early 1970s Lovegrove briefly managed AC/DC (with Bon Scott as vocalist) and Cold Chisel, but factors, including becoming a parent, led him into journalism and television production in Adelaide. He relocated to Melbourne, and produced The Don Lane Show in 1978. In 1979 he produced a music documentary "Australian music to the world".

[edit] Divinyls and beyond

In 1981 he moved to Sydney and became manager for Divinyls, splitting his time between Sydney and New York. He split from Divinyls by 1987 and for a time managed ex-Cold Chisel guitarist Ian Moss. In the 1990s he spent several years working in London as a journalist.

Vince married American-born actress Suzi Sidewinder. Suzi was HIV-positive, and transmitted the virus to their son, Troy. Vince featured in television documentaries that were made about Suzi and Troy's lives, and later published a book titled A Kid Called Troy.

As of 2006 he lives in Sydney, Australia. In July 2006 he wrote a profile of his friend Bon Scott for The Australian newspaper. This commemorated what would have been Scott's 60th birthday (Scott died in 1980).