Les Gock

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Les and Margaret Gock at the 2003 APRA Music Awards

Les Gock originally became famous through joining the Australian band Hush in 1971. As well as being a guitarist, Les was also a writer and co-producer, occupations that earned him 12 Gold Awards. After leaving Hush, Gock became a successful music and sound design director in film and television soundtracks. Since that time Gock has earned major awards for music excellence, including Gold Clios, Facts Awards, and New York International Advertising Festival Awards.

Gock's reputation as a successful entrepreneur and businessman has been well demonstrated through the success of the company he founded 'Song Zu' which has a reputation throughout the world for music for advertising and other commissioned soundtracks. He sold the business in 2001 and continues working with his new business Sound Thinking. More recently, Gock was the Chairman of the Australasian Writers and Art Directors Association (AWARD).

Gock is currently Chairman of the Commercial Music Producers Association (CMPA).

Gock went to Sydney Technical High School.

Gock has two children Adam [34] and Chad [28].

Les will be a special guest on The Vega Sunday Session with host Mark Gable Sunday the 17th of February 2008.