The Seekers lead singer Judith Durham will be given an Australian state funeral following her death on 5 August. The 1960s folk singer died in Melbourne aged 79, after suffering complications from an ...

MELBOURNE, Australia — Judith Durham, an Australian folk singer who achieved fame during the 1960s as the lead singer of The Seekers, died Friday. She was 79. Durham, whose hits with the band included ...

Judith Durham, Australia’s folk music icon who achieved global fame as the lead singer of The Seekers, has died. She was 79. Durham died in Alfred Hospital in Melbourne on Friday night after suffering ...

The Australian folk star died in a Melbourne hospital on Friday night after suffering complications from a lung disease Shafiq Najib is a former writer-reporter at PEOPLE. He left PEOPLE in 2023.

A few weeks ago, a YouTube video of a 1967 performance of the catchy tune “Georgy Girl” popped up on my computer screen. Remembering the song from my childhood—and only the song, not the group singing ...

The song, which originally featured on the soundtrack of a 1966 Oscar-nominated British film with the same title, speaks of loneliness and insecurity, seemingly at odds with the liberated spirit of ...