The Seekers

Various lineups, some featuring Durham, continue to tour as a nostalgia act in Australia and overseas.
. They were very successful and lasted until 1975, at which point Potger got together again with Athol Guy and Bruce Woodley as the Seekers. Thayil joined forces with ex-Dead Kennedys vocalist Jello Biafra, former Nirvana bassist Krist Novoselic and drummer Gina Mainwal for one show, performing as the No WTO Combo during the WTO ministerial conference in Seattle on December 1, 1999 and would later contribute guitar tracks to Dave Grohl's side-project's album (PROBOT), which was released in 2004. As they and their older, conservative fans proceeded largely oblivious to the Swinging Sixties happening around them, they continued to tour and release albums for years afterwards. After the break-up of the original Seekers in 1968, one of its members, Keith Potger, created The New Seekers, a British group which bore little resemblance to the original. Cornell went on to make solo album Euphoria Morning and later formed the group Audioslave along with ex-members of Rage Against The Machine, while Cameron toured with Pearl Jam for their 1998 Yield Tour and subsequently joined the band as a permanent member. The scale of their poularity in Australia can be judged from fact that the legendary Woodstock Festival in the United States in 1969 drew about 500,000 people, and that at the time of the Seekers' Melbourne concert, Australia's population was only around 12 million people. A greatest-hits compilation, A-Sides, was released a few months later.

This is believed to be the largest audience ever assembled for an Australian concert event. Soundgarden announced its breakup in April 1997. In recognition of their achievements, the group was named Australians of the Year for 1967 and in March that year they returned to Australia for a triumphant homecoming tour, which included a record-breaking concert at the Myer Music Bowl in Melbourne which was attended by over 200,000 people. The band's final album was 1996's Down on the Upside. Their chart success peaked with the movie theme song Georgy Girl, written by Jim Dale, which reached #1 on the US and Australian charts and #3 on the UK charts in 1967, and sold 3.5 million copies worldwide. Superunknown was the band's breakout, driven by the single "Black Hole Sun". Bruce Woodley also co-wrote the song Red Rubber Ball with Simon. The film also featured a clip from the demo version of "Spoonman", a song from the band's 1994 album, Superunknown.

This was Simon's first UK success as a writer, and his first hit as a composer outside of his work with Simon & Garfunkel. The song appeared on the soundtrack album, as did a solo Cornell song, "Seasons". In 1965 they recorded a cover of Paul Simon’s Someday, Oneday, which reached #4 in Australia and #11 in the UK. The band made an appearance in the "grunge movie", Singles playing "Birth Ritual". It shot to #1 in Australia and the UK, and #4 in the USA and went on to sell 1.75 million copies worldwide, making them the first Australian pop group to have a Top 5 hit in all three countries simultaneously, and the first to sell over a million copies of a single. The band toured with Guns N' Roses to support the album, and later released the video Motorvision which was filmed on that tour. After signing with Lew Grade's Grade Agency and EMI's Columbia Records imprint, they released their version of Springfield’s I'll Never Find Another You in November 1964. Though successful, the album was overshadowed by Nirvana's Nevermind.

The distinctive soprano voice of lead singer Judith Durham, their sweet harmonies, memorable songs, and non-threatening image (encouraging the BBC to give them exposure) made them appealing to a broad cross-section of the pop audience, and they enjoyed a remarkable string of Top Ten albums and singles in Britain, America and Australia between 1964 and 1968. The new line up recorded Badmotorfinger in 1991. He produced all of their most successful records and wrote or co-wrote many of their hits. He was briefly replaced by Jason Everman, formerly of Nirvana, who appeared on the Louder Than Live video, but Ben Shepherd ended up in the band as a permanent replacement. After a brief career in Australia, the group travelled to the UK in early 1964, where they were discovered by songwriter-producer Tom Springfield, the brother of pop star Dusty Springfield. After the release of the album Yamamoto left to go back to college. They were the first Australian popular music group to achieve significant chart and sales success in the United Kingdom and the United States. In 1989 the band released their first album for a major label, Louder Than Love, released through A&M Records.

The Seekers were a group of Australian folk-influenced popular musicians which was formed in Melbourne in 1963. Though the band were being courted by major labels, in 1988 they signed to SST Records to release their debut album, Ultramega OK, for which they earned a Grammy nomination. A compilation was issued as Screaming Life/Fopp in 1990. The band signed to Sub Pop, releasing the Screaming Life EP in 1987, and the Fopp EP in 1988. In 1986 Sundquist left the band, to be replaced by Matt Cameron, who had been the drummer in Skin Yard.

The band recorded two songs which appeared on a compilation for C/Z Records called Deep Six which also featured songs by Green River, Skin Yard, and The Melvins. Cornell originally played drums while singing, but the band enlisted Scott Sundquist to free Cornell up to concentrate on vocals. The band was named after an outdoor art/sound installation called "The Sound Garden" located in Seattle's Magnuson Park which makes eerie sounds when the wind blows. The band was formed in 1984 by Chris Cornell (vocals) and Hiro Yamamoto (bass), who were later joined by Kim Thayil (guitar), who had moved to Seattle from Illinois with Yamamoto and Bruce Pavitt, who would later start Sub Pop Records.

Soundgarden was a seminal Seattle rock band instrumental in creating the sound that came to be called grunge.