{"id":113524,"date":"2025-06-22T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-21T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/ballarat\/?p=113524"},"modified":"2025-06-18T22:29:23","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T12:29:23","slug":"rock-legend-to-bring-his-cool-world-to-ballarat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/ballarat\/living\/rock-legend-to-bring-his-cool-world-to-ballarat\/","title":{"rendered":"Rock legend to bring his cool world to Ballarat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Celebrated singer and songwriter Ross Wilson has extended his 50 Years of Hits Tour due to overwhelming popular demand.<\/p>\n<p>Ross Wilson and the Peaceniks will perform at Her Majesty&#8217;s Theatre on Friday, June 27.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;People keep booking us, so we keep going,&#8221; said Wilson.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve travelled all over Victoria, then extended into New South Wales where we sold out and now, we&#8217;re coming back to Victoria where it all began.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We also toured in Tassie; Hobart, Launceston and Burnie.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The extension will bring the tour to over 150 performances, many of them in regional theatres.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This year marks 60 years since his first Melbourne hit single Louie Louie with his first band The Pink Finks.<\/p>\n<p>Wilson has 26 ARIA Top 40 hits to his credit as a singer, songwriter and producer, including Daddy Cool and Mondo Rock favourites.<\/p>\n<p>He has twice been inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame.<\/p>\n<p>A personal and crowd favourite song is Eagle Rock.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We leave it until the end, and it always gets everybody up and grooving, with encores and standing ovations,&#8221; Wilson said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s not just the older audience members, the younger crowd who weren&#8217;t even born when it came out, love it, too.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I guess it&#8217;s been passed down in their DNA.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Wilson said he will take a six-week break from the middle of August through September to visit his wife&#8217;s family in Greece but will be back performing in spring and summer.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I can&#8217;t imagine retiring,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I&#8217;ll probably keep going until I drop off the perch.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Tickets for the Ballarat show are available at <a href=\"http:\/\/ballarat.sales.ticketsearch.com\/sales\/salesevent\/144107\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ballarat.sales.ticketsearch.com\/sales\/salesevent\/144107<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Celebrated singer and songwriter Ross Wilson has extended his 50 Years of Hits Tour due to overwhelming popular demand. 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