BIOGRAPHICAL DETAILS
Full Name: Marc Alexander Hunter
Description: Vocalist, Australia
Known For: New Zealand rock and pop singer best known as the lead vocalist with Dragon
Instruments: Vocals
Music Styles: Rock
Location: New Zealand
Date Born: 7th September 1953
Location Born: Taumarunui, New Zealand
Date Died: 17th July 1998
Location Died: Kiama, New South Wales, Australia
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Web Site: http://users.adam.com.au/donald/marc2.htm
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BIOGRAPHICAL PROFILE
Mark Hunter
Marc Alexander Hunter (7 September 1953 – 17 July 1998) was a New Zealand rock and pop singer best known as the lead vocalist with Dragon, a band formed by his older brother Todd Hunter in Auckland in 1973. He was also with the band The Party Boys.
Mark Hunter was the lead vocalist with the popular New Zealand – Australian rock band, they were formed in Auckland, New Zealand in January 1972 and relocated to Sydney, Australia in May 1975 with his older brother Todd in Auckland in 1973.
Born in Taumarunui, Marc joined Dragon in 1974 and the band recorded two albums of progressive rock for Vertigo Records. The band moved to Sydney, Australia, in 1975.
Hunter developed a serious heroin addiction. Recklessly outspoken and volatile on-stage, during the band’s 1978 US tour supporting Johnny Winter he called the audience “faggots” at a show in Texas. The following year, he was fired from the band.
Hunter developed a serious heroin addiction. Recklessly outspoken and volatile on-stage, during the band’s 1978 US tour supporting Johnny Winter he called the audience “faggots” at a show in Texas. The following year, he was fired from the band.
Hunter and the band continued a mid-level career throughout the ’90s with something of an AOR sound but the singer’s years of hard living caught up with him and he was diagnosed with throat cancer in 1997 and could no longer perform or tour.
Friends immediately rallied round him and Renee Geyer organised a benefit concert to raise money for his treatment and provide for his children. The concert, Night Of The Hunter, was held in February 1998 at the Palais Theatre in St Kilda in Melbourne.
For the last few months of his life, Hunter underwent various forms of treatment including several alternative medicine remedies but none were successful and he died in Kiama on 17 July 1998.
Discography
with Dragon
Universal Radio (1974)
Scented Gardens for the Blind (1975)
Sunshine (1977)
Running Free (1977)
O Zambezi (1979)
Dragon’s Greatest Hits Vol 1 (1979)
Body and the Beat (1984)
Live One (1985)
Dreams of Ordinary Men (1986)
Bondi Road (1989)
So Far: Their Classic Collection (1990)
Incarnations (1995)
Solo
Fiji Bitter (1979)
Big City Talk (1981)
Communication (1985)
Night and Day (1990)
Talk to Strangers (1994)
with The Party Boys
You Need Professional Help (1985)
The Party Boys Rage Album (1985)