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Hero is the debut studio album by Australian pop singer John Paul Young. The album was released in October 1975 and peaked at 9 and stayed in the charts for 20 weeks.The album was certified gold in Australia.
John Paul “Squeak” Young was the most popular and successful Australian male solo singer of the late Seventies. He is also without question one of the finest male pop-rock vocalists this country has ever produced. He is gifted with a dynamic, powerful, soulful and gritty tenor voice, reminiscent of the great British R&B singer Chris Farlowe, who was no doubt one of his early idols. The peak period of his pop career was 1975-79 before that he was a member of Sydney band Elm Tree (1969- 71), and he had a stint in the rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar (1972-74).
Between 1975 and 1980 John was a genuine teen idol and one of the most popular male performers in the country, with Sherbet's Daryl Braithwaite and Skyhooks' Shirley Strahan his only serious rivals. But unlike Skyhooks and Sherbet (who scored only one UK hit), John's records were hugely success overseas. He became the first local solo performer whose records consistently topped the charts in Europe, the USA and most notably in South Africa, where his popularity was as great as it was back home in Australia. This international success is often overlooked, but he unquestionably blazed a trail for Australian music overseas and helped to pave the way for later acts like Little River Band, Men At Work and Air Supply.
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