The Man in the Picture songwriter Garry Koehler dead at 64

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Beloved Australian songwriter Garry Koehler, who rose to fame with his band The Bobkatz after penning The Man in the Picture, has died in his Queensland home.

Mackay first met Koehler in a blues club when the pair were picked to play in a band withThe Bobkatz then started doing cover gigs in Hervey Bay, but before too long Koehler's original songs were what the audience wanted to hear.

Despite the name of the band being labelled 'a bit too blue singlet' there was no turning back once they had national airplay of their debut single The Man In The Picture."So as I was wiping tears out of my eyes I said, 'that works', and from that moment we kept introducing new original material and recording professionally."The ABC's Australia All Over program, presented by Ian McNamara, put the song into the spotlight and the hearts of Australia.

To this day it receives thousands of streams all over the world and is widely used as a tribute song.The Bobkatz became country music festival favourites and won national awards at Mildura and were nominated for Golden Guitars in Tamworth. In 2010 Bobkatz won the Tamworth Songwriters Association gongs, Contemporary Song of the Year and Best Country Song of the Year, for The Writer.

 

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