Vince Lovegrove

Who was Vince Lovegrove?

Vincent James "Vince" Lovegrove was an Australian journalist, music manager, television producer, AIDS awareness pioneer and musician. He was a member of 1960s rock 'n' roll band The Valentines, sharing vocals with Bon Scott whom he later introduced to heavy rock group AC/DC. As a journalist, he wrote for Australia's teen music newspaper Go-Set from 1971, and was based in London for Immedia! from 1994 for over eight years. As a manager, his former clients include pub rock singer Jimmy Barnes and rock group Divinyls.

Both his second wife, Suzi Sidewinder, and their son, Troy Lovegrove, died of HIV/AIDS; each was the subject of documentaries by Lovegrove, Suzi's Story and A Kid Called Troy respectively, which were telecast on Australian TV and internationally. He wrote, A kid called Troy: The moving journal of a little boy's battle for life in 1993, and an unauthorized biography of INXS frontman Michael Hutchence in 1999. Lovegrove had alleged that Hutchence's domestic partner, Paula Yates, had deceived him and used her pregnancy to ensnare him, the subsequent libel case was settled by an undisclosed amount from the book's Sydney and London publishers, and the newspaper The Mail on Sunday which had serialised parts in April 1999.