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Lobby Loyde, whose loud, plectrum-bending guitar style blasted from rock pubs and concert venues throughout the 60s and 70s, was acknowledged as a father figure of Australian rock music.

He died in Box Hill Hospital last night after a long battle with lung cancer that eventually spread throughout his body.

He was a driving force behind the Aztecs, whose founder and singer, Billy Thorpe, died of a heart attack in February.

Loyde was born John Baslington Lyde in Longreach, Queensland, in 1941. His mother was a classically trained pianist and his father a jazz trumpeter and as a teenager he joined them in country town performances in outback Queensland.

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