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Ric Formosa

Riccardo Formosa (born 1 September 1954) is an Italian-born Australian musician and composer. He was the lead guitarist of the pop band Little River Band from 1975 to 1976 and recorded their first

Riccardo Formosa (born 1 September 1954) is an Italian-born Australian musician and composer. He was the lead guitarist of the pop band Little River Band from 1975 to 1976 and recorded their first two albums, Little River Band and After Hours. Early life Formosa was born in Rome, Italy, but grew up in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He migrated to Australia in 1974 and worked as a music arranger and studio musician. For the latter, he wrote the song “Bourbon Street” and co-wrote “Another Runaway” with fellow member Beeb Birtles. References Further reading *Barkl, Michael. 2010. Vertigo: Riccardo Formosa’s Composition Technique. Saarbrücken. * Barkl, Michael. 1997. Riccardo Formosa. The Oxford Companion to Australian Music (ed. Warren Bebbington). Melbourne: OUP. External links *

Era
Post-War
Lived
1954–present
From
Australia
Born in
Rome
Known as
composer, record producer

Contemporaries

Composers of the same nationality whose working lives overlapped — computed across all 11,984 dated composers in this library, not taken from any single article.