Johnny Devlin was born John Lockett Devlin on 11 May 1938 in New Zealand.
Devlin’s cover of Lloyd Price‘s Lawdy Miss Clawdy (1958) went to #1 in the New Zealand charts with sales of more than 100,000, launching him on a career as “New Zealand’s answer to Elvis Presley“.
In 1964 he toured Australia and New Zealand as a support act for The Beatles.
77-year-old Devlin suffered a heart attack in June 2015 while onboard a P&O cruise ship. He was transferred to St Vincent’s Hospital in Sydney in critical condition and received a triple bypass which saved his life.
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Devlin’s cover of Lloyd Price‘s Lawdy Miss Clawdy (1958) went to #1 in the New Zealand charts with sales of more than 100,000, launching him on a career as “New Zealand’s answer to Elvis Presley“.
