Born: 1 July 1949
Real name: John Peter Farnham
Farnham was born in Dagenham, England but moved out to Australia with his family when he was 10 years old. In his mid-teens he performed in a band called The Mavericks. Soon after this he moved on to front a band called Strings Unlimited. It was while performing live with them that he came to the notice of Darryl Sambel, a talent manager who got him a recording contract with EMI. Within a year he sat at the top of the Australian charts with a version of the song, ‘Sadie (The Cleaning Lady)’, spending 5 weeks there. The song would be a minor SA hit for Fred Splinge that same year. Recording under the name Johnny Farnham, he went on to see 14 Aussie hits during the 70’s with his version of ‘Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head’ hitting the top spot in 1969. In 1976 he split with Sambel, who had been managing him and the hits dried up. Then in 1980 he met Glenn Wheatley who was managing Little River Band at the time. Now going under the name John Farnham, he recorded a version of The Beatles’ ‘Help’ which featured on the ‘Bubbling Under’ show on Springbok Radio for a couple of weeks, but never made the top 20. In Australia, the song went to number 8. He then spent some time fronting Little River Band after their vocalist left and would be their singer on 3 of their 16 US hot 100 hits. But he was never really happy in the group and headed out on a solo career again in 1986, seeing 2 further Aussie chart toppers with ‘You’re The Voice’ and ‘Age Of Reason’. In total he has seen 46 Aussie top 100 hits, 4 UK charting hits (best peak of 6 with ‘You’re The Voice’) and 1 solo US hit with ‘You’re The Voice’ getting to 82.
| Date of entry | Song | Peak (weeks at 1) | Weeks |
| 21-Jun-1987 | You’re The Voice | 4 | 22 |
| 24-Nov-1988 | Age Of Reason | 22 | 7 |
| Total hits | 2 | ||
| Total weeks | 29 |
| Biggest climber awards | 1 |
| Star rater climbs | 2 |
| Biggest fallers | 2 |
| Weeks with oldest in the charts | 0 |
| Longest run in the charts (weeks) | 22 |
| Weeks with more than 1 in the charts | 0 |
| Biggest gap between hits (weeks) | 53 |
| Top 30 points ranking | 352 |
| Top 20 points ranking | =379 |
| Top 30 points | 465 |
| Top 20 points | 224 |
SA Singles Charts 