death_date death_place children birth_place birth_date spouse birthname article_title name
24 march 2012 near bangalow , new south wales , australia holly lovegrove troy lovegrove lilli-rae fremantle , western australia , australia 19 march 1947 helen sidewinder -lrb- m. 1985 -- 1987 -rrb- caroline thompson -lrb- corkhill m. 1994 -- 1997 -rrb- -lrb- m. 1972 -- 1979 -rrb- suzi vincent james lovegrove vince lovegrove
 vince lovegrove
vince lovegrove

vincent james `` vince '' lovegrove -lrb- 19 march 194724 march 2012 -rrb- 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 '' -lrb- 1987 -rrb- and `` a kid called troy '' -lrb- 1993 -rrb- 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 .
lovegrove died in a car accident near byron bay , new south wales on 24 march 2012 .
