MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) - Judith Durham, Australia’s folk music icon who achieved global fame as the lead singer of The Seekers, has died. She was 79. Durham died in Alfred Hospital in Melbourne on ...

Speaking with The Australian in 2018, she related with a smile her recent experience of receiving a letter from a young fan who had singled out an obscure cover song from 1974 as his favourite of her ...

Yet here was a boy near the start of his life, taking the time to thank one of ­Australia’s greatest artists for a stirring vocal performance captured on record more than four decades ­earlier. Durham ...