You’re never too old or too young to release your debut single. Just ask Harry Vanda. At 79, and with The Easybeats far behind him, Vanda has dropped one of the best rock tracks of 2025 – Devil Loose .

When I catch up with Vanda over Zoom, the Dutch-born legend of songwriting has a mischievous twinkle in his eye.

“Yeah,” he shrugs, when I tell him his new single is an absolute killer. “It started from a riff … and it just fell into place.”

Vanda makes it sound easy. As anyone knows who’s followed his journey from the migrant hostels of 1960s Australia to global chart-topping heights, Vanda’s journey with his creative partner George Young, who died in 2017, has had a huge impact on our shared cultural fabric.

With The Easybeats, Vanda helped pen Friday on My Mind . He co-wrote Good

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