Graeme Strachan

Graeme Ronald Strachan (1952 to 2001), known as Shirley Strachan or Shirl, was an Australian singer, songwriter, television and radio presenter and carpenter, best known as the lead singer of the rock group Skyhooks. He grew up in Mount Waverley, Victoria, and became an avid surfer; fellow surfers gave him the nickname Shirley because of his long, sun-bleached curly hair. In 1972 he moved to Phillip Island to take up surfing and part-time carpentry, surfing at Woolamai beach between jobs. He later hosted the children's program Shirl's Neighbourhood and co-hosted the renovation program Our House, and in the 1990s a surfing group formed around him in Queensland. He died in a helicopter crash in 2001, and Noosa Heads Surf Lifesaving Club holds a memorial surf swim in his name.