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Goanna is an Australian rock band which formed in 1977 in Geelong as The Goanna Band with mainstay Shane Howard as singer-songwriter and guitarist. The group integrated social protest with popular music and reached the Top 20 on the Australian Kent Music Report Singles Chart with "Solid Rock" (1982) and "Let the Franklin Flow" (released under the name Gordon Franklin & the Wilderness Ensemble ...
The Goanna Band is the four-track debut extended play (EP) by Australian indie pop, folk rock group of the same name, which was later trimmed to Goanna.The EP was released in 1979 by Rose Bygrave on keyboards and vocals, Gary Crothall on drums, Warwick Harwood on lead guitar and vocals, Shane Howard on guitar and lead vocals, Ian Morrison on harmonica and vocals, and Carl Smith on bass guitar.
Joanna the Goanna, a pet lizard to antagonist Percival McLeach in Disney's The Rescuers Down Under; The protagonist of the 1968 British film Joanna; Joanna McCoy, daughter of Leonard McCoy of Star Trek; Joanna May, title character in The Cloning of Joanna May, a science fiction novel by Fay Weldon; Jo Parrish, a police constable on Blue Heelers
A goanna features as the heroic figure Mr Lizard in the Australian author May Gibbs’ children's books Snugglepot and Cuddlepie. A bronze statue of the goanna Mr Lizard has been placed outside the State Library of Victoria. The villain in the Disney film The Rescuers Down Under, Percival C. McLeach, has a pet goanna named Joanna.
A goanna is any of several Australian monitor lizards of the genus Varanus. Goanna may also refer to: Goanna fish, Halosaurus pectoralis; Goanna (band), an Australian folk-rock band "The Goanna", a codename for Australian businessman Kerry Packer, used in media reports about the Costigan Commission
Snake Island in the middle of the river, on the right is Pelican Island and in the background is Goanna Headland. In Australian Aboriginal mythology (specifically Bundjalung, from the northern New South Wales coast and South-East Queensland) Dirawong is a goanna Ancestral Being who taught humans how to live on the land, as well as important ceremonies and rituals.
Marcia Louise Howard (born 5 January 1961) is an Australian multi-instrumentalist, singer-songwriter, academic, and music educator. She was a long-term member of folk-rock group, Goanna (1980–85, 1986, 1998) on vocals and keyboards.
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