Record success ran alongside – total record sales around the world have eclipsed the 30 million mark.16 hit singles by 1985, as well as gold, platinum, and multi-platinum album sales awards. Headlining their own major shows in America, and touring internationally with the likes of the Doobie Brothers, Supertramp, America, Heart, Boz Scaggs, Fleetwood Mac, and The Eagles was a huge learning curve that honed LRB into one of the finest live bands in the world. In 1976, after their self-titled debut album was released in the USA, the long grind of 13 US tours in eight years had begun.īy 1982 they became the only act – from anywhere – to have a top ten US single for six consecutive years. Within eight months of their birth, LRB had already scored three Australian Top 20 singles and two Top Ten albums. Little River Band was the first band to successfully conquer foreign markets from an Australian base.