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Rory Kevin O'Donoghue was born in 1949 in Queen Charlotte's Hospital in Hammersmith, England, the eldest son of Terence Joseph O'Donoghue and Sybil Eleanor O'Donoghue. Both parents were principals in the D'Oyley Carte Opera Company. In 1956 Terence gained the role of leading tenor in the company that was to tour Australia in a series of Gilbert and Sullivan productions so the family left England to travel by ship to Fremantle.

Rory O'Donoghue began playing guitar at age 7 and won many eisteddfods as a boy soprano. At age 12 Rory won the role of the Artful Dodger in the original Sydney production of Oliver at the Theatre Royal and followed at age 13 with the role of Friedrich von Trappe in the Sound of Music at the Tivoli Theatre. In 1963 at age 14 Rory met composer Peter Best and the POGS band was formed to play Peter's compositions. A year later the POGS were asked to provide the music for the Sydney University Architecture Revues and it was here that Rory met Grahame Bond, Geoffrey Atherden and Peter Weir.