Ray Columbus, along with his band The Invaders, took Australasia by storm in 1964. That year their cover of the Senators single, 'She's a Mod' (released the same year), became the first song by a New Zealand band to reach No.1 offshore. Incidentally, the drummer for the Senators was a 16 year old John Bonham, who would later join a little band called Led Zeppelin.

Pictured here in the early 1970s, this image of Ray Columbus comes from the Television New Zealand Dunedin Photographic Collection.

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