Max Merritt, New Zealand-Australian singer-songwriter (died 2020)

Max Merritt

New Zealand-born singer-songwriter (1941–2020)

Maxwell James Merritt was a New Zealand-born singer-songwriter and guitarist who was renowned as an interpreter of soul music and R&B. As leader of Max Merritt & The Meteors, his best known hits are "Slippin' Away", which reached No. 2 on the 1976 Australian singles charts, and…