Peter Jefferies was the towering personality of New Zealand's scene in the second half of the decade. Peter and his brother Graeme grew up in Stratford, a service town for the local dairy farming area in the verdant Taranaki. They were encouraged in their musical endeavours by their family. Graeme was given a guitar and Peter a drum kit. By 1981, they had formed a band called Nocturnal Projections.

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