Master’s Apprentices’ Keays Dies

Keays, 67, battled multiple myeloma, a bone marrow cancer, for seven years but continued to tour and has a solo album out in August. Formed in 1965, the Master’s Apprentices notched up hits including “Undecided,” “Living In A Child’s Dream,” “Turn Up Your Radio” and “It’s Because I Love You.”

They were inducted into the Australian Recording Industry Association Hall of Fame in 1998. Keays discussed their bad-boy reputation in his 1999 memoirs “His Master’s Voice: The Masters Apprentices: The Bad Boys Of Sixties Rock ‘n’ Roll.”

Artist manager Glenn Wheatley, who played in the Masters, said, “Jim had an aura about him, you always knew he was in the room.”