[1] The family moved to Mount Manypeaks near Albany, Western Australia in 1959 where they settled on a sheep farm of 3,000 acres (1,200 ha).

[1] Early in 1972 Ross Ryan issued a split single with his track, "Sounds of Peppermint", backed by The Statesmen's "Keep on Truckin'".

[4] Ryan signed with a manager, Al Maricic, and started regular gigs at Gramps Wine Bar and played at university campuses.

[2] Ryan got his break when Maricic heard that the proposed support act, comedian Joe Martin, had pulled out in Darwin.

[2] In Australia Ryan has performed on campus tours, at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl with the Hector Crawford Orchestra, at the Sydney Opera House and at the Sunbury Pop Festival (January 1974).

[2][7] He has supported tours by international acts, The Hollies (May 1973), Helen Reddy (November 1973),[8] Roberta Flack (1977), Michael Franks, Roger Miller and Dr. Hook (1977).

[1][3] APRAP's Debbie Kruger interviewed Ryan in 2002 and he explained how he had merged two songs to form "I Am Pegasus": One was about the fact that I had just discovered that Ross means horse; I’d looked it up in a baby book, and I thought that was really funny ... also at the time I was having a really disastrous attempt at a relationship with an air hostess.

[11][12] Then Prime Minister of Australia, Gough Whitlam, presented Ryan's first gold records for the album My Name Means Horse and the single "I am Pegasus".

[13] He hosted his own pop TV program, Rock Show, and continued to release albums including After the Applause (June 1975) and Smiling for the Camera (April 1977).

The following year, Ryan, with Mike Meade (co-host of Flashez), hosted, wrote and acted in a half-hour comedy TV show, Give 'Em Heaps, on Australian Broadcasting Corporation for twenty episodes.

[17] In 1990, Ryan co-wrote a revue, Les Boys (A Masculine Sensation), with comedians Rod Quantock, Lynda Gibson and Geoff Brooks.

[1][19] In 1990 EMI, through its budget label, Axis Records released another compilation album, The Greats of Ross 1973–1990, which also included previously unreleased material.

Keith Glass of Capital News felt the album was "finely manicured and honed work with an astounding variety of styles and sounds".