It was covered by British pop group, Herman's Hermits, as "Here Comes the Star", in November, which reached No.
[1] Wyllie was the presenter of pop music TV show, Uptight, since October 1967, which was broadcast on ATV-0, Melbourne.
17 hit on Go-Set's National Top 40 in July 1969, with his cover of Ray Stevens' 1963 song, "Funny Man".
[1][6] Young had previously written two number-one hits, "The Real Thing" and "The Girl That I Love" (both 1969), for another singer, Russell Morris.
[14][15] Australian musician and music critic Robert Forster, praised three of the best late 1960s pop stars "Pop singing is an art... it was cathedral-sized: listen to Normie Rowe sing 'It's Not Easy', or [Wyllie] 'The Star', or Colleen Hewett 'Superstar'".