Australian musician-turned-manager Glenn Wheatley has been remembered as a visionary who saw the potential of FM radio, and a washed-up pop singer named John Farnham, when few others did.

Wheatley, who died on Tuesday in Melbourne aged 74 from COVID-19 complications, was bassist for The Masters Apprentices in the 1960s, managed Little River Band to the top of the US charts in the 1970s, launched Australia’s first FM radio station in 1980 and famously mortgaged his house to finance Farnham’s 1986 album, Whispering Jack, which became the country’s second biggest-selling album of all time.