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Bernard "Doc" Neeson (born 4 January 1947 in Belfast, Northern Ireland) is an Australian rock singer. Neeson is known as the lead singer and frontman for Australian hard rock band The Angels.
Neeson was conscripted to the Australian army, serving as an education corps sergeant in Papua New Guinea in the late 1960s. He subsequently went back to university and completed degrees in film and English.
Since the '70s, Neeson has been known as the lead singer and frontman for The Angels.
He was part of the Tour of Duty - Concert for the Troops held for the InterFET Troops in East Timor during December 1999. He performed a number of Angels songs and duets with John Farnham and The Living End. On New Year's Eve 1999, Neeson announced his departure from The Angels at the MGM Grand Darwin Millennium Concert after suffering a severe spinal injury in a car accident on a Sydney "M4" motorway that year. Always known for his very physical live performances, he was warned by a back specialist and Angels fan that he ran the risk of being in a wheelchair if he kept performing. .