 After leaving school, he worked as a trainee disc jockey and started singing at local dances.From the age of 14, for 18 months he was lead vocalist of the Nomads, later known as the Strangers (not the Melbourne group called the Strangers), which consisted of Young, John Eddy (guitar), Warwick Findlay (drums), Don Prior (bass guitar) and Tony Summers (guitar).At eighteen-years-old, Young was host of TVW-7 Perth television pop music show "Club Seventeen" in early 1965.