Editing Johnny Young (section)

===Early life===
Johnny Young was born as Johnny Benjamin de Jong on 12 March 1947 in [[Rotterdam]],<!-- Birth details are verified by a number of sources, see note [A] below. Do not change without better references. --> the Netherlands.<sup id="nbFoot01a" class="reference">[[#noteFoot01a|[A]]]</sup> He was conceived as a result of an affair between his mother, Anna Wilhelmina (20 July 1913 – 29 December 1989) and a musician, Johannes.<ref name="NAADeJong"/><ref name="Aus Story"/><ref name="Money"/> He was raised as the youngest son of Anna and her husband Fokke Jan de Jong (22 March 1914 – 15 July 1989), who was in the [[Royal Dutch East Indies Army|Royal Netherlands East Indies Army]] and served in [[Indonesia]] after World War II.<ref name="NAADeJong"/><ref name="Aus Story"/> His [[half-sibling]]s are Cornellia (born 13 February 1936), Antonia (born 22 August 1937) and Ferdinand (born 13 November 1944).<ref name="NAADeJong"/><ref name="Aus Story"/> Their father was still in Indonesia from December 1946 until September 1948 when Young was one-and-a-half years old.<ref name="Aus Story"/><ref name="NAA DeJong 2"/> The family migrated to Perth, Western Australia, Fokke arrived in July 1953,<ref name="NAA DeJong 2"/> and they settled in the [[Perth Hills]] suburb of [[Kalamunda, Western Australia|Kalamunda]], in the 1950s.<ref name="McF"/> Fokke worked as a welder on industrial projects including the [[Kwinana Oil Refinery]]. His mother was in a choir and inspired his early interest in music.<ref name="Marner"/> On 25 August 1959 Johnny, Ferdinand and Fokke were [[Naturalization|naturalised]] as Australian citizens.<ref name="NAA DeJong 2"/>

Young's mother took him to Saturday morning radio shows for children and he would sing along. He performed solo songs wearing a specially made jacket.<ref name="Money"/> After leaving school, he worked as a trainee disc jockey and started singing at local dances.<ref name="McF"/> 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 (Australian band)|the Strangers]]),<ref name="McF"/><ref name="Marner"/> which consisted of Young, John Eddy (guitar), Warwick Findlay (drums), Don Prior (bass guitar) and Tony Summers (guitar).<ref name="Strangers"/>