Classic Aussie Music
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1977 sits right in that sweet spot of Australian music history — the moment when local artists weren’t just filling the gaps between overseas hits, they were owning the charts. It was a year of…
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Here’s a little piece about the Balmain indie-rock scene I grew up in. Originally published, in part, in a small article in the local Balmain paper Village Voice in 2006/2007. By the late 1970s, Balmain…
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In 1977 I was in my last year of high school and music was becoming an important part of my life, along with the beach! If you lived in Sydney like me you were listening…
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1976, I remember it like it was yesterday. I was in year 9 at high school. Malcolm Fraser was our Prime Minister then, back in the days he could keep his trousers on. Neville Wran…
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What were you up to in 1975? It was the year that saw Sir John Kerr sack Gough Whitlam as Prime Minister of Australia. The Tasman Bridge in Tasmania is hit by a passing ship…
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1974, I remember it well. It was my first year of High School and I was just becoming aware of how good Aussie music was at the time. Pop band Sherbet was posing for “risque”…
