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Skyhooks - The Latest And Greatest
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REST IN PEACE SHIRL - WE MISS YOU!!!!!
Artist...............: Skyhooks
Album................: The Latest And Greatest
Genre................: Glam Rock
Source...............: CD
Year.................: 1990
Ripper...............: EAC (Secure mode) / LAME 3.92 & Asus CD-S520
Codec................: FhG
Version..............: MPEG 1 Layer III
Quality..............: Insane, (avg. bitrate: 320kbps)
Channels.............: Joint Stereo / 44100 hz
Tags.................: , ID3 v2.3
Ripped by............: fcjvisser on 29/07/2008
Posted by............: fcjvisser on 31/07/2008
Included.............: NFO
Covers...............: Front Back
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Tracklisting
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1. JukeBox In Siberia
2. Living In The 70s
3. You Just Like Me 'Cos I'm Good In Bed
4. Balwyn Calling
5. Horror Movie
6. Smut
7. All My Friends Are Getting Married
8. Ego (Is Not A Dirty Word)
9. Million Dollar Riff
10. This Is My City
11. BBBB Boogie
12. Crazy Heart
13. Blue Jeans
14. Party To End All Parties
15. Women In Uniform
16. Tall Timber
Playing Time.........: 01:02:21
Total Size...........: 142.73 MB
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Skyhooks formed ca. 1973. They gained a cult following around Melbourne
but a poorly-received performance at the 1974 Sunbury Festival saw the
group booed off the stage. Soon afterwards, the original lead singer Steve
Hill resigned. To replace him, the group recruited occasional singer, surfer
and carpenter Graeme Strachan. The replacement of Hill by Strachan was a
pivotal moment for the band, as Strachan had remarkable vocal skills,
magnetic stage and screen presence. Alongside Macainsh's acerbic lyrics,
another vital facet of the group's sound was the twin-guitar attack of Red
Symons and Bob "Bongo" Starkie (younger brother of original guitarist Peter
Starkie).
Adopting elements of glam rock in their presentation and with lyrics that
presented frank depictions of the social life of young Australia in the 1970s,
the band shocked conservative middle Australia with their outrageous (for
the time) costumes, lyrics, and on-stage activities, with the result that seven
of the ten tracks on their debut album were banned by Australian commercial
radio. Much of the group's success derived from its distinctive repertoire,
most of which was penned by bassist Greg Macainsh.
Although Skyhooks was not the first Australian rock band to write songs in
Australia, about Australians, for Australians (rather than ditties about love or
songs about New York or other foreign lands), they were the first band to do
so and be commercially successful, and the songs were set apart from much
of the pop fare of the time thanks to Macainsh's mordant humour.
"Shirley" Strachan and Red Symons both went on to successful careers in
Australian commercial television. Symons now works on ABC radio and writes
humorous columns for the press. After the demise of Skyhooks, Starkie still
plays locally, Strauks became the drummer in the later line-up of noted
Melbourne rock band The Sports, and other acts such as The Bushwackers
and the Old Skydaddys. Macainsh played with John Farnham, and in recent
years has been a board member of both APRA and PPCA, and is now a
qualified lawyer. Strachan was killed in an air crash on August 29, 2001,
when the helicopter he was learning to fly crashed into Mount Archer near
Kilcoy, northwest of Brisbane.
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