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Australian Musicians born in February

  • 4th Feb 1975 — Natalie Imbruglia

Australian Musicians passing away in February

  • 14th Feb 2007 – Smoky Dawson – Country music legend whose career lasted more than six decades. He was almost 95.
  • 19th Feb 1980 – Bon Scott – AC/DC, Fratenity, The Valentines. Aged 33
  • 28th Feb 2007 – Billy Thorpe – Aged 60

Number One Singles in Australia in February

  • 1970 – Johnny Farnham “Raindrops Keep Fallin’ On My Head”
  • 1971 – George Harrison “My Sweet Lord”
  • 1972 – David Cassidy “Cherish”, Benny Hill “Ernie (The Fastest Milkman in the West)” and Melanie “Brand New Key”
  • 1973 – Lobo “I’d Love You to Want Me” and Carly Simon “You’re So Vain”
  • 1974 – David Bowie “Sorrow” and Grahame Bond “Farewell Aunty Jack”
  • 1975 – William Shakespeare “My Little Angel” and The Carpenters “Please Mr. Postman”
  • 1976 – Ted Mulry Gang “Jump in My Car”
  • 1977 – Pussyfoot “The Way You Do It”
  • 1978 – Wings “Mull of Kintyre” and Bonnie Tyler “It’s a Heartache”
  • 1979 – Rod Stewart “Do Ya Think I’m Sexy?”, The Mojo Singers “C’mon Aussie C’mon” and Chic “Le Freak”"
  • 1980 – Michael Jackson “Don’t Stop ’til You Get Enough”, KC and the Sunshine Band “Please Don’t Go” and Queen “Crazy Little Thing Called Love”
  • 1981 – John Lennon “(Just Like) Starting Over” and Slim Dusty “Duncan”
  • 1982 – Lindsey Buckingham “Trouble” and Soft Cell “Tainted Love”
  • 1983 – Laura Branigan “Gloria”
  • 1984 – INXS “Original Sin” and Pat Benatar “Love Is a Battlefield”
  • 1985 – Band Aid “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” and Foreigner “I Want to Know What Love Is”
  • 1986 – Whitney Houston “Saving All My Love for You” and Feargal Sharkey “A Good Heart”
  • 1987 – The Bangles “Walk Like an Egyptian” Kim Wilde “You Keep Me Hangin’ On”
  • 1988 – Bill Medley and Jennifer Warnes “(I’ve Had) The Time of My Life”
  • 1989 – The Beach Boys “Kokomo”, Womack & Womack “Teardrops” and The Proclaimers “I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles)”

Videos

Billy Thorpe with “Most people I know”
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Happy Australia Day!

by Mark Gibson on January 26, 2010

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Happy Australia Day to you all. I’ve never tried an open thread before so I’m not sure how this will work but here we go…

All you need to do is leave a comment below telling us about your favourite Australian Music. That’s it!

It could be about your favourite band, song, concert or whatever you like. As long as it’s Aussie.

I’ll kick the conversation off with a few videos of bands I had the pleasure of working with during my days as a touring sound engineer.

James Blundell “This Road”
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Rick Price “A House Divided”
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More from Jeff White – Cold Chisel, Men At Work, Moving Pictures and Sharon O’Neill

January 10, 2010
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Here’s another great set of classic Aussie band images from Jeff White.
In this article you’ll find Cold Chisel, Men At Work, Moving pictures and Sharon O’Neill. Enjoy!
If you, like Jeff, have some great old snaps of some classic Australian bands then scan them & send them over. We’d love to display them here.
Cold Chisel
Men At [...]

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This month in Australian music – January

January 1, 2010
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Australian Musicians born in January

4th Jan 1947 – Bernard “Doc” Neeson – The Angels. Born in Belfast, Ireland
6th Jan 1953 – Malcolm Young – AC/DC. The seventh of eight children, born to William and Margaret Young in Glasgow, Scotland.
8th Jan 1959 – Paul Hester – Split Enz, Crowded House – Born Paul Newell Hester in [...]

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Bandanna Desk Tape Found

December 27, 2009
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A few weeks back I had the extreme pleasure of finding a few old cassette tapes in a box in my garage. Amongst the rubbish was a couple of gems including these four songs here. They are from a live desk tape of Bandanna which was recorded around 1989 at, to the best of my [...]

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December 19

December 19, 2009
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On this day
Australian musicians who died on December 19th

2007 – Damo Morris – lead singer for The Red Shore, died in a bus crash in New South Wales. The Melbourne based band were touring with American band All Shall Perish when they crashed on the Pacific Highway, outside of Coffs Harbour. One of the bands [...]

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December 9

December 9, 2009
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Australian musicians born on December 9

1958 – Nick Seymour – Crowded House – Born Nicholas More Seymour in Benalla, Victoria

Australian musicians who passed away on December 9

2008 – Les Kaczmerek, founding member and original bass player in Cold Chisel died on this day in Adelaide of liver failure. He was 53 years old.

On this day [...]

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Australian Music History now on Twitter

December 3, 2009
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Hi Folks, you can now follow this site on Twitter at http://twitter.com/ausmusichistory
Twitter has really taken off in a big way and is a great way to keep up to date.
We’ll send out updates, important dates and general news on Australian Music History.
Be sure to follow this site today!

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November 6

November 6, 2009
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Australian musicians born on the 6th of November

1947 – George Young of The Easybeats, Vanda and Young, Flash and the Pan and many others was born George Redburn Young in Glasgow, Scotland.

Number 1 Singles in Australia on November 6

1970 – (They Long To Be) Close To You – The Carpenters
1971 – Banks Of The Ohio [...]

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The Angels – Wyong Leagues – 30th July 2009

November 2, 2009
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I had the pleasure a few months ago of working on an Angels tour. I was the sound engineer for Black Label who were the support. It’s a bit of a spin out to be working on the same show as The Angels who I first saw in 1978!  They were brilliant. The tempos were [...]

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