George Sich, an old friend of mine, has just released a brilliant new E.P. entitled “True Story, I Swear”. I’ll admit to being biased ’cause I know George and did his website, but this is a great recording. He is a very talented songwriter/musician and had the help of some other great Australian musicians such as Kere Buchanan, Peter Northcote, Bill Risby, Michel Rose, Leon Gaer and Mick Albec.
Here’s what George himself had to say:
“Believe it or not these are all love songs, young, old, getting it right, getting it wrong, star-crossed, intoxicating or just plain intoxicated. Although the stories here are true, I have, of course, exercised some artistic freedom, altered names, places and times to protect both the guilty and the innocent. I wish to extend my gratitude to the friends that encouraged me to make this record and motivated me to use the best musicians available, seriously world class players, and I am very privileged to have my name on the same record, I hope you enjoy it as much as I did making it.”
“True Story, I Swear” is available right now on CD or as a digital download. Have a listen for yourself and pass it on to all your friends.
15th Mar 1970 – Christine Anu – Born in Cairns, Qld.
20th Mar 1955 – Ian Moss – Cold Chisel, Solo. Born in Alice Springs, NT.
22nd Mar 1946 – Harry Vanda – The Easybeats, Vanda and Young – Born Johannes Hendricus Jacob Vandenberg in The Hague, Netherlands.
29th Mar 1959 – Andrew Farriss – INXS – Born Andrew Charles Farriss in Perth, Western Australia.
31st Mar 1955 – Angus Young – AC/DC – Born Angus McKinnon Young in Glasgow, Scotland.
Australian Musicians passing away in March
26th Mar 2005 – Paul Hester – Split Enz, Crowded House aged 46 (Born January 8, 1959)
Number One Singles in Australia in March
1970 – Johnny Farnham “Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head”, Shocking Blue “Venus” and Led Zeppelin “Whole Lotta Love”
1971 – George Harrison “My Sweet Lord”, The Mixtures “The Pushbike Song” and Dawn “Knock Three Times”
1972 – Don McLean “American Pie”
1973 – Carly Simon “You’re So Vain”
1974 – Grahame Bond “Farewell Aunty Jack” and Alvin Stardust “My Coo Ca Choo”
1975 – The Carpenters “Please Mr. Postman”
1976 – CW McCall “Convoy” and Queen “Bohemian Rhapsody”
1977 – Pussyfoot “The Way You Do It” and Mary MacGregor “Torn Between Two Lovers”
1978 – Bonnie Tyler “It’s a Heartache” and The Babys “Isn’t it Time”
1979 – Chic “Le Freak”
1980 – Queen “Crazy Little Thing Called Love”
1981 – The Swingers “Counting the Beat” and Adam and the Ants “Antmusic”
1982 – Soft Cell “Tainted Love”, The J. Geils Band “Centerfold” and Moving Pictures “What About Me”
1983 – Laura Branigan “Gloria” and Joe Cocker & Jennifer Warnes “Up Where We Belong”
1984 – Pat Benatar “Love Is a Battlefield” and Cyndi Lauper “Girls Just Want to Have Fun”
1985 – Foreigner “I Want to Know What Love Is”, Murray Head “One Night in Bangkok” and Tears for Fears “Shout”
1986 – Dionne Warwick with Gladys Knight, Elton John & Stevie Wonder “That’s What Friends Are For” and Billy Ocean “When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Get Going”
1987 – Kim Wilde “You Keep Me Hangin’ On”, Boris Gardiner “I Want to Wake Up with You” and George Michael & Aretha Franklin “I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me)”
1988 – Bill Medley & Jennifer Warnes “(I’ve Had) The Time of My Life” and Kylie Minogue “I Should Be So Lucky”
1989 – The Proclaimers “I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles)”, Ian Moss “Tucker’s Daughter” and Fine Young Cannibals “She Drives Me Crazy”
14th Feb 2007 – Smoky Dawson – Country music legend whose career lasted more than six decades. He was almost 95.
18th Feb 2010 – Ruby Hunter – Born in 1955, she was 55 years old
19th Feb 1980 – Bon Scott – [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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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