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 and collapses killing 12 people. Joh Bjelke-Peterson was confusing us all with his mastery of the English language and Don Dunstan was putting his own unique stamp on South Australian politics.

Think Big wins its second Melbourne Cup and Easts beat St George 38-nil to make it 2 premierships in a row.

On TV Graham Kennedy utters his fateful “Crow call” which sees him banned from our sets for some time. In Film “Picnic At Hanging Rock” is released and goes on to become an Aussie classic.

Some of the folks born in 1975 include Anthony Mundine, Andrew Symonds, Natalie Bassingthwaighte, Mark Viduka and future terrorist wannabe David Hicks.

1975 also saw the last of the fabled Sunbury Concerts which featured bands such as AC/DC, Ariel, Ayers Rock, Billy Thorpe & the Aztecs, Buster Brown, The Captain Matchbox Whoopee Band, Chain, Daddy Cool, Deep Purple, Kush, La De Das, Linda George, Matt Taylor, Skyhooks, Renée Geyer and Sanctuary, The Keystone Angels, Madder Lake, Ross Ryan and Sherbet

So, what were we listening to in 1975? Try some of these on for size.

Skyhooks – Horror Movie

John Paul Young – Yesterday’s Hero

Richard Clapton – Girls On The Avenue

Ted Mulry Gang – Jump In My Car

Sherbet – Summer Love

Hush – Boney Maroney

Bob Hudson – The Newcastle Song

Billy Thorpe – It’s Almost Summer

Like always, I’d love to hear your thoughts and memories of 1975 in the comments below. See you there!

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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 were posing for “risque” portraits, Gough Whitlam was Prime Minister, The Eastern Suburbs Roosters were Rugby League Premiers, Richmond won the VFL Final, John Howard enters politics as an opposition backbencher and Think Big wins the Melbourne Cup. Andrew Johns, Shane Webcke and Ricky Ponting are all born in 1974 and two classic films are screened for the first time, Stone and The Cars That Ate Paris. Christmas 1974 saw the city of Darwin flattened by cyclone Tracey.

In cricket, Jeff Thomson and Dennis Lillee were wreaking havoc on a shell-shocked English side in The Ashes.

The third Sunbury concert rocked Victoria with a lineup that included Blackfeather, The 69′ers, Skyhooks, The Dingoes, Kush, Buster Brown, Chain, Madder Lake, MacKenzie Theory, Ayers Rock, Sid Rumpo, Ross Ryan, Daddy Cool (reformed for this concert) and Queen

1974 was also the first year that Countdown screened in Australian homes and it changed our lives. It really brought great Aussie music to the masses and genuinely had us huddling around the TV set each week to see who was number 1. Also on TV that year we were watching timeless classics such as “The Class Of ’74″ and “The Box”.

So, here are some of the great Australian tunes we were listening to in 1974, Enjoy!

AC/DC – Can I Sit Next To You Girl (Featuring Dave Evans on Vocals)

Sherbet – Slipstream

Stevie Wright – Evie (This clip is from 1979 but the song was a hit in 1974)

Ross Ryan – I Am Pegasus

The Bootleg Family – Shoop Shoop Song

Brian Cadd – Let Go

Theme from Aunty Jack

If you’ve got any thoughts or memories from 1974 I’d love to hear from you in the comments section below. Likewise, if you know of any film clips from then, let me know & I’ll include them here.

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