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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Hi . I’m finding it difficult to find any info on an Aus band from 1975 called “Pantha”… they recorded an album named Dowaydo at trafalga studios dec 1974 , mixed at sparmac studios feb 75 ..album number ZL 212 , maybe you’d like to add them to your history info ,,,,someone may know about them …
Hi Mark, the “Who’s who of Australian Rock” lists Pantha as being from Melbourne from 1975-76 and you are correct about the album.
If I can find a bit more info and an image or two I’ll look at doing a listing. Thanks for your comment.
Cheers, Mark Gibson
Update… I found this link which may be of interest to you too.
Pantha
Saw this blog while surfing the net, my name is also Mark Carius and I have never met another Mark Carius or assumed one existed. So if you get this message, let me know where you come from ???
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hi i hitchhiked from Adelaide to sunbry with my sister in 75 , what an experience i was just 17 it was the best rock experience of my life . it rained most of the time and got real muddy but no one seemed to care saw some AUZ rock legends and heard the worlds loudest band play songs from there new album storm bringer i am glad i was there it was the last one unfortunately there was heaps of booze and smoke but no one noticed the cops were cool great memories