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MILESTONES AND MEMORIES
Fifty years ago this week, Skyhooks scored their second chart-topping album when Ego Is Not A Dirty Word hit number one. It would spend 11 weeks on top.
Also 50 years ago this week, Skyhooks’ All My Friends Are Getting Married entered the Top 40.
And 50 years ago this week, Marcia Hines scored her first Top 40 hit when Fire And Rain entered the charts.
The final Countdown went to air this week in 1987. It was a special edition of the Countdown Rock Awards at the Sydney Entertainment Centre.
Twenty years ago this week, Renée Geyer, Smoky Dawson, The Easybeats, Hunters & Collectors, Normie Rowe and Split Enz were inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame.
This week in 2007, Marcia Hines, Frank Ifield, Hoodoo Gurus, Jo Jo Zep & The Falcons, Brian Cadd and Radio Birdman were inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame.
Also this week in 2007, Glenn Wheatley was sentenced to 30 months jail, with a minimum of 15 months, for tax evasion.
To mark 50 years of the Adult Contemporary chart, this week in 2011 Billboard ranked the Top 100 AC songs of all time, with Savage Garden at number one with Truly Madly Deeply.
Happy Birthday to the great Australian record producer Charles Fisher who is 75 on July 19.
And we remember Dragon singer Marc Hunter, who died of throat cancer, aged 44, this week in 1998.
CHART WATCH
For the 11th week in a row there are no Australian singles in the Top 40.
Sydney punk band FANGZ have a Top 10 debut on ARIA’s albums chart.
Shui FANGZ (number eight, debut)
HOWZAT! PLAYLIST
Rolling On WALIENS
Valentine TILLY FENTON
Over, Over & Out DAVEY LANE
Dopamine RHYSICS
The Same As Me ROSS WILSON
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