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MILESTONES AND MEMORIES
Fifty years ago this week, Mick Jagger was accidentally shot in the hand while shooting Ned Kelly in Braidwood, NSW.
Midnight Oil’s Diesel And Dust hit number one in Australia this week in 1987, the start of a six-week reign.
INXS’s Never Tear Us Apart entered the charts this week in 1988.
The Cruel Sea’s The Honeymoon Is Over entered the charts this week in 1993.
This week in 2012, The Sapphiresbecame the first Australian soundtrack to top the Australian charts since Moulin Rouge in 2001.
Cold Chisel announced they were breaking up this week in 1983. And this week in 2013, they announced they were starting their own label, Cold Chisel Music, to distribute their catalogue and any new recordings through Universal Music.
Also this week in 2013, it was announced that Russell Morris’ The Real Thing, The Atlantics’ Bombora, Peter Allen’s I Still Call Australia Home and Archie Roach’s Took The Children Away were among the recordings added to the National Registry of Recorded Sound.
Happy Birthday to Missy Higgins, who is 36 on August 19. Mark “Cal” Callaghan, from GANGgajang and The Riptides, is 62 on August 20. Rick Springfield is 70 on August 23. And Mushroom Records’ founder Michael Gudinski is 67 on August 22.
And we remember Magic Dirt founding member and bass player Dean Turner, who died of cancer, aged 37, 10 years ago this week.
CHART WATCH
Tones and I’s Dance Monkey spends a third week at number one. It’s the longest-running chart-topper by an Aussie female solo artist since Gabriella Cilmi’s Sweet About Me in 2008.
Dance Monkey TONES AND I (number one)
Choir GUY SEBASTIAN (16)
Johnny Run Away TONES AND I (18)
Never Seen The Rain TONES AND I (22)
Little Things JESSICA MAUBOY (25)
Easier 5 SECONDS OF SUMMER (32)
Then What ILLY (36)
The Teskey Brothers spend a second week in the Top 5 with their second album, while Safia and Seeker Lover Keeper have Top 20 debuts.
Run Home Slow THE TESKEY BROTHERS (number three)
Life CONRAD SEWELL (10)
Story’s Start or End SAFIA (13, debut)
Wild Seeds SEEKER LOVER KEEPER (14, debut)
A Place We Knew DEAN LEWIS (19)
The Great Expanse HILLTOP HOODS (22)
Coro Drive ROUTE 33 (26, debut)
Between Us HAYDEN JAMES (36)
HOWZAT! PLAYLIST
Visions of Graceland CITY CALM DOWN
Seven Day Weekend UNDERGROUND LOVERS
Holla & Moan THE MCNAMARR PROJECT
Only One WHTSQR
The Equality of the Sexiness THE FAUVES
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