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MILESTONES AND MEMORIES
Cold Chisel won seven awards at the Countdown Rock Awards this week in 1981 – and then trashed the set.
This week in 1966, Billy Thorpe started hosting his own music show on Channel Seven in Sydney called It’s All Happening! His Aztecs were the house band.
Red Symons’ replacement, Bob Spencer, did his first gig with Skyhooks, at a surfing contest in Phillip Island, this week in 1977. Shirley Strachan introduced the new guitarist: “He doesn’t drink, he doesn’t smoke, he’s into the ecology and he’s a shit-hot little c***.”
This week in 1978, five Gibb songs were in the US Top 10 – Love Is Thicker Than Water, Stayin’ Alive, Emotion, Night Fever and If I Can’t Have You. Such chart dominance had not been seen since The Beatles occupied all five spots in the US Top 5 in 1964. And this week in 1979, the Bee Gees scored their eighth number one single in the US when Tragedy topped the charts.
INXS did their first American show, for 24 people at a club in San Diego, this week in 1983. Their first US tour was supporting Adam Ant.
Sherbet and Percy Grainger were inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame this week in 1990, while Kylie Minogue was given an Outstanding Achievement Award.
Billy Thorpe, Glenn Shorrock, Don Burrows and Peter Dawson were inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame this week in 1991.
Silverchair released their debut album, Frogstomp, this week in1995. It entered the Australian charts at number one and later became the first Australian album since INXS’s X to hit the US Top 10.
Jet were grounded this week in 2012, issuing a statement on their website: “After many successful years of writing, recording and touring we wish to announce our discontinuation as a group. From the many pubs, theatres, stadiums and festivals all across the world it was the fans that made our amazing story possible and we wish to thank them all. Thank you, and goodnight.” They have since taken off again.
Happy Birthday to the great Harry Vanda (real name: Johannes van den Berg), who is 74 on March 22. Colin “Smiley” Petersen, the Bee Gees’ drummer from 1966 to 1969, is 74 on March 24. He was also an A&R man for EMI in Australia in the ’70s. INXS’s Andrew Farriss is 61 on March 27.
And we remember Crowded House drummer Paul Hester, who died, aged 46, this week in 2005. Former Valentines singer and Divinyls manager Vince Lovegrove died in a car accident, aged 65, this week in 2012. And Rose Tattoo’s Pete Wells died of prostate cancer, aged 59, this week in 2006.
CHART WATCH
After topping Triple J’s Hottest 100 of the 2010s, Tame Impala’s 2015 single The Less I Know The Better cracks the Top 40 for the first time, debuting at 17. It’s Tame Impala’s first Top 40 single. And Tones and I scores her fourth Top 40 hit.
Dance Monkey TONES AND I (number eight)
The Less I Know The Better TAMA IMPALA (17, debut)
Bad Child TONES AND I (18, debut)
Never Seen The Rain TONES AND I (21)
Rushing Back FLUME FEATURING VERA BLUE (27)
Live In Life THE RUBENS (31)
The Fire Fight live album lands at number one, while Adam Brand, Ocean Grove and Fanny Lumsden enjoy Top 10 debuts.
Artists Unite for Fire Fight VARIOUS (number one, debut)
Speed Of Life ADAM BRAND (six, debut)
Flip Phone Fantasy OCEAN GROVE (eight, debut)
Fallow FANNY LUMSDEN (10, debut)
Juveniles KINGSWOOD (14, debut)
The Slow Rush TAME IMPALA (16)
The Kids Are Coming TONES AND I (29)
A Place We Knew DEAN LEWIS (32)
All For You: The Best of Cold Chisel COLD CHISEL (39)
Currents TAME IMPALA(40)
HOWZAT! PLAYLIST
This Too Shall Pass FANNY LUMSDEN
If You Go Down The River THINGS OF STONE AND WOOD
We’re Home BENNY WALKER
Kind of Hard DALICADOS
Answered Prayers HOODOO GURUS
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