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MILESTONES AND MEMORIES
Daddy Cool’s debut album, Daddy Who? Daddy Cool!, topped the Australian charts this week in 1971, the start of a seven-week reign.
Mike Brady’s Up There Cazaly (credited to The Two Man Band) hit number one in Australia this week in 1979.
Forty years ago this week, Koo De Tah’s Too Young For Promises entered the Top 40.
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.
Twenty years ago this week, Stoneage Cameos, a tribute to the first Hoodoo Gurus album, was released.
The Dingoes, Kev Carmody, Little Pattie, Mental As Anything and John Paul Young were inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame this week in 2009.
This week in 2011, Cold Chisel released their first studio recording in 13 years, All For You. It was the final recording by drummer Steve Prestwich.
Also this week in 2011, Hunters & Collectors announced they were re-forming to play at the V8 Supercars in Sydney on December 3. It would be the band’s first full gig since their 1998 farewell tour (they also played at Sound Relief in 2009).
And this week in 2011, Gotye became the first Aussie act to have the number one single (Somebody That I Used To Know) and album (Making Mirrors) in the same week since Silverchair did the double in April 2007 with Straight Lines and Young Modern.
Happy Birthday to Mick Harvey who is 67 on August 29.
And we remember Skyhooks singer Graeme “Shirley” Strachan, who died in a helicopter crash, aged 49, this week in 2001.
CHART WATCH
Crowded House’s Don’t Dream It’s Over spends a fourth week in the Top 40.
Don’t Dream It’s Over CROWDED HOUSE (number 38)
Sydney deathcore band Justice For The Damned land at 13 with their third album, while Mama Kin Spender enjoy a Top 20 debut.
Stay Relentless JUSTICE FOR THE DAMNED (number 13, debut)
Promises MAMA KIN SPENDER (20, debut)
Fall From The Light HILLTOP HOODS (36)
HOWZAT! PLAYLIST
The Hardest Part CHARLIE COLLINS
In Another Life G FLIP
As Good As Gold ASHLEY NAYLOR
My Tender Memory MELODY POOL
If I Could Turn Back Time PAUL DEMPSE
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