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MILESTONES AND MEMORIES
Forty years ago this week, Skyhooks re-formed to play a one-off show at Melbourne’s Olympic Park, to celebrate 10 years of 3XY’s Rocktober as well as the 10th anniversary of Living In The 70’s.
The first episode of the music TV show Uptight, hosted by Ross D. Wyllie, went to air this week in 1967.
Men At Work’s Who Can It Be Now? hit number one in the US this week in 1982.
INXS were inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame this week in 2001.
This week in 2005, Wolfmother released their self-titled debut album, and Powderfinger’s Bernard Fanning released his debut solo album, Tea & Sympathy.
Midnight Oil were inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame this week in 2006.
Nick Cave was inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame this week in 2007.
The Loved Ones were inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame this week in 2010.
Happy Birthday to Icecream Hands singer Charles Jenkins who is 58, and Kevin Borich who is 76, on October 27. And Tina Arena is 57, and John Williamson is 79, on November 1.
And we remember Mick Hadley, singer with The Purple Hearts, who died of cancer, aged 70, this week in 2012.
CHART WATCH
The Kid Laroi and Vance Joy are still the only Aussie acts in ARIA’s Top 40 singles chart.
Nights Like This THE KID LAROI (number 24)
Riptide VANCE JOY (27)
Kylie Minogue scores her ninth number one album. No local woman has had more chart-toppers. Remarkably, all of Kylie’s chart-toppers have been in this century – she didn’t have a number one album in Australia until Light Years in 2000.
Tension II KYLIE MINOGUE (number one, debut)
The Epilogue DEAN LEWIS (two, debut)
Pacific Highway Music SKEGSS (four, debut)
I’m Sorry, Now Say It Back THELMA PLUM (seven, debut)
50 Years – The Best Of COLD CHISEL (22)
Inhale/Exhale RÜFÜS DU SOL (24)
The First Time THE KID LAROI (35)
3AM (La La La) CONFIDENCE MAN (40, debut)
HOWZAT! PLAYLIST
The Aeroplane HELEN SHANAHAN
The Way SARAH BLASKO
The Village Bell DANIEL JAMES HALL
The Divorce Song KASEY CHAMBERS & SHANE NICHOLSON
Nice To Meet Me MIA WRAY
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