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Australian Singles Chart for 1991 20 Aug 2013 | 04:45 pm
These are the songs that Australians were listening to in 1991. Here is the end of year singles chart based on sales. Top Australian Singles “Tingles” (EP) – Ratcat “The Horses” – Daryl Braithwaite...
Bill Putt has passed away 17 Aug 2013 | 10:38 am
Legendary Australian bass player Bill Putt passed away from a heart attack on the 7th of August 2013. The response from the industry was incredible. He was a guy who was not only a renowned musician b...
Sherbet 13 Jul 2013 | 10:58 am
Sherbet was a band I didn’t rate very highly for a while until I saw them live. I suppose they were considered a little bit lightweight if you only went on the stuff the radio was playing but when you...
War & Peace Nightclub Parramatta 8 Jul 2013 | 03:21 pm
War & Peace Nightclub Parramatta was an iconic live music venue of the seventies and eighties and was probably the first real nightclub that I ever went to as a fresh faced 17 year old in 1979. I’d be...
Australian Singles Chart for 1990 15 Jun 2013 | 06:34 am
These are the songs that Australians were listening to in 1990. Here is the end of year singles chart based on sales. Top Australian Singles “Mona” – Craig McLachlan & Check 1-2 “I Need Your Body” – T...
Cold Chisel – The Early Years 1 Jun 2013 | 11:16 am
Cold Chisel are one of the most important bands of the seventies and eighties pub rock scene. They dominated the charts and venues all over the Country from the time they hit the charts in 1978 till t...
Chris Bailey has passed away 4 Apr 2013 | 07:26 am
News has come through this morning that Chris Bailey has lost his battle with cancer and passed away peacefully last night. I first met Chris in the early 1990′s when I had the pleasure of doing a cou...
The Lost Husky 9 Mar 2013 | 04:40 am
The Lost Husky began in 1998 as a solo acoustic side-project for Chris Newton, the bass player for 1990s Sydney alternative rock bands Psyclone Smyle, Tooth and User. It started out as a country-infus...
Aussie Music Trivia Is Back! 2 Mar 2013 | 08:52 am
The Trivia section of this site was one of the most popular by far but after some issues with the software we had to abandon it. Over the past few weeks it has been reconstructed at the Australian Mus...
Rick Doolan – twenty years passed. 20 Feb 2013 | 02:30 am
Editors note: This article was first published in Connections magazine in 1993. As the 20th anniversary of Rick’s death approached I contacted Julius Grafton, the author and publisher of Connections (...
