Skyhooks
Skyhooks was an Australian rock band of the 1970s, sometimes classified as a glam rock band, although this is mainly the result of the band's flamboyant costumes and makeup. The band shocked conservative middle Australia with their outrageous (for the time) costumes, lyrics, and on-stage activities, leading to seven of the ten tracks on their first album being banned from commercial radio. Much of the group's success derived from its distinctive repertoire, most of which was penned by bassist Macainsh. Although Skyhooks was not the first Australian rock band to write songs in Australia, about Australians, for Australians (rather than ditties about love or songs about New York or other foreign lands), they were the first band to do so and be commercially successful, and the songs were set apart from much of the pop fare of the time thanks to Macainish's mordant humour. The 'Hooks were the Australian pop success story of their era. Their first album, Living in the Seventies, rocketed to the top of the charts and stayed there for so long that it became the best selling Australian album ever up to that time, with the follow-up, Ego is not a Dirty Word, coming a close second. The band's success was also widely credited with saving the struggling Mushroom record label and enabling it to develop into the most successful independent Australian label of its time. Both these LPs were produced by Ross Wilson, former lead singer of Daddy Cool, which had been the most successful Austr...
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Horror Movie
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Women In Uniform
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Living in the 70's
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Jukebox In Siberia
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All My Friends Are Getting Married
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Ego Is Not A Dirty Word
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Million Dollar Riff
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Balwyn Calling
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You Just Like Me 'Cos I'm Good in Bed
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Smut
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Toorak Cowboy
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Living In The 70s
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This Is My City
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Blue Jeans
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Party To End All Parties
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Tall Timber
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Ego (Is Not a Dirty Word)
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Mercedes Ladies
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Carlton (Lygon Street Limbo)
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Crazy Heart
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Horror Movie - remastered
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Carlton
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Let It Rock
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Hey What's the Matter
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Forging Ahead
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Motorcycle Bitch
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Saturday Night
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Whatever Happened to the Revolution
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You Just Like Me Cause I'm Good In Bed
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You Just Like Me Cos I'm Good In Bed
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Living in the 70's - remastered
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Love on the Radio
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Love's Not Good Enough
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The Other Side
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BBB BBB Boogie
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Tigersnake Kiss
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Happy Hippy Hut
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Kooyong Dollar
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Smartarse Songwriters
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1976 Guitar
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BBBB Boogie
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My Girleen
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B B B Boogie
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Kickback
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Why Dontcha All Get *ucked
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Horror Movie (Remastered)
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Westgate Light
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All My Friends Are Getting Married - Remastered 1994
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Every Chase a Steeple
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Livin' In The 70's
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