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Australian Crawl was an Australian rock band formed by James Reyne (lead vocals/piano) and Simon Binks (lead guitar) in 1978 and joined by Guy McDonough (co-lead vocals, rhythm guitar), Bill McDonough (drums, percussion), Paul Williams (bass guitar), and Brad Robinson (rhythm guitar). The band was named after the front crawl swimming style also known as Australian crawl. The band's music was a defining feature of Australian surf culture during the 1980s. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ...
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1978 (MCMLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday. ...
1986 (MCMLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
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The EMI Group (LSE: EMI) is an English music company comprising the major record company, EMI Music which operates several labels, based in Brook Green in London, England, and EMI Music Publishing, based on Charing Cross Road, London. ...
James Reyne (born James Michael Nugent Reyne on 19 May 1957 in Nigeria) is a popular Australian singer/songwriter. ...
Simon Binks is an Australian rock guitarist who is best known for his work with band Australian Crawl during the late seventies and early eighties. ...
Guy McDonough was an Australian rock musician best known for playing rhythm guitar with the band Australian Crawl. ...
James Reyne (born James Michael Nugent Reyne on 19 May 1957 in Nigeria) is a popular Australian singer/songwriter. ...
In music a singer or vocalist is a type of musician who sings, i. ...
A short grand piano, with the top up. ...
Simon Binks is an Australian rock guitarist who is best known for his work with band Australian Crawl during the late seventies and early eighties. ...
Lead guitar refers to a role within a popular music band, especially a rock band, that provides melody or melodic material, as opposed to the rhythm of the rhythm guitar, bass, and drums. ...
1978 (MCMLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday. ...
Guy McDonough was an Australian rock musician best known for playing rhythm guitar with the band Australian Crawl. ...
In music a singer or vocalist is a type of musician who sings, i. ...
Rhythm guitar is a guitar that is primarily used to provide rhythmic and harmonic accompaniment for a singer or for other instruments in an ensemble. ...
A drum is a musical instrument in the percussion family, technically classified as a membranophone. ...
Percussion instruments are played by being struck, shaken, rubbed or scraped. ...
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Rhythm guitar is a guitar that is primarily used to provide rhythmic and harmonic accompaniment for a singer or for other instruments in an ensemble. ...
Swimmer breathing during front crawl Front crawl is the fastest swimming style known. ...
// Surf culture is the culture surrounding the sport of surfing, originating during the 1950s and 1960s but which continues to this day. ...
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History
Their 1980 debut album The Boys Light Up had a number of hit singles including the title track; "Indisposed"; "Downhearted" and "Beautiful People". The Boys Light Up appeared on the Aussie charts for 104 weeks. In 1981 the band released their second album, Sirocco. This album contained the hits "Lakeside", "Things Don't Seem" and "Errol", a song written about the Australian actor Errol Flynn. It was produced by Peter Dawkins in Sydney. 1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday. ...
A debut album is the first released record album by an artist or a band. ...
The Boys Light Up is the debut album from Australian rock band Australian Crawl and contains such hits as the title track; Indisposed, Downhearted and Beautiful People. ...
A song which has charted in one of the worlds music charts, or (if a specialist genre of music) had proven popularity. ...
1981 (MCMLXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Sirocco is a 1981 album from Australian rock band Australian Crawl. ...
Errol Leslie Thomson Flynn (June 20, 1909 – October 14, 1959) was an Australian film actor, most famous for his romantic swashbuckler roles in Hollywood films and his flamboyant lifestyle. ...
Peter Dawkins is a New Zealand-born record producer and sometime musician, who has been based in Australia since the early 1970s. ...
In 1982, they released the Sons of Beaches album. The album was recorded in Hawaii with producer Mike Chapman. The album featured the hit "Shutdown" and it became their third album in a row to reach the top five in the Australian charts. 1982 (MCMLXXXII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Sons of Beaches is the third album in a row from Australian rock band Australian Crawl to hit the #1 position in the Australian charts. ...
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The Brothers Chaps are Mike Chapman and Matt Chapman (b. ...
Soon afterwards Bill McDonough left the band. The remaining members then recorded the EP Semantics. The EP contained what would become possibly their best-known song, "Reckless". Semantics was a 1983 ep by Australian surf rock band Australian Crawl. ...
The first of two deaths in the group came in 1984 when Guy McDonough died in Melbourne of viral pneumonia secondary to endocarditis due to intravenous amphetamine use. 1984 (MCMLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Guy McDonough was an Australian rock musician best known for playing rhythm guitar with the band Australian Crawl. ...
Pneumonia is an illness of the lungs and respiratory system in which the alveoli (microscopic air-filled sacs of the lung responsible for absorbing oxygen from the atmosphere) become inflamed and flooded with fluid. ...
The band recorded their final studio album, Between A Rock And A Hard Place, in 1985. Between a Rock and a Hard Place is a book, published in 2004, that recounts the life of Aron Ralston as it leads up to his entrapment in Blue John Canyon in the Utah desert. ...
1985 (MCMLXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Tensions within the band caused them to disband in 1986. Performing a final concert on 27 January 1986, the concert was recorded and released under the title The Final Wave. In seven years, Australian Crawl sold over a million records in Australia. 1986 (MCMLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
January 27 is the 27th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ...
1986 (MCMLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
After the split After the group disbanded, Reyne went on to pursue a successful solo career. Robinson moved into a career in television (with Network Ten's Page One) and documentaries; in the 1990s he became the manager for the Reyne brothers, James and David. (David had been the drummer in Reyne and Binks' first band, Spiff Roach.) This article is about the Australian television network. ...
Page One (è‘‰å£¹å ‚) is a group of book shops, book retailers and publisher in Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Malaysia, and Thailand. ...
David Reyne is an Australian television presenter. ...
After a three-year battle with lymphoma, Robinson died on 13 October 1996. The band was inducted into the Australian Record Industry Association (ARIA) Hall of Fame in 1996, just before Robinson's death. This article is about lymphoma in humans. ...
October 13 is the 286th day of the year (287th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ...
The Australian Record Industry Association (ARIA) is a trade group representing the Australian recording industry. ...
In 2002, EMI released a two-CD Greatest Hits package called Australian Crawl: James Reyne, The Definitive Collection, which contained songs from the band and from James Reyne's solo career. For album titles with the same name, see 2002 (album). ...
The EMI Group (LSE: EMI) is an English music company comprising the major record company, EMI Music which operates several labels, based in Brook Green in London, England, and EMI Music Publishing, based on Charing Cross Road, London. ...
Discography
Studio albums The Boys Light Up is the debut album from Australian rock band Australian Crawl and contains such hits as the title track; Indisposed, Downhearted and Beautiful People. ...
Sirocco is a 1981 album from Australian rock band Australian Crawl. ...
Sons of Beaches is the third album in a row from Australian rock band Australian Crawl to hit the #1 position in the Australian charts. ...
Between a Rock and a Hard Place is a book, published in 2004, that recounts the life of Aron Ralston as it leads up to his entrapment in Blue John Canyon in the Utah desert. ...
Live albums - Phalanx (1983)
- The Final Wave (1986)
EPs Semantics was a 1983 ep by Australian surf rock band Australian Crawl. ...
Trivia Prior to the formation of the band in 1978 (circa. 1976) Reyne and Binks played in a band with guitarist Mark Hudson who is credited as co-writer of their first hit song "Beautiful People".
In October 2006, a number of Australian Crawl songs have been featured in the Triple M Essential 2006 Countdown of songs including: October 2006 is the tenth month of that year and has yet to occur. ...
Triple M is a network of radio stations owned by the Austereo Radio Network. ...
- "Louie Louie" (voted 1988 out of 2006)
- "Lakeside" (voted 1818 out of 2006)
- "Boys Light Up" (voted 1342 out of 2006)
- "Beautiful People" (voted 1298 out of 2006)
- "Downhearted" (voted 1177 out of 2006)
- "Indisposed" (voted 883 out of 2006)
- "Things Don't Seem" (voted 771 out of 2006)
- "Oh No Not You Again" (voted 714 out of 2006)
- "Shutdown" (voted 655 out of 2006)
- "Errol" (voted 275 out of 2006)
External links - Official James Reyne website
- Australian Crawl at MusicBrainz
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