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Skyhooks were 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 make-up. This article does not cite any references or sources. ... In the music industry, a record label is a brand and a trademark associated with the marketing of music recordings and music videos. ... Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... This article is about the genre. ... The 1970s decade refers to the years from 1970 to 1979, also called The Seventies. ... Glam rock (also known as glitter rock), is a style of rock music, which initially surfaced in the post-hippie early 1970s. ... In music, a band is a company of musicians, or musical ensemble, usually popular or folk, playing parts of or improvising a musical arrangement on different musical instruments. ...

Skyhooks live at Nambassa 1978

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Line-up and history

The 'classic' line-up of the band was:

• Graeme "Shirley" Strachan (vocalist) (died in 2001)
• Red Symons (guitarist, vocalist)
• Bob "Bongo" Starkie (guitarist, vocalist)
• Greg Macainsh (bassist, vocalist)
• Imants "Freddie" Strauks (drummer, vocalist), aka "Freddie Kaboodleschnitzer"

Other musicians included: Strachan onstage with Skyhooks, 1978 Graeme Shirley Strachan (2 January 1952 - 29 August 2001) was the lead singer of Australian 1970s rock group Skyhooks. ... For other uses, see Singer (disambiguation). ... Red Symons (born June 13, 1949 in Brighton, England) is an Australian musician, writer, and radio host, probably best known as lead guitarist with the Skyhooks and as the snide judge of Red Faces, a The Gong Show-esque segment of the long-running Hey Hey Its Saturday variety... For the UK magazine, see Guitarist (magazine). ... Deon Rexroat of Anberlin. ... For the comic book character, see Drummer (comics). ... For the popular-music magazine, see Musician (magazine). ...

• Original lead singer — Steve Hill (died in 2005)
• Original guitarist — Peter Inglis
• Original guitarist — Peter Starkie
• Replacement singer (Post Strachan)— Tony Williams
• Replacement guitarist (Post Symons) — Bob Spencer

Skyhooks' debut Album Living in the Seventies

Skyhooks formed ca. 1973. They gained a cult following around Melbourne but a poorly-received performance at the 1974 Sunbury Festival saw the group booed off the stage. Soon afterwards, the original lead singer Steve Hill resigned. To replace him, the group recruited occasional singer, surfer and carpenter Graeme Strachan. The replacement of Hill by Strachan was a pivotal moment for the band, as Strachan had remarkable vocal skills, magnetic stage and screen presence. Alongside Macainsh's acerbic lyrics, another vital facet of the group's sound was the twin-guitar attack of Red Symons and Bob "Bongo" Starkie (younger brother of original guitarist Peter Starkie). Bob Spencer (born 1957) played guitar in the 1970s Australian rock band Skyhooks and later the 1980s Australian rock band The Angels. ... Image File history File linksMetadata No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File linksMetadata No higher resolution available. ... Living in the Seventies was the debut album released by Skyhooks in 1974 on the Mushroom Records label. ... Strachan onstage with Skyhooks, 1978 Graeme Shirley Strachan (2 January 1952 - 29 August 2001) was the lead singer of Australian 1970s rock group Skyhooks. ... Red Symons (born June 13, 1949 in Brighton, England) is an Australian musician, writer, and radio host, probably best known as lead guitarist with the Skyhooks and as the snide judge of Red Faces, a The Gong Show-esque segment of the long-running Hey Hey Its Saturday variety...

Adopting elements of glam rock in their presentation and with lyrics that presented frank depictions of the social life of young Australia in the 1970s, the band shocked conservative middle Australia with their outrageous (for the time) costumes, lyrics, and on-stage activities, with the result that seven of the ten tracks on their debut album were banned by Australian commercial radio. Much of the group's success derived from its distinctive repertoire, most of which was penned by bassist Greg Macainsh. Glam rock (also known as glitter rock), is a style of rock music, which initially surfaced in the post-hippie early 1970s. ... Look up lyrics in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Commercial Radio Hong Kong is one of the two commercial radio broadcasting company in Hong Kong (the other being Metro Radio). ...

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 Macainsh's mordant humour.^{[citation needed]} New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ... A comedy is a dramatic performance of a light and amusing character, usually with a happy conclusion to its plot. ...

After initially only charting in Melbourne upon its release in September 1974, their first album, Living in the Seventies, went on to spent 16 weeks at the top of the Australian national charts from February to June 1975. It became the best selling Australian album ever up to that time with 240,000 copies sold in Australia. A single lifted from the album Living in the Seventies, "Horror Movie", made number one in the Australian singles chart for 2 weeks in March 1975. The follow-up album Ego is not a Dirty Word, came a close second at 180,000 copies, and 11 weeks at the top of the Australian album chart from July 1975. 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. An album or record album is a collection of related audio or music tracks distributed to the public. ... Living in the Seventies was the debut album released by Skyhooks in 1974 on the Mushroom Records label. ... Living in the Seventies was the debut album released by Skyhooks in 1974 on the Mushroom Records label. ... Horror Movie was the second single from the Skyhooks album Living in the Seventies and was their first number one single in Australia, making the top in March 1975 for 2 weeks. ... Ego is not a Dirty Word was the second album released by Australian band Skyhooks in mid-1975. ... For the Mushroom Records company from Canada, see Mushroom Records (Canada), for the company that used to be Mushrooms operations in the United Kingdom see A&E Records Mushroom Records was an Australian record company formed by Michael Gudinski and Ray Evans in 1972. ... In the music industry, a record label is a brand and a trademark associated with the marketing of music recordings and music videos. ...

Skyhooks' second album, Ego is not a Dirty Word

Both these LPs were produced by Ross Wilson, former lead singer of Daddy Cool, which had been the most successful Australian rock group of the early 1970s. Wilson championed the group, signing them to a publishing contract and convincing Mushroom Records boss Michael Gudinski to give them a recording contract. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Ego is not a Dirty Word was the second album released by Australian band Skyhooks in mid-1975. ... In the music industry, a record producer (or music producer) has many roles, among them controlling the recording sessions, coaching and guiding the musicians, organizing and scheduling production budget and resources, and supervising the recording, mixing and mastering processes. ... Ross Wilson (born November 18, 1947) is an Australian musician, singer, songwriter, guitarist and producer who is best known for fronting the groups Daddy Cool and Mondo Rock, and for his production of albums by the Australian band Skyhooks. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... For the Mushroom Records company from Canada, see Mushroom Records (Canada), for the company that used to be Mushrooms operations in the United Kingdom see A&E Records Mushroom Records was an Australian record company formed by Michael Gudinski and Ray Evans in 1972. ... Michael Solomon Gudinski AM (born August 22, 1950) is a Melbourne-based entrepreneur and businessman who is a leading figure in the Australian music industry, mostly known for forming the highly successful Australian record company Mushroom Records in 1972 through whom Gudinski signed several generations of Australian musicians and performers... A recording contract (commonly called a record deal) is a legal agreement between a record label and a recording artist (or group), where the artist makes a record (or series of records) for the label to sell and promote. ...

The success of Living in the Seventies was mainly due to the enormous support the band were given by the TV pop show Countdown, rather than support from radio — in fact, most of the tracks on the LP had been banned by commercial radio because of their sex and drug references. Despite the ban, and as a deliberate act of provocation to commercial radio, the ABC's newly established 24-hour rock music station Double Jay chose the album's fifth track, the provocatively titled "You Just Like Me Cos I'm Good In Bed" as the first track played on air on its first day of broadcasting on January 19, 1975. Living in the Seventies was the debut album released by Skyhooks in 1974 on the Mushroom Records label. ... TV redirects here. ... This article is about the genre of popular music. ... Countdown was a long-running popular weekly Australian music television show broadcast by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation from late 1974 until July 19 1987. ... The Australian Broadcasting Corporation or ABC is Australias national non-profit public broadcaster. ... Triple J (JJJ) is a nationally-networked, government-funded Australian radio station (a division of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation), mainly aimed at youth (defined as those between 12 and 25). ... is the 19th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1975 (MCMLXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Skyhooks went on to release Three more studio albums,' Straight in a Gay Gay World' in 1976,'Guilty Until Proven Insane' in 1978 containing the well known hits 'Women in Uniform' and 'Why Dontcha All Get *ucked' and 'Hot for the Orient' in 1980.

From 1975 to 1977 Skyhooks were (alongside Sherbet) the most commercially successful group in Australia, but over the next few years, Skyhooks rapidly faded from the public eye with the departure of key members, and in 1980 the band announced its break-up in controversial circumstances. The demands for the band to reform were successful in 1983, with a record sum of money being paid for each of the original members to play a series of concerts. Further reformations took place in 1984, and in 1990 the band finally recorded new material, Jukebox in Siberia, which shot to the top of the charts. Sherbet (a. ...

Also in 1990, 'The Latest and Greatest: 16 Greatest Hits' compilation was released. The tracks were taken from Skyhooks' first four studio albums along with two recent hits, 'Jukebox in Siberia' and 'Tall Timber'.

"Shirley" Strachan and Red Symons both went on to successful careers in Australian commercial television. Symons now works on ABC radio and writes humorous columns for the press. After the demise of Skyhooks, Starkie still plays locally, Strauks became the drummer in the later line-up of noted Melbourne rock band The Sports, and other acts such as The Bushwackers and the Old Skydaddys. Macainsh played with John Farnham, and in recent years has been a board member of both APRA and PPCA, and is currently completing a Law Degree. Strachan was killed in an air crash on August 29, 2001, when the helicopter he was learning to fly crashed into Mount Archer near Kilcoy, northwest of Brisbane. Strachan onstage with Skyhooks, 1978 Graeme Shirley Strachan (2 January 1952 - 29 August 2001) was the lead singer of Australian 1970s rock group Skyhooks. ... Red Symons (born June 13, 1949 in Brighton, England) is an Australian musician, writer, and radio host, probably best known as lead guitarist with the Skyhooks and as the snide judge of Red Faces, a The Gong Show-esque segment of the long-running Hey Hey Its Saturday variety... The Sports was a popular Australian rock group that performed and recorded between 1977 and 1981. ... John Peter Farnham (born July 1, 1949) is an English-born Australian pop singer. ... APRA could refer to the: American Popular Revolutionary Alliance, a Peruvian political party Australian Prudential Regulation Authority Australasian Performing Rights Association This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... is the 241st day of the year (242nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday (link displays the 2001 Gregorian calendar). ... For other uses, see Helicopter (disambiguation). ... Mount Archer is located in Central Queensland, Australia. ... Kilcoy is a small farming town (pop. ... For other uses, see Brisbane (disambiguation). ...

A memorial concert was held to pay tribute to Strachan at the Palais Theatre shortly thereafter. (On September 11 2001) Tributes were paid and the remaining members of the most popular Hooks line ups (Strauks, Macainsh, Starkie, Symons and Spencer) performed with guest vocalists Daryl Braithwaite and Ross Wilson. (It is the only time Red Symons and his replacement, Bob Spencer have performed together on stage.) Braithwaite performed All My Friends Are Getting Married with the band whilst Wilson sang the rare Skyhooks track Warm Wind In The City.

A night to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the release of the Living in the 70s album was held in 2004. It was a historic night with several different incarnations of the band performing. The only absences were Strachan, Hill and original guitarist Peter Inglis.

The Skyhooks and Hill then reformed in 2005 at the Annandale Hotel in Sydney for a one-off gig. Hill had been diagnosed with cancer and the original Skyhooks, Inglis, Starkie, Strauks and Macainsh joined with Hill to show their support. This article is about the metropolitan area in Australia. ... For the album by The Cure, see Concert (album). ... Cancer is a class of diseases or disorders characterized by uncontrolled division of cells and the ability of these to spread, either by direct growth into adjacent tissue through invasion, or by implantation into distant sites by metastasis (where cancer cells are transported through the bloodstream or lymphatic system). ...

The name "Skyhooks" comes from an imaginary device created in the book Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator used to hold the elevator up in mid-air. See skyhook. Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator is a childrens book by British author Roald Dahl. ... For other uses, see Elevator (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Skyhook (disambiguation). ...

Discography

Australian albums

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• Living in the Seventies (October, 1974)
• Ego is not a Dirty Word (July, 1975)
• Straight in a Gay Gay World (September, 1976)
• Guilty Until Proven Insane (April, 1978)
• Hot For The Orient (May, 1980)
• The Lost Album (1999)

Living in the Seventies was the debut album released by Skyhooks in 1974 on the Mushroom Records label. ... Year 1974 (MCMLXXIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar) of the 1974 Gregorian calendar. ... Ego is not a Dirty Word was the second album released by Australian band Skyhooks in mid-1975. ... Year 1975 (MCMLXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1976 Pick up sticks(MCMLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1978 (MCMLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link displays the 1978 Gregorian calendar). ... Year 1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link displays the 1980 Gregorian calendar). ... Events of 2008: (EMILY) Me Lesley and MIley are going to China! This article is about the year. ...

Live Albums

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• Live! Be In It (1978)
• Live In The 80's (1983)

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Compilations

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• The Skyhooks Tapes (1977)
• Best of Skyhooks (1979)
• Skyhooks Box Set (1983)
• The Latest And Greatest (1990)
• Skyhooks Roadcase (1996)
• The Collection (1999)

Also: 1977 (album) by Ash. ... Also: 1979 by Smashing Pumpkins. ... For the Jimi Hendrix song, see 1983. ... This article is about the year. ... Year 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display full 1996 Gregorian calendar). ... The Collection was a best-selling 1986 (see 1986 in music) compilation album by Christian pop star Amy Grant. ... Events of 2008: (EMILY) Me Lesley and MIley are going to China! This article is about the year. ...

Australian singles

(7" vinyl / CD single):

• "Living In The 70s" / "You're Like A Broken Gin Bottle Baby" (1974)
• "Horror Movie" / "Carlton (Lygon Street Limbo)" (1974)
• "Ego Is Not A Dirty Word" / "Every Chase A Steeple" (1975)
• "All My Friends Are Getting Married" / "Saturday Night" (1975)
• "Million Dollar Riff" / "Forging Ahead" (1975)
• "Let It Rock (live)" / "Revolution (live)" / "Saturday Night" (live) (1975)
• "This Is My City" / "Somewhere In Sydney" (1976)
• "Blue Jeans" / "Mumbo Jumbo" (1976)
• "Party To End All Parties" / "Hot Rod James" (1977)
• "Women In Uniform" / "Don't Take Your Lurex To The Laundromat" / "Do The Hook" (1978)
• "Meglomania" / "BBBBBBBBBBBBBBoogie" (1978)
• "Over The Border" / "Wrong Number But The Right Girl" (1979)
• "This Town is Boring" / "Is This Too Much (Or What?)" (1980)
• "Keep The Junk In America" / "Rolls Royce in the Swimming Pool". (1980)
• "Hooked On Hooks" / "Smut" (1982)
• "Jukebox In Siberia" / "Jukebox In Siberia (karaoke mix)" (1990)
• "Tall Timber" / "Tall Timber (instrumental)" (1990)
• "Happy Hippy Hut" / "Good in Bed ( remix)" / "The Ballad Of Oz"* / "$64000 Question"*(*Daddy Cool) (1994)
• "Women In Uniform" / "Tiger Snake Kiss" / "Women In Uniform" (U.S. dance mix) (1998)

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Books

• Million Dollar Riff - Jenny Brown (1975)
• Ego Is Not A Dirty Word - Jeff Jenkins (1994)

External links

• Official web site