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Skyhooks (band)

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{{Short description|Australian rock band}}
{{About|the Australian rock group|other uses of the term|Skyhook (disambiguation){{!}}Skyhook}}
{{Use Australian English|date=December 2012}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2020}}
{{Infobox musical artist
| name = Skyhooks
|image = {{Multiple image|align=center|width=100|image1=Red Symons.jpg|image2=Rose Tattoo - Werner Rennen 2018 28.jpg}}
|image_size =
|caption = Former Skyhooks guitarists [[Red Symons]] (left, pictured in 2011) and [[Bob Spencer]] (right, pictured in 2018)
| background = group_or_band
| origin = [[Melbourne]], Victoria, Australia
| genre = [[Glam rock]], [[Rock music|rock]], [[pop rock]]
| years_active = 1973–1980, 1983, 1984, 1990, 1994
| label = {{hlist|[[Mushroom Records|Mushroom]]|Interfusion|[[Phonogram Records|Phonogram]]|[[Mercury Records|Mercury]]|Attic|United Artists|[[Festival Mushroom Records|Festival]]}}
| website = [http://www.skyhooks-music.com/ skyhooks-music.com]
| past_members = [[Greg Macainsh]] Imants "Freddie" Strauks Steve Hill Peter Inglis [[Peter Starkie]] Bob Starkie [[Red Symons]] [[Graeme Strachan|Graeme "Shirley" Strachan]] [[Bob Spencer]] Tony Williams
}}

'''Skyhooks''' were an Australian [[Rock music|rock]] band formed in [[Melbourne]] in 1973. Their classic lineup (1974–1977) comprised [[Graeme Strachan|Graeme "Shirley" Strachan]] (vocals), [[Greg Macainsh]] (bass and backing vocals), [[Red Symons]] (guitar, vocals, keyboards), Bob "Bongo" Starkie (guitar and backing vocals), and Imants "Freddie" Strauks (drums).

Known for their flamboyant costumes and makeup,<ref name="MABio">{{cite web|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.cs-ma-ANL%3AMA~1245730798294|title=Skyhooks (Musical Group)|work=Music Australia|publisher=[[National Library of Australia]]|date=23 June 2009|access-date=25 November 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110604103905/http://nla.gov.au/nla.cs-ma-ANL%3AMA~1245730798294|archive-date=4 June 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref> their music addressed a variety of issues including drugs, sex, and the gay scene while frequently referencing Australian places and culture. Evolving from a series of groups with Macainsh and Strauks in the late 1960s and early 1970s, they rose to national prominence when their debut album ''[[Living in the 70's]]'' (1974), which was initially a moderate success upon release, gained unprecedented popularity the following year, aided by the nascent [[ABC TV (Australian TV channel)|ABC]] music show [[Countdown (Australian TV program)|''Countdown'']]; the album topped the Australian Kent Music Report chart for a record-breaking 16 weeks and sold over 200,000 copies, becoming the best-selling Australian album at the time. Their second album ''[[Ego Is Not a Dirty Word]]'' (1975) topped the Kent Music Report for 11 weeks.

Symons and Strachan left in 1977 and 1978 respectively and became media personalities; Symons was replaced with [[Bob Spencer]] and Strachan was replaced with Tony Williams, before they disbanded in 1980. The classic lineup reunited four times in the ensuing years, with reunions in 1990 and 1994 producing new material, including the number-one song "[[Jukebox in Siberia]]" in 1990. Strachan died in a helicopter crash in 2001; original lead singer Steve Hill, who left and was replaced by Strachan, died in 2005, and original guitarist [[Peter Starkie]] died in 2020.

Music historian [[Ian McFarlane]] stated that the band "made an enormous impact on Australian social life".<ref name="McF">{{cite encyclopedia |year=1999 |title=Encyclopedia entry for 'Skyhooks' |encyclopedia=[[Encyclopedia of Australian Rock and Pop]] |publisher=[[Allen & Unwin]] |location=St Leonards, NSW |url=http://www.whammo.com.au/encyclopedia.asp?articleid=375 |access-date=22 November 2009 |last=McFarlane |first=Ian |author-link=Ian McFarlane |isbn=1-86508-072-1 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040419072143/http://www.whammo.com.au/encyclopedia.asp?articleid=375 |archive-date=19 April 2004 |url-status=unfit}}</ref> In 1992, the group was inducted into the [[Australian Recording Industry Association]] (ARIA) [[ARIA Hall of Fame|Hall of Fame]]. In 2011, the Skyhooks album ''[[Living in the 70's]]'' was added to the [[National Film and Sound Archive]] of Australia's [[Sounds of Australia]] registry.<ref>National Film and Sound Archive: 'Living in the 70s' on the [http://nfsa.gov.au/collection/sound/sounds-australia/ Sounds of Australia registry]</ref>

==History==
===1966–1974: Early years and formation===
[[Greg Macainsh]] and Imants "Freddie" Strauks both attended [[Norwood Secondary College|Norwood High School]] in the [[Melbourne]] suburb of [[Ringwood, Victoria|Ringwood]] and formed Spare Parts in 1966 with Macainsh on bass guitar and Strauks on lead vocals.<ref name="ARDb">{{cite web |last1=Holmgren |first1=Magnus |last2=Notling |first2=Fredrik |last3=Brown |first3=Jenny |title=Skyhooks |url=http://hem2.passagen.se/honga/database/s/skyhooks.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040319145753/http://hem2.passagen.se/honga/database/s/skyhooks.html |archive-date=19 March 2004 |access-date=11 April 2024 |publisher=[[Australian Rock Database]]. Passagen.se (Magnus Holmgren)}}</ref><ref name="Jeff">{{cite book |last=Jenkins |first=Jeff |url=http://nla.gov.au/anbd.bib-an41896781 |title=Molly Meldrum presents 50 years of rock in Australia |author2=Ian Meldrum |author2-link=Ian Meldrum |publisher=Wilkinson Publishing |year=2007 |isbn=978-1-921332-11-1 |location=[[Melbourne, Victoria|Melbourne, Vic]] |pages=84, 89, 90, 104–128, 145, 266–267 |access-date=22 November 2009}}</ref><ref name="SpencerSpare">Spencer et al, (2007) [http://www.whiteroom.com.au/howlspace/whoswho/PHPTracks.php?Band_ID=198810 Spare Parts]{{dead link|date=December 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} entry.</ref> Spare Parts was followed by Sound Pump in 1968,<ref name="SpencerSound">Spencer et al, (2007) [http://www.whiteroom.com.au/howlspace/whoswho/PHPTracks.php?Band_ID=197870 Sound Pump]{{dead link|date=December 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} entry.</ref> Macainsh formed Reuben Tice in [[Eltham, Victoria|Eltham]], with Tony Williams on vocals.<ref name="ARDb"/><ref name="SpencerReuben">Spencer et al, (2007) [http://www.whiteroom.com.au/howlspace/whoswho/PHPTracks.php?Band_ID=174920 Reuben Tice]{{dead link|date=December 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} entry.</ref> By 1970 Macainsh was back with Strauks, now on drums, first in Claptrap<ref name="SpencerClaptrap">Spencer et al, (2007) [http://www.whiteroom.com.au/howlspace/whoswho/PHPTracks.php?Band_ID=40585 Claptrap]{{dead link|date=December 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} entry.</ref> and by 1971 in Frame which had [[Graeme Strachan|Graeme "Shirley" Strachan]] as lead vocalist.<ref name="ARDb"/><ref name="Jeff"/><ref name="SpencerFrame">Spencer et al, (2007) [http://www.whiteroom.com.au/howlspace/whoswho/PHPTracks.php?Band_ID=78015 Frame]{{dead link|date=December 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} entry.</ref> Frame also included Pat O'Brien on guitar and Cynthio Ooms on guitar.<ref name="SpencerFrame"/> Strachan had befriended Strauks earlier—he sang with Strauks on the way to parties—and was asked to join Claptrap which was renamed as Frame.<ref name="JenB">{{cite web|url=http://www.milesago.com/Obits/shirl.htm|title=We just liked him 'cos he was Shirl|last=Brown|first=Jen Jewel|work=MILESAGO: Australasian Music and Popular Culture 1964–1975|editor=Duncan Kimball|publisher=ICE Productions|date=31 August 2001|access-date=24 November 2009}}</ref> Strachan stayed in Frame for about 18 months but left for a career in [[carpenter|carpentry]] and a hobby of [[surfing]] in [[Phillip Island (Victoria)|Phillip Island]].<ref name="JenB"/>

Skyhooks formed in March 1973 in Melbourne with Steve Hill on vocals (ex-Lillee), Peter Inglis<ref name="APRA Does">{{cite web | publisher = [[APRA AMCOS]] (Australasian Performing Right Association, Australasian Mechanical Copyright Owners Society) | title = 'Does Work' at APRA search engine | url = http://apraamcos.com.au/search?searchtype=works&keywords=does+work | access-date = 17 September 2020 }} Note: For additional work user may have to select 'Search again' and then 'Enter a title:' &/or 'Performer:'</ref> on guitar ([[The Captain Matchbox Whoopee Band]]), Macainsh on bass guitar and backing vocals, [[Peter Starkie]] on guitar and backing vocals (Lipp & the Double Dekker Brothers) and Strauks on drums and backing vocals.<ref name="McF"/><ref name="ARDb"/> The name, Skyhooks, came from a fictional organisation in the 1956 film ''[[Earth vs. the Flying Saucers]]''. Their first gig was on 16 April 1973 at [[St Jude's Church, Carlton|St Jude's Church]] hall in [[Carlton, Victoria|Carlton]].<ref name="Jeff"/> At a later gig, former [[Daddy Cool (band)|Daddy Cool]] frontman, [[Ross Wilson (musician)|Ross Wilson]] was playing in his group [[Mighty Kong (band)|Mighty Kong]] with Skyhooks as a support act. Wilson was impressed with the fledgling band and signed Macainsh to a publishing deal.<ref name="McF"/> In August, Bob "Bongo" Starkie (Mary Jane Union) on guitar replaced his older brother Peter (later in [[Jo Jo Zep & The Falcons]]) and Inglis was replaced by Red Symons on guitar, vocals and keyboards.<ref name="McF"/><ref name="ARDb"/> The two new members added a touch of theatre and humour to the band's visual presence.<ref name="McF"/> By late 1973, Wilson had convinced [[Michael Gudinski]] to sign the band to his booking agency, Australian Entertainment Exchange, and eventually to Gudinski's label, [[Mushroom Records]].<ref name="McF"/><ref name="Jeff"/>

Skyhooks gained a cult following around Melbourne including university [[intelligentsia]] and [[Pub rock (Australia)|pub rockers]],<ref name="Jeff"/> but a poorly received show at the January 1974 [[Sunbury Pop Festival]] saw the group booed off stage.<ref name="McF"/><ref name="Jeff"/> Two tracks from their live set, "Hey What's the Matter?" and "Love on the Radio" appeared on Mushroom's ''Highlights of Sunbury '74''.<ref name="McF"/> After seeing his performance on TV, Hill phoned Macainsh and resigned.<ref name="Jeff"/> To replace Hill, in March, Macainsh recruited occasional singer, surfer and carpenter Strachan from his Frame era.<ref name="McF"/><ref name="Jeff"/><ref name="JenB"/> Strachan had been dubbed "Shirley" by fellow surfers due to his curly blond hair ''a la'' [[Shirley Temple]].<ref name="JenB"/>

===1974–1975: ''Living in the 70's''===
{{Main|Living in the 70's}}

For Skyhooks, the replacement of Hill by Strachan was a pivotal moment, as Strachan had remarkable vocal skills, and a magnetic stage and screen presence.<ref name="McF"/><ref name="Jeff"/> Alongside Macainsh's lyrics, another facet of the group was the twin-guitar sound of Starkie and Symons.<ref name="McF"/><ref name="Jeff"/> Adopting elements of [[glam rock]] in their presentation, and 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]], make-up, lyrics, and on-stage activities.<ref name="McF"/> A 1.2-metre (4 ft) high mushroom-shaped [[phallus]] was confiscated by [[Adelaide, South Australia|Adelaide]] police after a performance.<ref name="Jeff"/><ref name="Jenkins">Jenkins (1994).</ref> Six of the ten tracks on their debut album, ''[[Living in the 70's]]'', were banned by the [[Federation of Australian Commercial Broadcasters]] for their sex and drug references:<ref name="McF"/> "Toorak Cowboy", "Whatever Happened to the Revolution?", "You Just Like Me Cos I'm Good in Bed", "Hey What's the Matter", "Motorcycle Bitch" and "Smut".<ref name="Jeff"/> Much of the group's success derived from its distinctive repertoire, mostly penned by bass guitarist Macainsh,<ref name="McF"/><ref name="Jeff"/> with an occasional additional song from Symons—who wrote "Smut" and performed its lead vocals.<ref name="McF"/><ref name="Jeff"/><ref name="APRA Smut">{{cite web|publisher=[[Australasian Performing Right Association]] (APRA)|title="Smut" at APRA search engine|url=http://www.apra-amcos.com.au/worksearch.axd?q=Smut|access-date=26 November 2009}}{{Dead link|date=December 2021 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> Although Skyhooks were not the first Australian rock band to write songs in a local setting—rather than ditties about love or songs about New York City or other foreign lands—they were the first to become commercially successful doing so.<ref name="McF"/><ref name="Jeff"/> Skyhooks songs addressed teenage issues including buying drugs ("Carlton (Lygon Street Limbo)"), suburban sex ("Balwyn Calling"), the gay scene ("Toorak Cowboy") and loss of girlfriends ("Somewhere in Sydney") by [[Name-dropping|namechecking]] Australian locales.<ref name="McF"/><ref name="Jeff"/> Radio personality, Billy Pinnell described the importance of their lyrics in tackling Australia's [[cultural cringe]]:

{{blockquote|[Macainsh] broke down all the barriers [...] opening the door for Australian rock 'n' roll songwriters to write about local places and events. He legitimised Australian songwriting and it meant that Australians became themselves.<ref name="Jeff"/>|Billy Pinnell, quoted in ''Molly Meldrum presents 50 years of rock in Australia'' p. 104}}

The first Skyhooks single, "[[Living in the 70's (song)|Living in the 70's]]", was released in August 1974,<ref name="SpencerSkyhooks">Spencer et al, (2007) [http://www.whiteroom.com.au/howlspace/whoswho/PHPTracks.php?Band_ID=193800 Skyhooks] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141108075055/http://www.whiteroom.com.au/howlspace/whoswho/PHPTracks.php?Band_ID=193800 |date=8 November 2014 }} entry.</ref> ahead of the album, and peaked at No. 28 on the Australian [[Kent Music Report]] Singles Charts.<ref name="Kent">{{cite book |last=Kent |first=David |author-link=David Kent (historian) |title=[[Kent Music Report|Australian Chart Book 1970–1992]] |publisher=Australian Chart Book Ltd |year=1993 |isbn=0-646-11917-6 |location=[[St Ives, New South Wales|St Ives, NSW]]}} NOTE: Used for Australian Singles and Albums charting from 1974 until [[Australian Recording Industry Association|ARIA]] created their own [[ARIA Charts|charts]] in mid-1988. In 1992, Kent back calculated chart positions for 1970–1974.</ref> The album, ''Living in the 70's'' initially charted only in Melbourne upon its release on 7 October 1974. It went on to spend 16 weeks at the top of the Australian Kent Music Report Albums Charts from February to June 1975.<ref name="Kent"/> The album was produced by Wilson,<ref name="ARDb"/> and became the best selling Australian album, to that time,<ref name="McF"/> with 226,000 copies sold in Australia.<ref name="Eliezer">{{cite book|url=http://www.immedia.com.au/HighVoltage/sample.php|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071112134315/http://www.immedia.com.au/HighVoltage/sample.php|url-status=dead|archive-date=12 November 2007|title=High Voltage Rock 'n' Roll: The Movers and Shakers in the Australian Music Industry|last=Eliezer|first=Christie|year=2007|chapter-url=http://www.immedia.com.au/HighVoltage/sample.php#gudinski|chapter=Michael Gudinski: He Should Be So Lucky|publisher=Omnibus Press|location=[[Sydney]]|isbn=978-1-921029-26-4|access-date=24 November 2009}}</ref>

Skyhooks returned to the Sunbury Pop Festival in January 1975. They were declared the best performers by ''[[Rolling Stone Australia]]'' and ''[[The Age]]'' reviewers, and Gudinski now took over their [[band manager|management]].<ref name="Sunbury75">{{cite web|url=http://www.milesago.com/Festivals/sunbury75.htm|title=Festivals – Sunbury Festival 1975|work=MILESAGO: Australasian Music and Popular Culture 1964–1975|editor=Duncan Kimball|publisher=ICE Productions|year=2002|access-date=24 November 2009}}</ref> The second single, "[[Horror Movie (song)|Horror Movie]]", reached No. 1 for two weeks in March.<ref name="Kent"/><ref name="SpencerSkyhooks"/> The band's success was credited by Gudinski with saving his struggling Mushroom Records and enabled it to develop into the most successful Australian label of its time.<ref name="Jeff"/><ref name="JenB"/><ref name="Eliezer"/>

The success of the album was also due to support by a new pop music television show ''[[Countdown (Australian TV series)|Countdown]]'' on national public broadcaster [[ABC Television (Australian TV network)|ABC Television]], rather than promotion by commercial radio.<ref name="Jeff"/> "Horror Movie" was the first song played on the first colour transmission of ''Countdown'' in early 1975.<ref name="Jeff"/> Despite the radio ban, the [[Australian Broadcasting Corporation|ABC]]'s newly established 24-hour rock music station [[Triple J|Double Jay]] chose the album's fifth track, the provocatively titled "You Just Like Me Cos I'm Good in Bed", as its first ever broadcast on 19 January.

===1975–1976: ''Ego Is Not a Dirty Word''===
{{Main|Ego Is Not a Dirty Word}}

Skyhooks' 1975 national tour promoting ''Living in the 70's'' finished at Melbourne's [[Festival Hall, Melbourne|Festival Hall]] with their [[ANZAC Day]] (25 April) performance.<ref name="Jeff"/> They were supported by comedy singer [[Bob Hudson (Australian singer)|Bob Hudson]], heavy rockers [[AC/DC]] and New Zealand band [[Split Enz]].<ref name="Jenkins" /> Strachan then took two weeks off and considered leaving the band, but he returned – newly married – and they continued recording the follow-up album, ''[[Ego Is Not a Dirty Word]]''.<ref name="Jeff"/><ref name="JenB"/> Initially, they were locked out of the recording studio until their manager, Gudinski, sent down the money still owed for recording the first album.<ref name="Eliezer"/> ''Ego Is Not a Dirty Word'' spent 11 weeks at the top of the Australian album chart from 21 July 1975,<ref name="Kent"/> and sold 210,000 copies.<ref name="Eliezer"/> with the single, "[[Ego is Not a Dirty Word (song)|Ego Is Not a Dirty Word]]" issued in April ahead of the album,<ref name="SpencerSkyhooks"/> peaking at No. 2.<ref name="Kent"/> The next single, "[[All My Friends Are Getting Married]]" reached No. 2 in July,<ref name="Kent"/><ref name="SpencerSkyhooks"/> and was followed by "[[Million Dollar Riff]]" at No. 6 in October.<ref name="Kent"/><ref name="SpencerSkyhooks"/> Macainsh's then girlfriend, Jenny Brown,<ref name="Jeff"/> described the band in her 1975 book, ''Skyhooks : Million Dollar Riff''.<ref name="Brown">{{cite book|title=Skyhooks : Million Dollar Riff|last=Brown|first=Jennifer Lois|year=1975|publisher=Dingo|location=[[Collingwood, Victoria|Collingwood, Vic]]|isbn=0-909109-01-X}} Note: Brown was later known as Jenny Hunter Brown and then as Jen Jewel Brown.</ref> A live version of [[Chuck Berry]]'s "[[Let It Rock (Chuck Berry song)|Let It Rock]]" from a December performance was released as a single in March 1976 and reached No. 26.<ref name="McF"/><ref name="Kent"/>

With Australian commercial success achieved, Skyhooks turned to the US market. Gudinski announced a $1.5 million deal with [[Mercury Records]]/[[Phonogram Records]],<ref name="McF"/> which released a modified international version of ''Ego Is Not a Dirty Word'' with "Horror Movie" and "You Just Like Me Cos I'm Good in Bed" from their first Australian album replacing two tracks.<ref name="McF"/><ref name="ARDb"/><ref name="Jeff"/> A US tour followed in March–April 1976, but critics described them as imitators of [[Kiss (band)|Kiss]] due to the similarity of Symons' make-up and stage act to that of [[Gene Simmons]],<ref name="Howl">{{cite web |last=Nimmervoll |first=Ed |author2=Greg Macainsh |title=Skyhooks |url=http://www.whiteroom.com.au/howlspace/en/skyhooks/skyhooks.htm |archive-url=https://webarchive.nla.gov.au/awa/20120726191200/http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/14231/20120727-0512/www.howlspace.com.au/en/skyhooks/skyhooks.htm |archive-date=26 July 2012 |access-date=22 January 2014 |publisher=Howlspace – The Living History of Our Music. White Room Electronic Publishing Pty Ltd (Ed Nimmervoll)}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> and despite limited success in [[Boston]], Massachusetts and [[Jacksonville, Florida]] they failed to make inroads into the general US market.<ref name="McF"/>

===1977–1981: Later years to break-up===
{{Main|Greg Macainsh|Red Symons|Graeme Strachan|Bob Spencer}}
After completing their 1976 US tour, the band remained in San Francisco and recorded their third album with Wilson producing, ''[[Straight in a Gay Gay World]]'', which was released in August 1976 and peaked at No. 3 on the Australian album charts.<ref name="McF"/><ref name="Kent"/><ref name="SpencerSkyhooks"/> In July, upon return to Australia they launched The Brats Are Back Tour with a single, "[[This Is My City]]",<ref name="SpencerSkyhooks"/> which peaked at number 32.<ref name="Kent"/> "[[Blue Jeans (Skyhooks song)|Blue Jeans]]" followed in August and peaked at No. 12 on the singles chart.<ref name="McF"/><ref name="Kent"/><ref name="SpencerSkyhooks"/> By October, Strachan provided his debut solo single, "[[Every Little Bit Hurts]]" (a [[cover version|cover]] of [[Brenda Holloway]]'s 1964 hit). In February 1977, Symons left the band and was replaced on guitar by [[Bob Spencer]] from the band [[Finch (Australian band)|Finch]].<ref name="McF"/><ref name="ARDb"/> With Symons' departure the band dropped the glam rock look and used a more straight forward [[hard rock]] approach.<ref name="McF"/><ref name="Howl"/>

During 1977 Skyhooks toured nationally three times, while their first single with Spencer, "[[Party to End All Parties]]", entered the top 30 in May.<ref name="McF"/><ref name="Kent"/><ref name="SpencerSkyhooks"/> Strachan released his second solo single, a cover of [[Smokey Robinson]]'s "[[Tracks of My Tears]]", which reached the top 20 in July.<ref name="McF"/><ref name="Kent"/> Meanwhile, Mushroom released a [[compilation album|singles anthology]], ''[[The Skyhooks Tapes]]'', which entered the top 50 in September.<ref name="McF"/><ref name="Kent"/><ref name="SpencerSkyhooks"/> The band's mass popularity had declined although they still kept their live performances exciting and irreverent.<ref name="McF"/><ref name="Howl"/>

In January 1978 they toured New Zealand and performed at the [[Nambassa]] festival. In February their next single, "[[Women in Uniform]]",<ref name="SpencerSkyhooks"/> was issued and peaked at No. 8, while its album ''[[Guilty Until Proven Insane]]'' followed in March and reached No. 7.<ref name="McF"/><ref name="Kent"/><ref name="SpencerSkyhooks"/> The album was produced by Americans Eddie Leonetti and [[Jack Douglas (record producer)|Jack Douglas]].<ref name="ARDb"/> The second single from the album, "Megalomania" released in May,<ref name="SpencerSkyhooks"/> peaked at number 93.<ref name="Kent"/> Strachan told band members he intended to leave—but it was not officially announced for six months—he continued regular shows until his final gig with Skyhooks on 29 July 1978.<ref name="Howl"/> Strachan released further solo singles, "Mr Summer" in October and "Nothing but the Best" in January 1979,<ref name="McF"/> but neither charted in the top 50.<ref name="Kent"/> Strachan's replacement in Skyhooks, on lead vocals, was Tony Williams (ex-Reuben Tice with Macainsh).<ref name="McF"/><ref name="ARDb"/><ref name="Jeff"/><ref name="SpencerSkyhooks"/>

Williams' first single for Skyhooks, "Over the Border", a political song about the state of the [[Queensland Police Force]] at the time, reached the top 40 in April 1979,<ref name="Kent"/><ref name="SpencerSkyhooks"/> and their fifth studio album, ''[[Hot for the Orient]]'', was released in May 1980,<ref name="SpencerSkyhooks"/> but failed to enter the top 50.<ref name="Kent"/>

From 1975 to 1977, Skyhooks were—alongside [[Sherbet (band)|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. [[Ian Meldrum|Ian "Molly" Meldrum]], usually a supporter of Skyhooks, savaged ''Hot for the Orient'' on his "Humdrum" segment of ''Countdown''—viewers demanded that the band appear on a following show to defend it.<ref name="Jeff"/> Poor reception of the album both by the public and reviewers led the band to take out a page-sized ad in the local music press declaring "Why Don't You All Get Fu**ed" (title of one of their songs) and they played their last performance on 8 June, not in their hometown of Melbourne, but in the mining town of [[Kalgoorlie]] in [[Western Australia]].<ref name="McF"/><ref name="Howl"/>

===1982–1999: Reformations and later releases===
In December 1982, Mushroom released a medley of Skyhooks songs as "[[Hooked on Hooks]]" which peaked at No. 21.<ref name="Kent"/> Demands for the "classic" line-up of the band—Macainsh, Bob Starkie, Strachan, Strauks and Symons—to reform were successful and on 23 April 1983, they started the Living in the 80's Tour.<ref name="McF"/><ref name="Howl"/> Support acts for the first concert included [[The Church (band)|The Church]], [[Mental as Anything]], The Party Boys, [[The Sunnyboys]], and [[Midnight Oil]]—who acknowledged, "Hooks were the only Australian band they would let top the bill above them".<ref name="McF"/><ref name="RageBio">{{cite web|url=http://www.abc.net.au/rage/guest/2001/skyhooks.htm|title=Skyhooks special – Skyhooks bio|publisher=Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC)|date=6 October 2001|access-date=26 November 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110320041812/http://www.abc.net.au/rage/guest/2001/skyhooks.htm|archive-date=20 March 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref> This tour was released on LP as ''[[Live in the 80's]]''.

A one-off reunion concert took place in October 1984, and in 1990 the band finally recorded new material, including "[[Jukebox in Siberia]]", released in September,<ref name="SpencerSkyhooks"/> which peaked at the top of the [[ARIA Charts|ARIA Singles Charts]] for two weeks.<ref name="AusCharts">{{cite web |title=Discography Skyhooks |url=http://australian-charts.com/showinterpret.asp?interpret=Skyhooks |access-date=22 November 2009 |publisher=australian-charts.com}}</ref> In November, ''[[The Latest and Greatest]]'', a compilation album, was released, which peaked at No. 4 on the ARIA Albums Charts.<ref name="AusCharts"/> The tracks were taken from Skyhooks' first four studio albums along with two recent singles, "Jukebox In Siberia" and the uncharted "Tall Timber".<ref name="AusCharts"/><ref name="SpencerSkyhooks"/>

In 1992, Skyhooks were inducted into the [[Australian Recording Industry Association]] (ARIA) [[ARIA Hall of Fame|Hall of Fame]],<ref name="ARIAList">{{cite web |title=ARIA Awards 2009 : History: Winners by Artist : Skyhooks |url=http://www.ariaawards.com.au/history-by-artist.php?letter=S&artist=Skyhooks |access-date=26 November 2009 |publisher=[[Australian Recording Industry Association]] (ARIA)}}{{dead link|date=May 2018|bot=InternetArchiveBot|fix-attempted=yes}}</ref> while their manager, Gudunski, and record label, Mushroom Records, received a 'Special Achievement Award'.<ref name="ARIA1992">{{cite web |title=ARIA Awards 2009 : History: Winners by Year : 1992: 6th Annual ARIA Awards |url=http://www.ariaawards.com.au/history-by-year.php?year=1992 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070926235813/http://www.ariaawards.com.au/history-by-year.php?year=1992 |archive-date=26 September 2007 |access-date=26 November 2009 |publisher=Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA)}}</ref> Producer of their first three albums, Wilson, had been inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1989 as an individual and again as a member of Daddy Cool in 2006.<ref name="ARIAHoF">{{cite web|url=http://www.ariaawards.com.au/history-by-award.php?awardID=36|title=ARIA Awards 2009 : History: Winner by Award : Hall of Fame|publisher=Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA)|access-date=26 November 2009|archive-date=2 February 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090202052952/http://www.ariaawards.com.au/history-by-award.php?awardID=36|url-status=dead}}</ref>

The final release of new Skyhooks material came in June 1999 when a twin-CD, ''Skyhooks: The Collection'', was issued.<ref name="McF"/><ref name="Howl"/> Disc one contained a greatest hits package, very similar to "[[The Latest and Greatest]]", with additional tracks. Disc two is referred to by fans as "[[The Lost Album (Skyhooks album)|The Lost Album]]", with previously unreleased songs from their 1990 and 1994 recording sessions.

===After Skyhooks===
Strachan and Symons each went on to successful careers in Australian media including radio and television. Symons worked as a breakfast presenter on ABC radio and wrote humorous newspaper columns. Starkie played locally with different bands including Ol' Skydaddys,<ref name="ARDb"/> and [[Ram Band]]. Strauks was drummer for Melbourne rock band [[The Sports]], [[Jo Jo Zep & The Falcons]], folk band The Bushwackers and the Ol' Skydaddys.<ref name="ARDb"/> Macainsh played with [[John Farnham]] on his Whispering Jack Tour and with [[Dave Warner (musician)|Dave Warner's from the Suburbs]],<ref name="ARDb"/> in 1988 he put together and managed a successful [[AC/DC]] tribute band called Back in Black who went on to support Skyhooks on their comeback tour. He was a board member of [[Australasian Performing Right Association]] (APRA) (1997–2000) and Phonographic Performance Company of Australia (PPCA) (2001–2006),<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ppca.com.au/SPContent.aspx?PageID=105&ItemID=27|work=PPCA |title=PPCA Announces Board for 2005|publisher=Phonographic Performance Company of Australia (PPCA)|date=22 February 2005|access-date=26 November 2009}}{{dead link|date=May 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> and is an intellectual property lawyer.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/media/roadkill-on-digital-highway-how-music-is-fighting-back/story-e6frg996-1225793341486|title=Roadkill on digital highway: how music is fighting back|last=Bodey|first=Michael|work=[[The Australian]]|date=2 November 2009|access-date=26 November 2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.beatup.com.au/pdf/Greg%20Macainsh%20(ex-Skyhooks).pdf|last=Lang-Lemchert|first=Susan|year=2005|title=Quiet Achiever|publisher=Susan Lang-Lemchert|access-date=26 November 2009}}</ref>

Strachan was killed in an air crash on 29 August 2001, when the [[helicopter]] he was learning to fly solo crashed into [[Mount Archer, Queensland (Somerset Region)|Mount Archer]] near [[Kilcoy]], northwest of [[Brisbane]]. A memorial concert was held on 11 September 2001 at the Palais Theatre, tributes were paid and some remaining members—Strauks, Macainsh, Starkie, Symons and Spencer—performed with guest vocalists [[Daryl Braithwaite]] and Wilson. It is the only time Symons and his replacement, Spencer performed together on stage. Braithwaite performed "All My Friends Are Getting Married" with the band while Wilson sang the rare Skyhooks track "Warm Wind in the City".

The 30th anniversary of the release of the ''Living in the 70's'' album was commemorated in 2004, with different incarnations of the band performing. Absent were Strachan, Hill and Inglis. Vocals were performed by Wilson, Williams and Bob Starkie. The original line-up of Skyhooks, including Hill, reformed in 2005 at the Annandale Hotel in [[Sydney]] for a one-off [[concert|gig]], a benefit for Hill, who had been diagnosed with [[liver cancer]]. The line-up of Inglis, Peter Starkie, Strauks and Macainsh joined him onstage. Hill died six weeks later. In November 2009, the "Skyhooks Tour Archive", displayed on the band's website, listed 925 live shows.

Macainsh, Starkie and Strauks appeared as Skyhooks at the 2009 [[Helpmann Awards]] in Sydney. They performed "Women in Uniform" with Australian rock icon [[Jimmy Barnes]] providing vocals. Red Symons was also slated to perform with the band, but was replaced by Diesel after withdrawing a few days before the show.

On 7 April 2010, [[3AW]] reported that Skyhooks were to appear on the first episode of the new series of ''[[Hey Hey It's Saturday]]'' with [[Leo Sayer]] on vocals. Sayer later appeared on air and denied the claims.{{Citation needed|date=July 2011}}

Original guitarist Peter Starkie died of complications after a fall, in mid-September 2020, aged 72.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.noise11.com/news/original-skyhooks-guitarist-peter-starkie-has-died-aged-72-20200915|title=Original Skyhooks Guitarist Peter Starkie Has Died Aged 72|first=Paul|last=Cashmere|author-link=Paul Cashmere|date=15 September 2020|website=Noise11.com|access-date=16 September 2020}}</ref>

==Members==
;Classic lineup<ref name="ARDb"/><ref name="SpencerSkyhooks"/><ref>{{cite web|archive-url=https://webarchive.nla.gov.au/awa/20120726191200/http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/14231/20120727-0512/www.howlspace.com.au/en/skyhooks/skyhooks2.htm|url=http://www.whiteroom.com.au/howlspace/en/skyhooks/skyhooks2.htm|title=Skyhooks 2|last=Nimmervoll|first=Ed|publisher=Howlspace – The Living History of Our Music. White Room Electronic Publishing Pty Ltd (Ed Nimmervoll)|archive-date=26 July 2012|access-date=22 January 2014}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref>
*[[Greg Macainsh]] – bass, backing vocals (1973–1980, 1983, 1984, 1990, 1994)
*Imants "Freddie" Strauks (aka "Freddie Kaboodleschnitzer") – drums, backing vocals, percussion (1973–1980, 1983, 1984, 1990, 1994)
*Bob Starkie (aka "Bongo Starr") – guitar, backing and lead vocals (1973–1980, 1983, 1984, 1990, 1994)
*[[Red Symons]] – guitar, backing and lead vocals, keyboards (1973–1977, 1983, 1984, 1990, 1994)
*[[Graeme Strachan|Graeme "Shirley" Strachan]] – lead vocals (1974–1978, 1983, 1984, 1990, 1994; died 2001)

;Other members<ref name="ARDb"/><ref name="SpencerSkyhooks"/>
*Steve Hill – lead vocals (1973–1974; died 2005)
*Peter Inglis – guitar (1973)
*[[Peter Starkie]] – guitar, backing vocals (1973; died 2020)
*[[Bob Spencer]] – guitar, backing vocals (1977–1980)
*Tony Williams – lead vocals (1978–1980)

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==Discography==
===Studio albums===
{| class="wikitable"
! rowspan="2" width="33"|Year
! rowspan="2" width="240"|Title
! colspan="1"|Peak chart positions
! rowspan="2"|[[Music recording sales certification|Certifications]]/Sales ([[List of music recording sales certifications|sales thresholds]])
|-
!style="width:4em"| AUS [[Kent Music Report|KMR]] <ref name="Kent"/>
|-
|align="center"|1974
|'''''[[Living in the 70's]]'''''
*Label: Mushroom Records (T35299)
| align="center"| 1
|
* AUS: 4× Platinum<ref name="A QUICK 'HOOK HISTORY">{{cite web|url=http://www.skyhooks-music.com/history.html|title=A QUICK 'HOOK HISTORY|publisher= skyhooks-music.com|access-date=17 November 2015}}</ref> (200,000+)<ref name="Billboard">{{cite magazine|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-Billboard/80s/1983/BB-1983-05-28.pdf|title=Australia - Explosive Talent Gains Temper Year of playing Dangerously
|magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]|first=Glen A.|last=Baker|via=World Radio History|page=A-3|date=28 May 1983|access-date=10 November 2021}}</ref>
|-
|align="center"|1975
|'''''[[Ego Is Not a Dirty Word]]'''''
*Label: Mushroom Records (T35575)
| align="center"| 1
|
* AUS: 250,000<ref name="A QUICK 'HOOK HISTORY"/><ref name="Billboard"/>
|-
|align="center"|1976
|'''''[[Straight in a Gay Gay World]]'''''
*Label: Mushroom Records (T35982)
| align="center"| 1
|
* AUS: Platinum<ref name="A QUICK 'HOOK HISTORY"/> (100,000)
|-
|align="center"|1978
|'''''[[Guilty Until Proven Insane]]'''''
*Label: Mushroom Records
| align="center"| 1
|
|-
|align="center"|1980
|'''''[[Hot for the Orient]]'''''
*Label: Mushroom Records
| align="center"| 64
|
{| style="background:#F9F9F9" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"
|-
|width=33px style="border:0px;"|
|style="border:0px;"|
|}
|-
|align="center" colspan="4" style="font-size: 8pt"| "—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that country.
|-
|}

===Compilation albums===
{| class="wikitable"
! rowspan="2" width="33"|Year
! rowspan="2" width="240"|Title
! colspan="1"|Peak chart positions
! rowspan="2"|[[Music recording sales certification|Certifications]]/Sales ([[List of music recording sales certifications|sales thresholds]])
|-
!style="width:4em"| AUS [[Kent Music Report|KMR]] <ref name="Kent"/> [[Australian Recording Industry Association|ARIA]]<ref name="AusCharts"/>
|-
|align="center"|1977
|'''''[[The Skyhooks Tapes]]'''''
*Label: Mushroom Records (L36288)
| align="center"| 49
|
|-
|align="center"|1979
|'''''[[The Best of Skyhooks]]'''''
*Label: Mushroom Records (L37094)
| align="center"| 9
|
|-
|align="center"|1990
|'''''[[The Latest and Greatest]]'''''
*Label: Mushroom Records (93339)
| align="center"| 4
|
* AUS: Platinum<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.aria.com.au/charts/1990/albums-chart|title=ARIA End of Year Charts 1990|publisher=ARIA|access-date=7 July 2017}}</ref> (70,000)
|-
|align="center"|1994
|'''''[[Singles and B sides]]'''''
*Label: Mushroom Records (D80984)
| align="center"| –
|
|-
|align="center"|1999
|'''''[[The Lost Album (Skyhooks album)|The Lost Album]]'''''
*Label: Mushroom Records (MUSH33153.2)
| align="center"| 36
|
|-
|align="center"|2015
|'''''[[Hits'n'Riffs]]'''''
*Label: [[Festival Records]] / [[Warner Music Australia]] (FEST601043)
| align="center"| 32
|
|-
|align="center" colspan="4" style="font-size: 8pt"| "—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that country.
|-
|}

===Video albums===
{| class="wikitable"
! rowspan="2" width="33"|Year
! rowspan="2" width="240"|Title
! colspan="1"|Peak chart positions
! rowspan="2"|[[Music recording sales certification|Certifications]]
|-
!style="width:4em"| [[Australian Recording Industry Association|AUS DVD]]<ref name="AusCharts"/>
|-
|align="center"|2002
|'''''Right There on Your DVD'''''
*Label: Mushroom Records (335818)
| align="center"| 25
|
* ARIA: Gold<ref name=ARIACert04>{{cite certification|region=Australia|artist=Skyhooks|type=video|certyear=2004|access-date=18 December 2021}}</ref>
|}

===Live albums===
{| class="wikitable"
! rowspan="2" width="33"|Year
! rowspan="2" width="240"|Title
! colspan="1"|Peak chart positions
|-
!style="width:4em"| AUS [[Kent Music Report|KMR]] <ref name="Kent"/>
|-
|align="center"|1978
|'''''[[Live! Be in It]]'''''
*Label: Mushroom Records
| align="center"| 84
|-
|align="center"|1983
|'''''[[Live in the 80's]]'''''
*Label: Mushroom Records
| align="center"| 19
|}

===Box sets===
{| class="wikitable"
! rowspan="2" width="33"|Year
! rowspan="2" width="240"|Title
! colspan="1"|Peak chart positions
|-
!style="width:4em"| AUS [[Australian Recording Industry Association|ARIA]]<ref name="AusCharts"/>
|-
|align="center"|1982
|'''''The Skyhooks Box'''''
* 9 record box set: Eight LPs and one 12" single ("Hooked on 'Hooks")
| align="center"| –
|-
|align="center"|1982
|'''''Bonus Album No. 1, Singles And B Sides'''''
* Compilation of non-album tracks
| align="center"| –
|-
|align="center"|1982
|'''''Bonus Album No. 2, Demos And Dialogue'''''
* Compilation of demo tracks
| align="center"| –
|-
|align="center"|1982
|'''''Skyhooks Roadcase'''''
* 6-CD box set with booklet included.
| align="center"| –
|-
|align="center"|2015
|'''''[[Don't You Believe What You've Seen or You've Heard]]'''''
* 3-disc set, celebrating 40 years of Skyhooks.
| align="center"| 40
|}

===Singles===
{{Singles discography | all_albums=yes | charts=3 | include_footnote = yes
| chartA = [[Kent Music Report|AUS]] KMR<ref name="Kent"/> [[Australian Recording Industry Association|ARIA]]<ref name="AusCharts"/>
| chartB = [[Recording Industry Association of New Zealand|NZL]] RIANZ<ref name="NZCharts">{{cite web|url=https://charts.nz/showinterpret.asp?interpret=Skyhooks|title=Discography: Skyhooks|publisher=New Zealand charts portal|access-date=26 November 2009}}</ref>
| chartC = [[UK Singles Chart|UK]]<ref>{{cite book | editor=David Roberts |title=Guinness Book of British Hit Singles & Albums |year=2006 | publisher = Guinness World Records Ltd|isbn=1-904994-10-5}}</ref>
| title1 = [[Living in the 70's (song)|Living in the 70's]] | album1 = Living in the 70's | albumspan1 = 2 | year1 = 1974 | peak1A = 28|
| title2 = [[Horror Movie (Skyhooks song)|Horror Movie]] | year2 = 1975 | yearspan2 = 4 | peak2A = 1
| title3 = [[Ego Is Not a Dirty Word (song)|Ego Is Not a Dirty Word]] | album3 = Ego Is Not a Dirty Word | albumspan3 = 2 | peak3A = 2
| title4 = [[All My Friends Are Getting Married]] | peak4A = 2
| title5 = [[Million Dollar Riff]] | album5 = Straight in a Gay Gay World | peak5A = 6
| title6 = [[Let It Rock (Chuck Berry song)|Let It Rock]] | year6 = 1976 | yearspan6 = 3 | peak6A = 26 | album6 = {{noitalics|Non-album single}} | note6 = live version
| title7 = [[This Is My City]] | peak7A = 32 | album7 = Straight in a Gay Gay World | albumspan7 = 2
| title8 = [[Blue Jeans (Skyhooks song)|Blue Jeans]] | peak8A= 12 | peak8B = 3
| title9 = [[Party to End All Parties]] | album9 = The Skyhooks Tapes | year9 = 1977 | peak9A = 24
| title10 = [[Women in Uniform]] | album10 = Guilty Until Proven Insane | year10 = 1978 | yearspan10 = 2 | peak10A = 8 | albumspan10 = 2|peak10C=73
| title11 = Megalomania | peak11A = 93
| title12 = Over the Border | peak12A = 32 | year12 = 1979 | album12 = Hot for the Orient | albumspan12 = 3
| title13 = This Town Is Boring | year13 = 1980 | yearspan13 = 2
| title14 = Keep the Junk in America
| title15 = [[Hooked on Hooks]] | year15 = 1982 | album15 = {{noitalics|Non-album single}} | peak15A = 21
| title16 = [[Jukebox in Siberia]] | year16 = 1990 | album16 = The Latest and Greatest | yearspan16 = 2 | albumspan16 = 2 | peak16A = 1 | peak16B = 32
| title17 = Tall Timber | peak17A = 66
| title18 = [[Happy Hippy Hut]]" / "[[The Ballad of Oz]] | album18= The Lost Album | year18 = 1994 | note18 = by [[Daddy Cool (band)|Daddy Cool]] | peak18A = 35
}}

==Awards and nominations==
===ARIA Music Awards===
The [[ARIA Music Awards]] is an annual awards ceremony that recognises excellence, innovation, and achievement across all genres of [[Australian music]]. They commenced in 1987. Skyhooks inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2005.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ariaawards.com.au/history-by-award.php?awardID=36 |title=Winners by Award: Hall of Fame |publisher=[[Australian Recording Industry Association]] |access-date=23 October 2020 |archive-date=2 February 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090202052952/http://www.ariaawards.com.au/history-by-award.php?awardID=36 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

{{awards table}}
|-
| [[ARIA Music Awards of 1992|1992]]
| Skyhooks
| [[ARIA Hall of Fame]]
| {{yes2|inductee}}
{{end}}

===Australian Record Awards===
{{awards table}}
|-
| 1975<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Cash-Box/70s/1975/CB-1975-11-29.pdf |magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]] |publisher=World Radio History |page=58 |date=29 November 1975 |access-date=2023-06-28 |title=Australian Record Awards Announced |lang=en |url-status=live |archive-date=22 Feb 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230222143713/https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Cash-Box/70s/1975/CB-1975-11-29.pdf}}</ref>
| ''Ego Is Not a Dirty Word''
| Group Album of the Year
| {{won}}
|}

===King of Pop Awards===
[[Australian pop music awards#1967–1978: King of Pop Awards|The King of Pop Awards]] were voted by the readers of [[TV Week]]. The King of Pop award started in 1967 and ran through to 1978.<ref name="Top40TV">{{Cite web | url = http://users.ncable.net.au/~ronjeff/top40/oz_king.htm | title = Australian Music Awards | publisher = Ron Jeff | access-date = 16 December 2010 | archive-date = 30 June 2012 | archive-url = https://archive.today/20120630220831/http://users.ncable.net.au/~ronjeff/top40/oz_king.htm | url-status = dead }}</ref>

{{awards table}}
|-
| rowspan="3" |1975
| "Horror Movie"
| Australian Record of the Year
| {{won}}
|-
| ''Ego is not a Dirty Word''
| Most Popular Australian Album
| {{won}}
|-
| Greg Macainsh (Skyhooks)
| Best Australian Songwriter
| {{won}}
|-
|1976
| ''Straight in a Gay Gay World''
| Best Cover Design
| {{won}}
|-
|1978
| "Hotel Hell" by Skyhooks on Nightmoves
| Best Australian TV Performer
| {{won}}
|-
{{end}}

* Note: wins only

==See also==
{{Portal|Music|Australia}}
* [[Sherbet (band)|Sherbet]]

==References==
{{refbegin}}
;General
*{{cite book|title=Skyhooks : Million Dollar Riff|last=Brown|first=Jennifer Lois|year=1975|publisher=Dingo|location=[[Collingwood, Victoria|Collingwood, Vic]]|isbn=0-909109-01-X}}<ref>{{cite book|url=http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/1037504|title=Skyhooks : million dollar riff / (by) Jenny Brown|work=catalogue|year=1975|publisher=[[National Library of Australia]]|isbn=9780909109011|access-date=23 November 2009}}</ref>
*{{cite book|title=Ego Is not a Dirty Word: The Skyhooks Story|last=Jenkins|first=Jeff|year=1994|publisher=Kelly & Withers|location=[[Fitzroy, Victoria|Fitzroy, Vic]]|isbn= 0-646-20355-X}}<ref>{{cite book|url=http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/423300|title=Ego is not a dirty word : the Skyhooks story / by Jeff Jenkins|work=catalogue|year=1994|publisher=National Library of Australia|isbn=9780646203553|access-date=25 November 2009}}</ref>
*{{cite web|url={{AllMusic|class=artist|id=p20574/biography|pure_url=yes}}|publisher=[[AllMusic]]|last=Nimmervoll|first=Ed|author-link=Ed Nimmervoll|access-date=25 November 2009|title=Skyhooks}}
*{{cite book|title=The Who's Who of Australian Rock|last=Spencer|first=Chris|author2=Zbig Nowara |author3=Paul McHenry |orig-year=1987|year=2002|publisher=Five Mile Press|location=[[Noble Park, Victoria|Noble Park]], Vic.|isbn=1-86503-891-1}}<ref>{{cite web|url=http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/2090055|title=Who's who of Australian rock / compiled by Chris Spencer, Zbig Nowara & Paul McHenry|work=catalogue|publisher=National Library of Australia|access-date=25 November 2009}}</ref> Note: [on-line] version established at [https://web.archive.org/web/20120229232852/http://www.whiteroom.com.au/howlspace/whoswho/aboutww.htm White Room Electronic Publishing Pty Ltd] in 2007 and was expanded from the 2002 edition.
;Specific
{{refend}}

{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*{{Official website |http://www.skyhooks-music.com/}}
*[http://musicbrainz.org/artist/28d34cd8-99b4-42f4-aaec-8f03c44cdb89.html Skyhooks] at [[MusicBrainz]]
* {{Discogs artist|Skyhooks}}
*[http://www.billboard.com/#/artist/skyhooks/discography/albums/17660 Skyhooks discography] at ''[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]''

{{Skyhooks}}

{{Authority control}}

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[[Category:ARIA Award winners]]
[[Category:ARIA Hall of Fame inductees]]
[[Category:Musical groups established in 1973]]
[[Category:Musical groups disestablished in 1980]]
[[Category:Musical groups from Melbourne]]
[[Category:Australian glam rock musical groups]]

Living in the 70's

2023-05-14T05:13:31Z

110.142.107.65: Album sales were 330,000

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}
{{Infobox album
| name = Living in the 70's
| type = studio
| artist = [[Skyhooks (band)|Skyhooks]]
| cover = livingin70s.jpg
| alt =
| released = 28 October 1974
| recorded = June 1974
| studio = TCS Studios, Melbourne
| genre = [[Rock music|Rock]], [[glam rock]]
| length = 38:48
| label = [[Mushroom Records|Mushroom]]
| producer = [[Ross Wilson (musician)|Ross Wilson]]
| prev_title =
| prev_year =
| next_title = [[Ego Is Not a Dirty Word]]
| next_year = 1975
| misc = {{Singles
| name = Living in the 70's
| type = studio
| single1 = [[Living in the 70's (song)|Livin' in the 70's]]
| single1date = August 1974
| single2 = [[Horror Movie (song)|Horror Movie]]
| single2date = December 1974
}}
}}
{{Album ratings
| rev1 = [[AllMusic]]
| rev1score = {{rating|3|5}}<ref>[http://www.allmusic.com/album/r727951 Allmusic Review]</ref>
}}

'''''Living in the 70's''''' is the debut album by Melbourne band [[Skyhooks (band)|Skyhooks]]. Released in October 1974 on the [[Mushroom Records]] label, the album achieved relatively little success until early 1975. It spent 16 weeks at the top of the Australian album charts from late February 1975, and became the highest-selling album by an Australian act in Australia until that time, with sales of over 330,000.<ref name="Billboard">{{cite magazine|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-Billboard/80s/1983/BB-1983-05-28.pdf|title=Australia - Explosive Talent Gains Temper Year of playing Dangerously|magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]|first=Glen A.|last=Baker|via=World Radio History|page=A-3|date=28 May 1983|access-date=10 November 2021}}</ref> In October 2010, it was listed at No. 9 in the book ''[[100 Best Australian Albums]]''.<ref name="ODonnell">{{Cite book | title = [[100 Best Australian Albums]] | last1 = O'Donnell | first1 = John | author-link1 = John O'Donnell (music journalist) | last2 = Creswell | first2=Toby | author-link2 = Toby Creswell | last3 = Mathieson | first3 = Craig | author-link3 = Craig Mathieson | publisher = Hardie Grant Books | date = October 2010 | location = [[Prahran, Victoria|Prahran, Vic]] | isbn = 978-1-74066-955-9 }}</ref> The album's eponymous track was ranked number 72 as part of [[Triple M]]'s "Ozzest 100", the 'most Australian' songs of all time ranking.<ref>{{cite news|work=Musicfeeds|title=Here Are The Songs That Made Triple M's 'Ozzest 100'|url= http://musicfeeds.com.au/news/songs-made-triple-ms-ozzest-100/|accessdate=4 January 2020|date=27 January 2018}}</ref>

==Details==
The album was produced by former [[Daddy Cool (band)|Daddy Cool]] lead singer [[Ross Wilson (musician)|Ross Wilson]].

The artwork (external front and back, and internal gatefold) was painted by Niels Hutchison.

Two singles were lifted from the album: "Livin' in the 70's", which was released with a non-LP track, "You're a Broken Gin Bottle, Baby", included as track 11 on the 2004 CD remaster; and "[[Horror Movie (Skyhooks song)|Horror Movie]]"/"Carlton (Lygon Street Limbo)". The latter spent 2 weeks at the top of the [[List of number-one singles in Australia during the 1970s#1975|Australian singles chart in 1975]]. Six tracks from the album were banned on commercial radio in Australia; in defiance of this, however, the [[Australian Broadcasting Corporation|ABC]]'s new youth station in Sydney, [[Triple J|2JJ]], played the track "You Just Like Me 'Cos I'm Good in Bed" as its first ever song when it began broadcasting in January 1975.

In 2011 the album featured at number 75 on the [[Triple J Hottest 100 Australian Albums of All Time, 2011|Triple J Hottest 100 Albums of All Time]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/hottest100/alltime/11/countdown/all.htm |title=Countdown - All 100 | Hottest 100 Australian Albums Of All Time | triple j |publisher=Abc.net.au |date=2011-01-28 |accessdate=2012-02-29}}</ref> In the same year, the album was added to the [[National Film and Sound Archive]] of Australia's [[Sounds of Australia]] registry.<ref>National Film and Sound Archive: 'Living in the 70s' on the [http://nfsa.gov.au/collection/sound/sounds-australia/ Sounds of Australia registry]</ref>

==Track listing==
{{Track listing
| headline = Side A
| title1 = [[Living in the 70's (song)|Livin' in the 70's]]
| writer1 = [[Greg Macainsh]]
| length1 = 3:42
| title2 = Whatever Happened to the Revolution?
| writer2 = Macainsh
| length2 = 4:08
| title3 = Balwyn Calling
| writer3 = Macainsh
| length3 = 3:44
| title4 = [[Horror Movie (song)|Horror Movie]]
| writer4 = Macainsh
| length4 = 3:47
| title5 = You Just Like Me 'Cos I'm Good in Bed
| writer5 = Macainsh
| length5 = 3:44
}}

{{Track listing
| headline = Side B
| title1 = Carlton (Lygon Street Limbo)
| writer1 = Macainsh
| length1 = 3:56
| title2 = Toorak Cowboy
| writer2 = Macainsh
| length2 = 3:45
| title3 = Smut
| writer3 = [[Red Symons]]
| length3 = 5:19
| title4 = Hey, What's the Matter?
| writer4 = Macainsh
| length4 = 2:47
| title5 = Motorcycle Bitch
| writer5 = Macainsh
| length5 = 3:56
}}

==Personnel==
*[[Graeme Strachan|Shirley Strachan]] – lead vocals (all but 8)
*[[Red Symons]] – guitar, backing and lead (8) vocals, mandolin
*Bob "Bongo" Starkie – guitar, backing vocals
*[[Greg Macainsh]] – bass guitar, backing vocals
*Imants Alfred "Freddie" Strauks – drums, backing vocals, percussion

==Charts==
===Weekly charts===
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center"
|+ Weekly chart performance for ''Living in the 70's''
!Chart (1974–1975)
!Peak position
|-
! scope="row"| Australian [[Kent Music Report]] Albums Chart<ref name="Kent">{{cite book|title=[[Kent Music Report|Australian Chart Book 1970–1992]]|last=Kent|first=David|author-link=David Kent (historian)|publisher=Australian Chart Book Ltd|location=[[St Ives, New South Wales|St Ives, NSW]]|year=1993|isbn=0-646-11917-6}} NOTE: Used for Australian Singles and Albums charting from 1974 until [[Australian Recording Industry Association|ARIA]] created their own [[ARIA Charts|charts]] in mid-1988. In 1992, Kent back calculated chart positions for 1970–1974.</ref>
| 1
|}

===Year-end charts===
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center"
|+ Year-end chart performance for ''Living in the 70's''
!Chart (1975)
!Position
|-
! scope="row"| Australian [[Kent Music Report]] [[List of Top 25 albums for 1975 in Australia|Albums Chart]]<ref name=Kent />
| 1
|}

==Sales==
{{certification Table Top|caption=Sales of ''Living in the 70's''}}
{{Certification Table Entry|type=album|relyear=1974|certyear=1975|region=Australia|nocert=true|salesamount=330,000|salesref=<ref name="Billboardb">{{cite magazine|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-Billboard/80s/1983/BB-1983-05-28.pdf|title=Australia - Explosive Talent Gains Temper Year of playing Dangerously|magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]|first=Glen A.|last=Baker|via=World Radio History|page=A-3|date=28 May 1983|access-date=10 November 2021}}</ref>}}
{{table end}}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

{{Skyhooks}}

{{Authority control}}

[[Category:1974 debut albums]]
[[Category:Skyhooks (band) albums]]
[[Category:Mushroom Records albums]]

Living in the 70's

2023-05-14T05:13:00Z

110.142.107.65: /* Sales */Album sold around 330,000 copies

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}
{{Infobox album
| name = Living in the 70's
| type = studio
| artist = [[Skyhooks (band)|Skyhooks]]
| cover = livingin70s.jpg
| alt =
| released = 28 October 1974
| recorded = June 1974
| studio = TCS Studios, Melbourne
| genre = [[Rock music|Rock]], [[glam rock]]
| length = 38:48
| label = [[Mushroom Records|Mushroom]]
| producer = [[Ross Wilson (musician)|Ross Wilson]]
| prev_title =
| prev_year =
| next_title = [[Ego Is Not a Dirty Word]]
| next_year = 1975
| misc = {{Singles
| name = Living in the 70's
| type = studio
| single1 = [[Living in the 70's (song)|Livin' in the 70's]]
| single1date = August 1974
| single2 = [[Horror Movie (song)|Horror Movie]]
| single2date = December 1974
}}
}}
{{Album ratings
| rev1 = [[AllMusic]]
| rev1score = {{rating|3|5}}<ref>[http://www.allmusic.com/album/r727951 Allmusic Review]</ref>
}}

'''''Living in the 70's''''' is the debut album by Melbourne band [[Skyhooks (band)|Skyhooks]]. Released in October 1974 on the [[Mushroom Records]] label, the album achieved relatively little success until early 1975. It spent 16 weeks at the top of the Australian album charts from late February 1975, and became the highest-selling album by an Australian act in Australia until that time, with sales of over 200,000.<ref name="Billboard">{{cite magazine|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-Billboard/80s/1983/BB-1983-05-28.pdf|title=Australia - Explosive Talent Gains Temper Year of playing Dangerously|magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]|first=Glen A.|last=Baker|via=World Radio History|page=A-3|date=28 May 1983|access-date=10 November 2021}}</ref> In October 2010, it was listed at No. 9 in the book ''[[100 Best Australian Albums]]''.<ref name="ODonnell">{{Cite book | title = [[100 Best Australian Albums]] | last1 = O'Donnell | first1 = John | author-link1 = John O'Donnell (music journalist) | last2 = Creswell | first2=Toby | author-link2 = Toby Creswell | last3 = Mathieson | first3 = Craig | author-link3 = Craig Mathieson | publisher = Hardie Grant Books | date = October 2010 | location = [[Prahran, Victoria|Prahran, Vic]] | isbn = 978-1-74066-955-9 }}</ref> The album's eponymous track was ranked number 72 as part of [[Triple M]]'s "Ozzest 100", the 'most Australian' songs of all time ranking.<ref>{{cite news|work=Musicfeeds|title=Here Are The Songs That Made Triple M's 'Ozzest 100'|url= http://musicfeeds.com.au/news/songs-made-triple-ms-ozzest-100/|accessdate=4 January 2020|date=27 January 2018}}</ref>

==Details==
The album was produced by former [[Daddy Cool (band)|Daddy Cool]] lead singer [[Ross Wilson (musician)|Ross Wilson]].

The artwork (external front and back, and internal gatefold) was painted by Niels Hutchison.

Two singles were lifted from the album: "Livin' in the 70's", which was released with a non-LP track, "You're a Broken Gin Bottle, Baby", included as track 11 on the 2004 CD remaster; and "[[Horror Movie (Skyhooks song)|Horror Movie]]"/"Carlton (Lygon Street Limbo)". The latter spent 2 weeks at the top of the [[List of number-one singles in Australia during the 1970s#1975|Australian singles chart in 1975]]. Six tracks from the album were banned on commercial radio in Australia; in defiance of this, however, the [[Australian Broadcasting Corporation|ABC]]'s new youth station in Sydney, [[Triple J|2JJ]], played the track "You Just Like Me 'Cos I'm Good in Bed" as its first ever song when it began broadcasting in January 1975.

In 2011 the album featured at number 75 on the [[Triple J Hottest 100 Australian Albums of All Time, 2011|Triple J Hottest 100 Albums of All Time]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/hottest100/alltime/11/countdown/all.htm |title=Countdown - All 100 | Hottest 100 Australian Albums Of All Time | triple j |publisher=Abc.net.au |date=2011-01-28 |accessdate=2012-02-29}}</ref> In the same year, the album was added to the [[National Film and Sound Archive]] of Australia's [[Sounds of Australia]] registry.<ref>National Film and Sound Archive: 'Living in the 70s' on the [http://nfsa.gov.au/collection/sound/sounds-australia/ Sounds of Australia registry]</ref>

==Track listing==
{{Track listing
| headline = Side A
| title1 = [[Living in the 70's (song)|Livin' in the 70's]]
| writer1 = [[Greg Macainsh]]
| length1 = 3:42
| title2 = Whatever Happened to the Revolution?
| writer2 = Macainsh
| length2 = 4:08
| title3 = Balwyn Calling
| writer3 = Macainsh
| length3 = 3:44
| title4 = [[Horror Movie (song)|Horror Movie]]
| writer4 = Macainsh
| length4 = 3:47
| title5 = You Just Like Me 'Cos I'm Good in Bed
| writer5 = Macainsh
| length5 = 3:44
}}

{{Track listing
| headline = Side B
| title1 = Carlton (Lygon Street Limbo)
| writer1 = Macainsh
| length1 = 3:56
| title2 = Toorak Cowboy
| writer2 = Macainsh
| length2 = 3:45
| title3 = Smut
| writer3 = [[Red Symons]]
| length3 = 5:19
| title4 = Hey, What's the Matter?
| writer4 = Macainsh
| length4 = 2:47
| title5 = Motorcycle Bitch
| writer5 = Macainsh
| length5 = 3:56
}}

==Personnel==
*[[Graeme Strachan|Shirley Strachan]] – lead vocals (all but 8)
*[[Red Symons]] – guitar, backing and lead (8) vocals, mandolin
*Bob "Bongo" Starkie – guitar, backing vocals
*[[Greg Macainsh]] – bass guitar, backing vocals
*Imants Alfred "Freddie" Strauks – drums, backing vocals, percussion

==Charts==
===Weekly charts===
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center"
|+ Weekly chart performance for ''Living in the 70's''
!Chart (1974–1975)
!Peak position
|-
! scope="row"| Australian [[Kent Music Report]] Albums Chart<ref name="Kent">{{cite book|title=[[Kent Music Report|Australian Chart Book 1970–1992]]|last=Kent|first=David|author-link=David Kent (historian)|publisher=Australian Chart Book Ltd|location=[[St Ives, New South Wales|St Ives, NSW]]|year=1993|isbn=0-646-11917-6}} NOTE: Used for Australian Singles and Albums charting from 1974 until [[Australian Recording Industry Association|ARIA]] created their own [[ARIA Charts|charts]] in mid-1988. In 1992, Kent back calculated chart positions for 1970–1974.</ref>
| 1
|}

===Year-end charts===
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center"
|+ Year-end chart performance for ''Living in the 70's''
!Chart (1975)
!Position
|-
! scope="row"| Australian [[Kent Music Report]] [[List of Top 25 albums for 1975 in Australia|Albums Chart]]<ref name=Kent />
| 1
|}

==Sales==
{{certification Table Top|caption=Sales of ''Living in the 70's''}}
{{Certification Table Entry|type=album|relyear=1974|certyear=1975|region=Australia|nocert=true|salesamount=330,000|salesref=<ref name="Billboardb">{{cite magazine|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-Billboard/80s/1983/BB-1983-05-28.pdf|title=Australia - Explosive Talent Gains Temper Year of playing Dangerously|magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]|first=Glen A.|last=Baker|via=World Radio History|page=A-3|date=28 May 1983|access-date=10 November 2021}}</ref>}}
{{table end}}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

{{Skyhooks}}

{{Authority control}}

[[Category:1974 debut albums]]
[[Category:Skyhooks (band) albums]]
[[Category:Mushroom Records albums]]

Straight in a Gay Gay World

2023-05-14T05:11:12Z

110.142.107.65: Album peaked at number 1

{{EngvarB|date=December 2020}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2020}}
{{Infobox album
| name = Straight in a Gay Gay World
| type = Studio album
| artist = [[Skyhooks (band)|Skyhooks]]
| cover = straightgayworld.jpg
| alt =
| released = August 1976
| recorded =
| studio = [[The Record Plant]], Sausalito and [[Armstrong Studios]], Melbourne; "Million Dollar Riff" recorded at TCS Studios, Melbourne
| genre = [[Glam rock]]
| length = 37:46
| label = [[Mushroom Records|Mushroom]]
| producer = [[Ross Wilson (musician)|Ross Wilson]]
| prev_title = [[Ego Is Not a Dirty Word]]
| prev_year = 1975
| next_title = [[The Skyhooks Tapes]]
| next_year = 1977
| misc = {{Singles
| name = Straight in a Gay Gay World
| type = studio
| single1 = [[Million Dollar Riff]]
| single1date = November 1975
| single2 = [[This is My City]]
| single2date = July 1976
| single3 = [[Blue Jeans (Skyhooks song)|Blue Jeans]]
| single3date = August 1976
}}
}}

'''''Straight in a Gay Gay World''''' was the third studio album by Australian rock band, [[Skyhooks (band)|Skyhooks]]. The album was released in August 1976. With the exception of "[[Million Dollar Riff]]", it was recorded at [[The Record Plant]] in [[Sausalito, California]], after the band's first tour of the United States earlier in the same year. The title and songs are a sort of view the band had on their experience in the States. The album was produced by former [[Daddy Cool (band)|Daddy Cool]] leader [[Ross Wilson (musician)|Ross Wilson]]. It peaked at No. 1 on the Australian charts.

At the Australian [[Australian pop music awards|1976 King of Pop Awards]] the album won Best Cover Design.<ref name="Top40TV">{{Cite web | url = http://users.ncable.net.au/~ronjeff/top40/oz_king.htm | title = Australian Music Awards | publisher = Ron Jeff | access-date = 16 December 2010 }}</ref>

"Million Dollar Riff" was released as a single in November 1975 and it reached No. 6 in Australia. Two further singles were lifted from this album, "[[This is My City]]" and "[[Blue Jeans (Skyhooks song)|Blue Jeans]]", both in 1976 which peaked at No. 32 and No. 12 respectively on Australian charts.

==Details==

Prior to release, Strachan said of the songs in ''[[Rock Australia Magazine|RAM]]'', "Some of 'em are the strongest things the band's doing. There's one called "Sydney", that's all about Sydney. We were considering using it for a single instead of "[[Million Dollar Riff]]". And "I'm Normal". It's all about a guy who throws away his rubber sheets and dildos and vibrators and sex pills to get back to holding hands."<ref>{{cite journal | author = O'Grady, Anthony | author-link = Anthony O'Grady | title = Shirl the Curl on promo quickstep trail| journal = RAM | date =January 1976 | issue=22|publisher = Soundtracts Publishing Pty Ltd | location = Sydney, NSW }}</ref>

Macainsh said "Blue Jeans" had been an early song from the band. "[[Ross Wilson (musician)|Ross Wilson]] has always tried to get it recorded, but we've never been real keen on the idea til we got stuck for a song on this album. We wanted a couple of laidback tunes to round it off rather than have an album of ravers and up stuff."<ref>{{cite magazine| magazine= [[Rock Australia Magazine]] | title=Hullo, this is Greg Macainsh|author=[[Anthony O'Grady]] | date=13 August 1976|page=19|issue=38}}</ref>

==Reception==
Reviewed in Australian music magazine ''RAM'' at the time of release, it was called, "[[methedrine]] power rock. It's jingle-jangley and crazy-tempered with guitar that shrill jackhammer like giant mosquitoes – dive-bombing into rhythms that are playing epileptic leap-frog around your stereo speakers." The song "Crazy Heart" was complimented for being "sweetly mellow" compared to the rest of the album.<ref name="ram review">{{cite journal | author = Anthony O'Grady| title = Skyhooks Straight in a Gay Gay World| journal = RAM | issue =August 1976 | publisher = Soundtracts Publishing Pty Ltd | location = Sydney, NSW }}</ref>

==Track listing==
{{Track listing
| headline = Side A
| title1 = [[Million Dollar Riff]]
| writer1 = [[Greg Macainsh]]
| length1 = 3:50
| title2 = Is This America?
| writer2 = Macainsh
| length2 = 4:32
| title3 = [[Blue Jeans (Skyhooks song)|Blue Jeans]]
| writer3 = Macainsh
| length3 = 2:30
| title4 = Somewhere in Sydney
| writer4 = Macainsh
| length4 = 3:46
| title5 = The Girl Says She's Bored
| writer5 = Macainsh
| length5 = 3:33
}}

{{Track listing
| headline = Side B
| title1 = [[This Is My City]]
| writer1 = Macainsh
| length1 = 3:40
| title2 = Straight in a Gay Gay World
| writer2 = Macainsh
| length2 = 4:29
| title3 = I'm Normal
| writer3 = Macainsh
| length3 = 3:15
| title4 = Mumbo Jumbo
| writer4 = [[Red Symons]]
| length4 = 3:24
| title5 = Crazy Heart
| writer5 = Macainsh
| length5 = 4:47
}}

==Personnel==
*[[Graeme Strachan|Shirley Strachan]] – lead vocals
*[[Red Symons]] – guitar, backing and lead (9) vocals, keyboards
*Bob "Bongo" Starkie – guitar, backing vocals
*[[Greg Macainsh]] – bass guitar, backing vocals
*Imants Alfred Strauks – drums, backing vocals, percussion

==Charts==
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center"
|+ Chart performance for ''Straight in a Gay Gay World''
!Chart (1976)
!Peak position
|-
! scope="row"| Australian [[Kent Music Report]] Albums Chart<ref name="Kent">{{cite book|title=Australian Chart Book 1970–1992|last=Kent|first=David|author-link=David Kent (historian)|publisher=Australian Chart Book Ltd|location=[[St Ives, New South Wales|St Ives, NSW]]|year=1993|isbn=0-646-11917-6|title-link=Kent Music Report}} NOTE: Used for Australian Singles and Albums charting from 1974 until [[Australian Recording Industry Association|ARIA]] created their own [[ARIA Charts|charts]] in mid-1988.</ref>
| 1
|}

==References==
{{reflist}}
{{Skyhooks}}

{{Authority control}}

[[Category:Skyhooks (band) albums]]
[[Category:1976 albums]]
[[Category:Glam rock albums by Australian artists]]
[[Category:Mushroom Records albums]]

Chip Le Grand

2020-10-24T02:54:23Z

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{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2017}}
{{Use Australian English|date=August 2015}}
{{BLP sources|date=September 2010}}

'''Chip Le Grand''' (born '''Homer Eugene Le Grand''')<ref>{{cite news |title=Demetriou taunts reporter on air |url=https://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/demetriou-taunts-reporter-on-air/news-story/63efe0f59cc1ac5c7d7f65aa910b527a |work=[[The Australian]] |date=13 September 2013}}</ref> is an Australian journalist who lives in [[Melbourne]]. He worked for 25 years for the national newspaper, ''[[The Australian]]'', writing about national affairs, sport, politics and crime. In August 2019, he joined ''[[The Age]]'' newspaper as its chief reporter.<ref>''The Age'', 13 July 2019, p. 3.</ref>

He is the winner of the Walkley Book Award for ''The Straight Dope'',<ref>[https://www.booktopia.com.au/blog/2015/12/04/chip-le-grands-the-straight-dope-the-inside-story-of-sports-biggest-drug-scandal-wins-2015-walkley-book-award/ Le Grand, C. 2015, ''The Straight Dope'', Melbourne University Publishing, Carlton.]</ref> the inside story of the Essendon and Cronulla doping scandal, published in 2015 by Melbourne University Publishing.

His writing was included in an anthology of sports newspaper writing, ''The Best Australian Sports Writing, 2002''.Chip is another left wing twitter nazi who does not like real investigative journalists like Peta Credlin who unlike Chip actually do the hard yards and unccover the real truth <ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=1TCMwSy5ozIC&pg=PA152&lpg=PA152&dq=%22chip+le+grand%22&source=bl&ots=KajU5KML4M&sig=tXRCLBpodBBf7QT3x4dGhQBycOg&hl=en&ei=2_qITKOREcOrcb3R1J4I&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=9&ved=0CDQQ6AEwCA#v=onepage&q=%22chip%20le%20grand%22&f=false Hutchinson, G. (Ed.) 2002, ''The Best Australian Sports Writing'', Black Inc., Melbourne.]</ref>

==References==
{{Reflist}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Le Grand, Chip}}
[[Category:Australian journalists]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:Year of birth missing (living people)]]

{{Australia-journalist-stub}}

Living in the 70's

2020-09-27T01:48:27Z

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{{Infobox album
| name = Living in the 70's
| type = Studio
| artist = [[Skyhooks (band)|Skyhooks]]
| cover = livingin70s.jpg
| alt =
| released = 28 October 1974
| recorded = June 1974
| venue =
| studio = TCS Studios, [[Melbourne]]
| genre = [[Rock music|Rock]], [[glam rock]]
| length = 38:48 (original version)
| label = [[Mushroom Records]]
| producer = [[Ross Wilson (musician)|Ross Wilson]]
| prev_title =
| prev_year =
| next_title = [[Ego Is Not a Dirty Word]]
| next_year = 1975
| misc = {{Singles
| name = Living in the 70's
| type = studio
| single1 = Livin' in the 70's
| single1date = August 1974
| single2 = Horror Movie
| single2date = November 1974
}}
}}
{{Album ratings
|rev1 = [[Allmusic]]
|rev1score = {{rating|3|5}}<ref>[http://www.allmusic.com/album/r727951 Allmusic Review]</ref>
}}

'''''Living in the 70's''''' is the debut album by Melbourne band [[Skyhooks (band)|Skyhooks]]. Released in October 1974 on the [[Mushroom Records]] label, the album achieved relatively little success until early 1975. It spent 16 weeks at the top of the Australian album charts from late February 1975, and became the highest-selling album by an Australian act in Australia until that time, with sales of 300,000. In October 2010, it was listed at No. 9 in the book ''[[100 Best Australian Albums]]''.<ref name="ODonnell">{{Cite book | title = [[100 Best Australian Albums]] | last1 = O'Donnell | first1 = John | authorlink1 = John O'Donnell (music journalist) | last2 = Creswell | first2=Toby | authorlink2 = Toby Creswell | last3 = Mathieson | first3 = Craig | authorlink3 = Craig Mathieson | publisher = Hardie Grant Books | date = October 2010 | location = [[Prahran, Victoria|Prahran, Vic]] | isbn = 978-1-74066-955-9 }}</ref> The album's eponymous track was ranked number 72 as part of [[Triple M]]'s "Ozzest 100", the 'most Australian' songs of all time ranking.<ref>{{cite news|author=|work=Musicfeeds|title=Here Are The Songs That Made Triple M's 'Ozzest 100'|url= http://musicfeeds.com.au/news/songs-made-triple-ms-ozzest-100/|accessdate=4 January 2020|date=27 January 2018}}</ref>

==Details==
The album was produced by former [[Daddy Cool (band)|Daddy Cool]] lead singer [[Ross Wilson (musician)|Ross Wilson]].

Two singles were lifted from the album: "Livin' in the 70's"/"You're a Broken Gin Bottle, Baby" and "[[Horror Movie (Skyhooks song)|Horror Movie]]"/"Carlton (Lygon Street Limbo)". The latter spent 2 weeks at the top of the [[List of number-one singles in Australia during the 1970s#1975|Australian singles chart in 1975]]. Six tracks from the album were banned on commercial radio in Australia; in defiance of this, however, the ABC's new youth station in Sydney, [[Triple J|2JJ]], played the track "You Just Like Me 'Cos I'm Good in Bed" as their first ever song when they began broadcasting in January 1975.

"Broken Gin Bottle", the B-side of the original "Living in the 70's" single, was included as track 11 on the 2004 CD remaster.

In 2011 the album featured at number 75 on the [[Triple J Hottest 100 Australian Albums of All Time, 2011|Triple J Hottest 100 Albums of All Time]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/hottest100/alltime/11/countdown/all.htm |title=Countdown - All 100 | Hottest 100 Australian Albums Of All Time | triple j |publisher=Abc.net.au |date=2011-01-28 |accessdate=2012-02-29}}</ref> In the same year, the album was added to the [[National Film and Sound Archive]] of Australia's [[Sounds of Australia]] registry.<ref>National Film and Sound Archive: 'Living in the 70s' on the [http://nfsa.gov.au/collection/sound/sounds-australia/ Sounds of Australia registry]</ref>

==Track listing==
{{Track listing
| headline = Side A
| title1 = Livin' in the 70's
| writer1 = [[Greg Macainsh]]
| length1 = 3:42
| title2 = Whatever Happened to the Revolution?
| writer2 = Macainsh
| length2 = 4:08
| title3 = Balwyn Calling
| writer3 = Macainsh
| length3 = 3:44
| title4 = [[Horror Movie (song)|Horror Movie]]
| writer4 = Macainsh
| length4 = 3:47
| title5 = You Just Like Me 'Cos I'm Good in Bed
| writer5 = Macainsh
| length5 = 3:44
}}

{{Track listing
| headline = Side B
| title1 = Carlton (Lygon Street Limbo)
| writer1 = Macainsh
| length1 = 3:56
| title2 = Toorak Cowboy
| writer2 = Macainsh
| length2 = 3:45
| title3 = Smut
| writer3 = [[Red Symons]]
| length3 = 5:19
| title4 = Hey, What's the Matter?
| writer4 = Macainsh
| length4 = 2:47
| title5 = Motorcycle Bitch
| writer5 = Macainsh
| length5 = 3:56
}}

==Chart positions==
===Weekly charts===
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center"
!Chart (1974/75)
!Peak position
|-
! scope="row"| Australian [[Kent Music Report]] Albums Chart<ref name="Kent">{{cite book|title=[[Kent Music Report|Australian Chart Book 1970–1992]]|last=Kent|first=David|authorlink=David Kent (historian)|publisher=Australian Chart Book Ltd|location=[[St Ives, New South Wales|St Ives, NSW]]|year=1993|isbn=0-646-11917-6}} NOTE: Used for Australian Singles and Albums charting from 1974 until [[Australian Recording Industry Association|ARIA]] created their own [[ARIA Charts|charts]] in mid-1988. In 1992, Kent back calculated chart positions for 1970–1974.</ref>
| 1
|-
|}

===Year-end charts===
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center"
!Chart (1975)
!Position
|-
! scope="row"| Australian [[Kent Music Report]] [[List of Top 25 albums for 1976 in Australia|Albums Chart]]<ref name=Kent />
| 1
|-
|}

==Personnel==
*[[Graeme Strachan|Shirley Strachan]] - lead vocals (all but 8)
*[[Red Symons]] - guitar, backing and lead (8) vocals, mandolin
*Bob "Bongo" Starkie - guitar, backing vocals
*[[Greg Macainsh]] - bass guitar, backing vocals
*Imants Alfred "Freddie" Strauks - drums, backing vocals, percussion

==References==
{{Reflist}}

{{Skyhooks}}

[[Category:1974 debut albums]]
[[Category:Skyhooks (band) albums]]
[[Category:Mushroom Records albums]]

Ego Is Not a Dirty Word

2020-09-27T01:46:32Z

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{{short description|1975 album by Skyhooks}}
{{one source|date=February 2012}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2011}}
{{Use Australian English|date=August 2011}}
{{Infobox album
| name = Ego Is Not a Dirty Word
| type = Album
| artist = [[Skyhooks (band)|Skyhooks]]
| cover = ego_is_not.jpg
| alt =
| released = July 1975
| recorded = January–May 1975
| venue =
| studio = TCS Studios, Melbourne
| genre = [[Pop music|Pop]]/[[Rock music|Rock]]
| length = 40:09
| label = [[Mushroom Records|Mushroom]]
| producer = [[Ross Wilson (musician)|Ross Wilson]]
| prev_title = [[Living in the 70's]]
| prev_year = 1974
| next_title = [[Straight in a Gay Gay World]]
| next_year = 1976
| misc = {{Singles
| name = Ego Is Not a Dirty Word
| type = studio
| single1 = [[Ego Is Not a Dirty Word (song)|Ego Is Not a Dirty Word]]
| single1date = 9 Apr 1975
| single2 = All My Friends Are Getting Married
| single2date = June 1975
}}
}}

'''''Ego Is Not a Dirty Word''''' is the second [[studio album]] released by Australian pop rock band, [[Skyhooks (band)|Skyhooks]], in July 1975. The album was the follow-up to their highly successful debut album, ''[[Living in the 70's]]'' (1974). As with the former album, it was also produced by [[Ross Wilson (musician)|Ross Wilson]].

The album spent 11 weeks at the number-one spot in the Australian [[Kent Music Report]] Albums Chart and sold 230,000 copies.<ref name=Kent /> Two singles were lifted from the album, "[[Ego is Not a Dirty Word (song)|Ego Is Not a Dirty Word]]" and "All My Friends are Getting Married". The American release of the album contained "Horror Movie" and "You Just Like Me 'Cause I'm Good in Bed" from their first album in place of tracks 9 and 10. The album was re-released by [[Mushroom Records]] in 1997.

== Reception ==
{{Expand-section|date = May 2018}}
{{Album ratings
| rev1 = [[Allmusic]]
| rev1score = {{Rating|4.5|5}} <ref>{{Allmusic|class=album|id=r49476}}</ref>
}}

==Track listing==
{{Track listing
| headline = Side A
| title1 = [[Ego is Not a Dirty Word (song)|Ego Is Not a Dirty Word]]
| writer1 = [[Greg Macainsh]]
| length1 = 2:58
| title2 = Love on the Radio
| writer2 = Macainsh, Steve Hill
| length2 = 4:20
| title3 = Saturday Night
| writer3 = Macainsh
| length3 = 2:45
| title4 = Love's Not Good Enough
| writer4 = Macainsh
| length4 = 7:15
| title5 = The Other Side
| writer5 = Macainsh
| length5 = 3:12
}}

{{Track listing
| headline = Side B
| title1 = Smartarse Songwriters
| writer1 = Macainsh
| length1 = 4:09
| title2 = Mercedes Ladies
| writer2 = Macainsh
| length2 = 4:29
| title3 = All My Friends Are Getting Married
| writer3 = Macainsh
| length3 = 4:50
| title4 = Every Chase a Steeple
| writer4 = [[Red Symons]]
| length4 = 3:41
| title5 = Private Eye
| writer5 = Macainsh
| length5 = 3:00
}}

==Charts==
===Weekly charts===
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center"
!Chart (1975)
!Peak position
|-
! scope="row"| Australian [[Kent Music Report]] Albums Chart<ref name="Kent">{{cite book|title=[[Kent Music Report|Australian Chart Book 1970–1992]]|last=Kent|first=David|authorlink=David Kent (historian)|publisher=Australian Chart Book Ltd|location=[[St Ives, New South Wales|St Ives, NSW]]|year=1993|isbn=0-646-11917-6}} NOTE: Used for Australian Singles and Albums charting from 1974 until [[Australian Recording Industry Association|ARIA]] created their own [[ARIA Charts|charts]] in mid-1988. In 1992, Kent back calculated chart positions for 1970–1974.</ref>
| 1
|-
|}

===Year-end charts===
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center"
!Chart (1975)
!Position
|-
! scope="row"| Australian [[Kent Music Report]] [[List of Top 25 albums for 1976 in Australia|Albums Chart]]<ref name=Kent />
| 2
|-
|}

==Personnel==
;Skyhooks
*[[Graeme Strachan|Shirley Strachan]] – lead vocals
*[[Red Symons]] – guitar, backing vocals
*Bob "Bongo" Starkie – guitar, backing vocals
* [[Greg Macainsh]] – bass guitar, backing vocals
*Imants Alfred Strauks – drums, percussion, backing vocals

;Additional musicians
* Peter Jones – Fender Rhodes piano (tracks 2,8), marimba and vibes (1), chimes (3), boo bams (4)
* Greg Sneddon – Arp synthesiser (10)
* Andy Cowan – Mini Moog (10)
* [[Col Loughnan]] – tenor and baritone saxophones (6)
* [[Pat Wilson]] – finger cymbals (1)
* Ross Wilson – Yamaha synthesiser (1), vocal harmonies
* Ian Mason – harmony vocals (8)
* Jenny Keath – harmony vocals (1)

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External Links==
* {{Discogs master|193181}}

{{Skyhooks}}

[[Category:1975 albums]]
[[Category:Skyhooks (band) albums]]
[[Category:Glam rock albums by Australian artists]]
[[Category:Mushroom Records albums]]

Ego Is Not a Dirty Word

2020-09-27T01:46:00Z

110.142.107.65:

{{short description|1975 album by Skyhooks}}
{{one source|date=February 2012}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2011}}
{{Use Australian English|date=August 2011}}
{{Infobox album
| name = Ego Is Not a Dirty Word
| type = Album
| artist = [[Skyhooks (band)|Skyhooks]]
| cover = ego_is_not.jpg
| alt =
| released = July 1975
| recorded = January–May 1975
| venue =
| studio = TCS Studios, Melbourne
| genre = [[Pop music|Pop]]/[[Rock music|Rock]]
| length = 40:09
| label = [[Mushroom Records|Mushroom]]
| producer = [[Ross Wilson (musician)|Ross Wilson]]
| prev_title = [[Living in the 70's]]
| prev_year = 1974
| next_title = [[Straight in a Gay Gay World]]
| next_year = 1976
| misc = {{Singles
| name = Ego Is Not a Dirty Word
| type = studio
| single1 = [[Ego Is Not a Dirty Word (song)|Ego Is Not a Dirty Word]]
| single1date = 9 Apr 1975
| single2 = All My Friends Are Getting Married
| single2date = June 1975
}}
}}

'''''Ego Is Not a Dirty Word''''' is the second [[studio album]] released by Australian pop rock band, [[Skyhooks (band)|Skyhooks]], in July 1975. The album was the follow-up to their highly successful debut album, ''[[Living in the 70's]]'' (1974). As with the former album, it was also produced by [[Ross Wilson (musician)|Ross Wilson]].

The album spent 11 weeks at the number-one spot in the Australian [[Kent Music Report]] Albums Chart and sold 230,000 copies.<ref name=Kent /> Two singles were lifted from the album, "[[Ego is Not a Dirty Word (song)|Ego Is Not a Dirty Word]]" and "All My Friends are Getting Married". The American release of the album contained "Horror Movie" and "You Just Like Me 'Cause I'm Good in Bed" from their first album in place of tracks 9 and 10. The album was re-released by [[Mushroom Records]] in 1997.

== Reception ==
{{Expand-section|date = May 2018}}
{{Album ratings
| rev1 = [[Allmusic]]
| rev1score = {{Rating|4.5|5}} <ref>{{Allmusic|class=album|id=r49476}}</ref>
}}

==Track listing==
{{Track listing
| headline = Side A
| title1 = [[Ego is Not a Dirty Word (song)|Ego Is Not a Dirty Word]]
| writer1 = [[Greg Macainsh]]
| length1 = 2:58
| title2 = Love on the Radio
| writer2 = Macainsh, Steve Hill
| length2 = 4:20
| title3 = Saturday Night
| writer3 = Macainsh
| length3 = 2:45
| title4 = Love's Not Good Enough
| writer4 = Macainsh
| length4 = 7:15
| title5 = The Other Side
| writer5 = Macainsh
| length5 = 3:12
}}

{{Track listing
| headline = Side B
| title1 = Smartarse Songwriters
| writer1 = Macainsh
| length1 = 4:09
| title2 = Mercedes Ladies
| writer2 = Macainsh
| length2 = 4:29
| title3 = All My Friends Are Getting Married
| writer3 = Macainsh
| length3 = 4:50
| title4 = Every Chase a Steeple
| writer4 = [[Red Symons]]
| length4 = 3:41
| title5 = Private Eye
| writer5 = Macainsh
| length5 = 3:00
}}

==Charts==
===Weekly charts===
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center"
!Chart (1975)
!Peak position
|-
! scope="row"| Australian [[Kent Music Report]] Albums Chart<ref name="Kent">{{cite book|title=[[Kent Music Report|Australian Chart Book 1970–1992]]|last=Kent|first=David|authorlink=David Kent (historian)|publisher=Australian Chart Book Ltd|location=[[St Ives, New South Wales|St Ives, NSW]]|year=1993|isbn=0-646-11917-6}} NOTE: Used for Australian Singles and Albums charting from 1974 until [[Australian Recording Industry Association|ARIA]] created their own [[ARIA Charts|charts]] in mid-1988. In 1992, Kent back calculated chart positions for 1970–1974.</ref>
| 1
|-
|}

===Year-end charts===
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center"
!Chart (1975)
!Position
|-
! scope="row"| Australian [[Kent Music Report]] [[List of Top 25 albums for 1976 in Australia|Albums Chart]]<ref name=Kent />
| 4
|-
|}

==Personnel==
;Skyhooks
*[[Graeme Strachan|Shirley Strachan]] – lead vocals
*[[Red Symons]] – guitar, backing vocals
*Bob "Bongo" Starkie – guitar, backing vocals
* [[Greg Macainsh]] – bass guitar, backing vocals
*Imants Alfred Strauks – drums, percussion, backing vocals

;Additional musicians
* Peter Jones – Fender Rhodes piano (tracks 2,8), marimba and vibes (1), chimes (3), boo bams (4)
* Greg Sneddon – Arp synthesiser (10)
* Andy Cowan – Mini Moog (10)
* [[Col Loughnan]] – tenor and baritone saxophones (6)
* [[Pat Wilson]] – finger cymbals (1)
* Ross Wilson – Yamaha synthesiser (1), vocal harmonies
* Ian Mason – harmony vocals (8)
* Jenny Keath – harmony vocals (1)

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External Links==
* {{Discogs master|193181}}

{{Skyhooks}}

[[Category:1975 albums]]
[[Category:Skyhooks (band) albums]]
[[Category:Glam rock albums by Australian artists]]
[[Category:Mushroom Records albums]]

List of top 25 albums for 1975 in Australia

2020-09-27T01:45:09Z

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{{Use Australian English|date=March 2015}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2015}}
{{infobox record charts}}
The following lists the top 25 (end of year) charting albums on the Australian Album Charts, for the year of 1975. These were the best charting albums in Australia for 1975. The source for this year is the "[[Kent Music Report]]", known from 1987 onwards as the "Australian Music Report".

{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! width="400"|Title !! Artist!! Highest pos. reached!! weeks at No. 1
|-
| '''1.''' || ''[[Living in the Seventies|Living in the 70s]]'' || [[Skyhooks (band)|Skyhooks]] || 1 || 16
|-
| '''2.''' || ''[[Ego Is Not a Dirty Word]]'' || [[Skyhooks (band) |Skyhooks]] || 1 || 11
|-
| '''3.''' || ''[[On the Level]]'' || [[Status Quo (band)|Status Quo]] || 2 ||
|-
| '''4.''' || ''[[Just a Boy]]'' || [[Leo Sayer]] || 3 ||
|-
| '''5.''' || ''[[Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy]]'' || [[Elton John]] || 1 || 5
|-
| '''6.''' || ''[[Physical Graffiti]]'' || [[Led Zeppelin]] || 2 ||
|-
| '''7.''' || ''[[Great Hits/First Impressions]]'' || [[Olivia Newton-John]] || 3 ||
|-
| '''8.''' || ''[[Venus and Mars (Wings album)|Venus and Mars]]'' || [[Wings (band)|Wings]] || 2 ||
|-
| '''9.''' || ''[[An Evening with John Denver]]'' || [[John Denver]] || 4 ||
|-
| '''10.''' || ''[[Elton John's Greatest Hits]]'' || [[Elton John]] || 1 || 5
|-
| '''11.''' || ''[[Atlantic Crossing]]'' || [[Rod Stewart]] || 1 || 2
|-
| '''12.''' || ''[[Wish You Were Here (Pink Floyd album)|Wish You Were Here]]'' || [[Pink Floyd]] || 1 || 4
|-
| '''13.''' || ''[[Not Fragile]]'' || [[Bachman-Turner Overdrive]] || 2 ||
|-
| '''14.''' || ''[[Once Upon a Star]]'' || [[Bay City Rollers]] || 1 || 7
|-
| '''15.''' || ''[[Quatro (album)|Quatro]]'' || [[Suzi Quatro]] || 1 || 6 ''(pkd #1 in 1974)''
|-
| '''16.''' || ''[[Sherbet's Greatest Hits]]'' || [[Sherbet (band)|Sherbet]] || 1 || 1
|-
| '''17.''' || ''[[Windsong]]'' || [[John Denver]] || 1 || 2
|-
| '''18.''' || ''[[The Myths and Legends of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table]]'' || [[Rick Wakeman]] || 2 ||
|-
| '''19.''' || ''[[Abba (album)|Abba]]'' || [[ABBA]] || 1 || 11 ''(pkd #1 in 1975 & 76)''
|-
| '''20.''' || ''[[John Denver's Greatest Hits]]'' || [[John Denver]] || 4 ||
|-
| '''21.''' || ''[[Welcome to My Nightmare]]'' || [[Alice Cooper]] || 5 ||
|-
|'''22.''' || ''[[Tommy (1975 film)|Tommy]]'' || Original Soundtrack Recording || 6 ||
|-
| '''23.''' || ''[[The Sweet Singles Album]]'' || [[The Sweet|Sweet]] || 2 ||
|-
| '''24.''' || ''[[Serenade]]'' || [[Neil Diamond]] || 1 || 7 ''(pkd #1 in 1974 & 75)''
|-
| '''25.''' || ''[[Back Home Again (John Denver album)|Back Home Again]]'' || [[John Denver]] || 2 ||
|}

These charts are calculated by David Kent of the [[Kent Music Report]] and they are based on the number of weeks and position the records reach within the top 100 albums for each week.

source: [https://archive.is/20160305064644/http://www.austchartbook.com.au/ David Kent's "Australian Chart Book 1970-1992"]

{{Australian music charts}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Top 25 albums for 1975}}
[[Category:Australian record charts]]
[[Category:1975 in Australian music|Top]]
[[Category:1975 record charts]]

List of top 25 albums for 1975 in Australia

2020-09-27T01:44:05Z

110.142.107.65:

{{Use Australian English|date=March 2015}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2015}}
{{infobox record charts}}
The following lists the top 25 (end of year) charting albums on the Australian Album Charts, for the year of 1975. These were the best charting albums in Australia for 1975. The source for this year is the "[[Kent Music Report]]", known from 1987 onwards as the "Australian Music Report".

{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! # !! width="400"|Title !! Artist!! Highest pos. reached!! weeks at No. 1
|-
| '''1.''' || ''[[Living in the Seventies|Living in the 70s]]'' || [[Skyhooks (band)|Skyhooks]] || 1 || 16
|-
| '''2.''' || ''[[Ego Is Not A Dirty Word]]'' || [[Skyhooks (band) |Skyhooks]] || 1 || 11
|-
| '''3.''' || ''[[On the Level]]'' || [[Status Quo (band)|Status Quo]] || 2 ||
|-
| '''4.''' || ''[[Just a Boy]]'' || [[Leo Sayer]] || 3 ||
|-
| '''5.''' || ''[[Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy]]'' || [[Elton John]] || 1 || 5
|-
| '''6.''' || ''[[Physical Graffiti]]'' || [[Led Zeppelin]] || 2 ||
|-
| '''7.''' || ''[[Great Hits/First Impressions]]'' || [[Olivia Newton-John]] || 3 ||
|-
| '''8.''' || ''[[Venus and Mars (Wings album)|Venus and Mars]]'' || [[Wings (band)|Wings]] || 2 ||
|-
| '''9.''' || ''[[An Evening with John Denver]]'' || [[John Denver]] || 4 ||
|-
| '''10.''' || ''[[Elton John's Greatest Hits]]'' || [[Elton John]] || 1 || 5
|-
| '''11.''' || ''[[Atlantic Crossing]]'' || [[Rod Stewart]] || 1 || 2
|-
| '''12.''' || ''[[Wish You Were Here (Pink Floyd album)|Wish You Were Here]]'' || [[Pink Floyd]] || 1 || 4
|-
| '''13.''' || ''[[Not Fragile]]'' || [[Bachman-Turner Overdrive]] || 2 ||
|-
| '''14.''' || ''[[Once Upon a Star]]'' || [[Bay City Rollers]] || 1 || 7
|-
| '''15.''' || ''[[Quatro (album)|Quatro]]'' || [[Suzi Quatro]] || 1 || 6 ''(pkd #1 in 1974)''
|-
| '''16.''' || ''[[Sherbet's Greatest Hits]]'' || [[Sherbet (band)|Sherbet]] || 1 || 1
|-
| '''17.''' || ''[[Windsong]]'' || [[John Denver]] || 1 || 2
|-
| '''18.''' || ''[[The Myths and Legends of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table]]'' || [[Rick Wakeman]] || 2 ||
|-
| '''19.''' || ''[[Abba (album)|Abba]]'' || [[ABBA]] || 1 || 11 ''(pkd #1 in 1975 & 76)''
|-
| '''20.''' || ''[[John Denver's Greatest Hits]]'' || [[John Denver]] || 4 ||
|-
| '''21.''' || ''[[Welcome to My Nightmare]]'' || [[Alice Cooper]] || 5 ||
|-
|'''22.''' || ''[[Tommy (1975 film)|Tommy]]'' || Original Soundtrack Recording || 6 ||
|-
| '''23.''' || ''[[The Sweet Singles Album]]'' || [[The Sweet|Sweet]] || 2 ||
|-
| '''24.''' || ''[[Serenade]]'' || [[Neil Diamond]] || 1 || 7 ''(pkd #1 in 1974 & 75)''
|-
| '''25.''' || ''[[Back Home Again (John Denver album)|Back Home Again]]'' || [[John Denver]] || 2 ||
|}

These charts are calculated by David Kent of the [[Kent Music Report]] and they are based on the number of weeks and position the records reach within the top 100 albums for each week.

source: [https://archive.is/20160305064644/http://www.austchartbook.com.au/ David Kent's "Australian Chart Book 1970-1992"]

{{Australian music charts}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Top 25 albums for 1975}}
[[Category:Australian record charts]]
[[Category:1975 in Australian music|Top]]
[[Category:1975 record charts]]

Guilty Until Proven Insane

2020-09-27T01:38:47Z

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{{Infobox album
| name = Guilty Until Proven Insane
| type = Album
| artist = [[Skyhooks (band)|Skyhooks]]
| cover = guiltyuntilproveninsane.jpg
| alt =
| released = {{Start date|1978|03|13}}
| recorded = [[Armstrong Studios]], [[Melbourne]] and [[Annandale, New South Wales#Music|Trafalgar Studios]], [[Sydney]]
| venue =
| studio =
| genre = [[Glam rock]]
| length = {{Duration|m=38|s=38}}
| label = [[Mushroom Records|Mushroom]]
| producer = Eddie Leonetti
| prev_title = [[The Skyhooks Tapes]]
| prev_year = 1977
| next_title = [[Live! Be in It]]
| next_year = 1978
| misc = {{Singles
| name = Guilty Until Proven Insane
| type = studio
| single1 = [[Women in Uniform]]
| single1date = February 1978
| single2 = Meglomania
| single2date = May 1978
}}
}}

'''''Guilty Until Proven Insane''''' is the fourth [[studio album]] released by [[Skyhooks (band)|Skyhooks]] on March 13, 1978.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://rockonvinyl.blogspot.com/2011/02/skyhooks-guilty-until-proven-insane.html|title=Skyhooks - Guilty Until Proven Insane (1978) + Bonus Tracks|work=Rock On Vinyl|accessdate=9 July 2011}}</ref> It was the first album that featured [[Bob Spencer]], who replaced guitarist [[Red Symons]] in early 1977. Spencer originally played in Sydney rock band [[Finch (Australian band)|Finch]] and was later was a member of ''[[The Angels (Australian band)|The Angels]]''.

==Details==
The album's name comes from a line in "Twisted Innocence", which states 'if I'm guilty until proven insane...' Originally released as a 12" vinyl LP and also on red vinyl as a 5000-copy limited release.. It is the first album to include an [[Censorship|uncensored]] version of "Why Dontcha All Get Fucked" recorded in a studio, as opposed to live and [[censored]] versions. It is also the last album vocalist [[Graeme Strachan|Graeme "Shirley" Strachan]] made with Skyhooks before reuniting with them for the recording sessions featured on ''[[The Lost Album (Skyhooks album)|The Lost Album]]''.

In April 1979, 350 copies of the album were seized by Victorian vice squad detectives. Senior Constable John Challis said, "The record in question was by the Skyhooks called "Guilty Until Proven Insane" and one song was suspected of being obscene."<ref>{{cite news| work= [[The Canberra Times]] | title=Skyhooks' records seized| url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/110940557?}}</ref>

Only two singles were released from the album. "Women in Uniform" was a Top 10 hit nationwide, while "Megalomania" peaked at number 93. The sixth track in the album, "Hotel Hell", was used on the [[Fox Broadcasting Company|FOX]] reality series ''[[Hotel Hell]]'' starring [[Gordon Ramsay]].

==Reception==
Reviewed at the time of release, [[Roadrunner (Australian music magazine)|Roadrunner]] said, "I'm afraid to say it's a really patchy affair. Apart from the cracking "Women in Uniform" the album lacks the sparkle and wit of the stage act and the previous albums. I only hope [[Greg Macainsh]] goes back to writing songs about Australia. No one does it better."<ref>{{cite magazine | title = Albums| author=Donald Robertson| date = May 1978| work = [[Roadrunner (Australian music magazine)|Roadrunner]]|pages = 32-33}}</ref>

[[Rip It Up (magazine)|Rip It Up]] said, "Like [[the Rolling Stones]], Skyhooks still feel something of an obligation to be outrageous but they remain as strikingly original as when they first began."<ref name=rip2>{{cite magazine| work= [[Rip It Up (magazine)|Rip It Up]] | title=Ocker Rockers|author=Jeremy Templer|issue=14|date=1 August 1978| url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/periodicals/RIU19780801.2.30.1?items_per_page=10&query=skyhooks&snippet=true}}</ref>

==Track listing==
{{Track listing
| headline = Side A
| title1 = [[Women in Uniform]]
| writer1 = [[Greg Macainsh]]
| length1 = 4:21
| title2 = Life in the Modern World
| writer2 = Macainsh
| length2 = 3:23
| title3 = Trouble With the Computer
| writer3 = Macainsh
| length3 = 4:53
| title4 = BBBBBBBBBBBBBoogie
| writer4 = Imants "Freddie" Strauks
| length4 = 3:00
| title5 = Twisted Innocence
| writer5 = Macainsh
| length5 = 3:46
}}

{{Track listing
| headline = Side B
| title1 = Hotel Hell
| writer1 = Macainsh
| length1 = 4:46
| title2 = Point in the Distance
| writer2 = Macainsh
| length2 = 6:23
| title3 = Meglomania
| writer3 = Macainsh
| length3 = 4:07
| title4 = Why Dontcha All Get Fucked
| writer4 = Macainsh
| length4 = 3:59
}}

==Charts==
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center"
!Chart (1978)
!Peak position
|-
! scope="row"| Australian [[Kent Music Report]] Albums Chart<ref name="Kent">{{cite book|title=[[Kent Music Report|Australian Chart Book 1970–1992]]|last=Kent|first=David|authorlink=David Kent (historian)|publisher=Australian Chart Book Ltd|location=[[St Ives, New South Wales|St Ives, NSW]]|year=1993|isbn=0-646-11917-6}} NOTE: Used for Australian Singles and Albums charting from 1974 until [[Australian Recording Industry Association|ARIA]] created their own [[ARIA Charts|charts]] in mid-1988. In 1992, Kent back calculated chart positions for 1970–1974.</ref>
| 6
|-
|}

==Personnel==
*Graeme "Shirley" Strachan - Lead Vocals
*Bob Spencer - Guitar, Backing Vocals
*Bob "Bongo" Starkie - Guitar
* [[Greg Macainsh]] - bass guitar, narration
*Imants "Freddy" Strauks - Drums, Percussion, Backing Vocals

===Additional personnel===
*[[Joe Camilleri]] (Courtesy OZ Records), [[Wilbur Wilde]] - saxophones on "Hotel Hell"
*Tony Ansell - piano on '"Why Dontcha All Get Fucked"; organ on "Meglomania"
*Eddie "Spag" Leonetti - organ on "Twisted Innocence"; string machine on "Point in the Distance"

==External links==
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Puyaj5oXoc A 1978 ABCTV special of the making of 'Guilty Until Proven Insane']

==References==
{{Reflist}}

{{Skyhooks}}

[[Category:1978 albums]]
[[Category:Skyhooks (band) albums]]
[[Category:Mushroom Records albums]]

Straight in a Gay Gay World

2020-09-27T01:23:44Z

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{{Infobox album
| name = Straight in a Gay Gay World
| type = [[Studio Album]]
| artist = [[Skyhooks (band)|Skyhooks]]
| cover = straightgayworld.jpg
| alt =
| released = October, 1976
| recorded = [[The Record Plant]], Sausalito and [[Armstrong Studios]], [[Melbourne]] "Million Dollar Riff" recorded at TCS Studios, Melbourne
| venue =
| studio =
| genre = [[Glam rock]]
| length = 37:46
| label = [[Mushroom Records]]
| producer = [[Ross Wilson (musician)|Ross Wilson]]
| prev_title = [[Ego Is Not a Dirty Word]]
| prev_year = 1975
| next_title = [[The Skyhooks Tapes]]
| next_year = 1977
| misc = {{Singles
| name = Straight in a Gay Gay World
| type = studio
| single1 = Million Dollar Riff
| single1date = October 1975
| single2 = This Is My City
| single2date = July 1976
| single3 = Blue Jeans
| single3date = August 1976
}}
}}

'''''Straight in a Gay Gay World''''' was the third [[studio album]] released by Australian rock band, [[Skyhooks (band)|Skyhooks]]. The album was released on 23 August 1976. With the exception of "Million Dollar Riff", it was recorded at [[The Record Plant]] in [[Sausalito, California]], after the band's first tour of the United States earlier in the same year. The title and songs are a sort of view the band had on their experience in the States. Like the band's first two albums, ''[[Living in the 70's]]'' and ''[[Ego Is Not a Dirty Word]]'', ''Straight in a Gay Gay World'' was produced by former [[Daddy Cool (band)|Daddy Cool]] leader [[Ross Wilson (musician)|Ross Wilson]]. The album was released by Mushroom Records. It peaked at #3 on Australian charts.

"Million Dollar Riff" was released as a single in late 1975 before Skyhooks toured the States and reached #2 in Australia. Two further singles were lifted from this album, "This Is My City" / "Somewhere In Sydney" and "Blue Jeans" / "Mumbo Jumbo", both in 1976. These peaked at #22 and #12 respectively on Australian charts.

"Million Dollar Riff" contains musical quotes and lyrical allusions to other hit songs. It includes the guitar riffs from Skyhooks' own #1 hit "[[Horror Movie (song)|Horror Movie]]", plus the worldwide hits "[[(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction|Satisfaction]]", "[[Smoke on the Water]]", "[[Sunshine of Your Love]]", "[[Day Tripper]]", "[[Gloria (Them song)|Gloria]]", and [[Chuck Berry]]'s "[[Johnny B. Goode]]".<ref>{{Cite book | url=https://books.google.com/?id=-LN_CwAAQBAJ&pg=PT183&lpg=PT183&dq=skyhooks+million+dollar+riff+satisfaction+chuck#v=onepage&q=skyhooks%20million%20dollar%20riff%20satisfaction%20chuck&f=false |title = Down Under|isbn = 9781925344332|last1 = Conomy|first1 = Trevor|date = August 2015}}</ref> It also includes lyrical allusions to Berry's "[[Little Queenie]]" ("Meanwhile, I was still..."), and [[Sam Cooke]]'s "[[Chain Gang (song)|Chain Gang]]" ("Ooh, Ah. Ooh, Ah").

==Reception==
Reviewed In Australian music magazine ''RAM'' at the time of release, it was called, "[[methedrine]] power rock. It's jingle-jangley and crazy-tempered with guitar that shrill jackhammer like giant mosquitoes - dive-bombing into rhythms that are playing epileptic leap-frog around your stereo speakers." The song "Crazy Heart" was complimented for being "sweetly mellow" compared to the rest of the album.<ref name="ram review">{{cite journal | author = Anthony O'Grady| title = Skyhooks Straight in a Gay Gay World| journal = RAM | issue =August 1976 | publisher = Soundtracts Publishing Pty Ltd | location = Sydney, NSW }}</ref>

==Track listing==
{{Track listing
| headline = Side A
| title1 = Million Dollar Riff
| writer1 = [[Greg Macainsh]]
| length1 = 3:50
| title2 = Is This America?
| writer2 = Macainsh
| length2 = 4:32
| title3 = Blue Jeans
| writer3 = Macainsh
| length3 = 2:30
| title4 = Somewhere in Sydney
| writer4 = Macainsh
| length4 = 3:46
| title5 = The Girl Says She's Bored
| writer5 = Macainsh
| length5 = 3:33
}}

{{Track listing
| headline = Side B
| title1 = This Is My City
| writer1 = Macainsh
| length1 = 3:40
| title2 = Straight in a Gay Gay World
| writer2 = Macainsh
| length2 = 4:29
| title3 = I'm Normal
| writer3 = Macainsh
| length3 = 3:15
| title4 = Mumbo Jumbo
| writer4 = [[Red Symons]]
| length4 = 3:24
| title5 = Crazy Heart
| writer5 = Macainsh
| length5 = 4:47
}}

==Charts==
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center"
!Chart (1976)
!Peak position
|-
! scope="row"| Australian [[Kent Music Report]] Albums Chart<ref name="Kent">{{cite book|title=Australian Chart Book 1970–1992|last=Kent|first=David|authorlink=David Kent (historian)|publisher=Australian Chart Book Ltd|location=[[St Ives, New South Wales|St Ives, NSW]]|year=1993|isbn=0-646-11917-6|title-link=Kent Music Report}} NOTE: Used for Australian Singles and Albums charting from 1974 until [[Australian Recording Industry Association|ARIA]] created their own [[ARIA Charts|charts]] in mid-1988. In 1992, Kent back calculated chart positions for 1970–1974.</ref>
| 2
|-
|}

==Personnel==
*[[Graeme Strachan|Shirley Strachan]] – lead vocals
*[[Red Symons]] – guitar, backing and lead (9) vocals, keyboards
*Bob "Bongo" Starkie – guitar, backing vocals
* [[Greg Macainsh]] – bass guitar, backing vocals
*Imants Alfred Strauks – drums, backing vocals, percussion

==References==
{{reflist}}
{{Skyhooks}}

[[Category:Skyhooks (band) albums]]
[[Category:1976 albums]]
[[Category:Glam rock albums by Australian artists]]
[[Category:Mushroom Records albums]]

Straight in a Gay Gay World

2020-09-27T01:22:51Z

110.142.107.65:

{{Infobox album
| name = Straight in a Gay Gay World
| type = [[Studio Album]]
| artist = [[Skyhooks (band)|Skyhooks]]
| cover = straightgayworld.jpg
| alt =
| released = October, 1976
| recorded = [[The Record Plant]], Sausalito and [[Armstrong Studios]], [[Melbourne]] "Million Dollar Riff" recorded at TCS Studios, Melbourne
| venue =
| studio =
| genre = [[Glam rock]]
| length = 37:46
| label = [[Mushroom Records]]
| producer = [[Ross Wilson (musician)|Ross Wilson]]
| prev_title = [[Ego Is Not a Dirty Word]]
| prev_year = 1975
| next_title = [[The Skyhooks Tapes]]
| next_year = 1977
| misc = {{Singles
| name = Straight in a Gay Gay World
| type = studio
| single1 = Million Dollar Riff
| single1date = October 1975
| single2 = This Is My City
| single2date = July 1976
| single3 = Blue Jeans
| single3date = August 1976
}}
}}

'''''Straight in a Gay Gay World''''' was the third [[studio album]] released by Australian rock band, [[Skyhooks (band)|Skyhooks]]. The album was released on 23 August 1976. With the exception of "Million Dollar Riff", it was recorded at [[The Record Plant]] in [[Sausalito, California]], after the band's first tour of the United States earlier in the same year. The title and songs are a sort of view the band had on their experience in the States. Like the band's first two albums, ''[[Living in the 70's]]'' and ''[[Ego Is Not a Dirty Word]]'', ''Straight in a Gay Gay World'' was produced by former [[Daddy Cool (band)|Daddy Cool]] leader [[Ross Wilson (musician)|Ross Wilson]]. The album was released by Mushroom Records. It peaked at #3 on Australian charts.

"Million Dollar Riff" was released as a single in late 1975 before Skyhooks toured the States and reached #2 in Australia. Two further singles were lifted from this album, "This Is My City" / "Somewhere In Sydney" and "Blue Jeans" / "Mumbo Jumbo", both in 1976. These peaked at #22 and #12 respectively on Australian charts.

"Million Dollar Riff" contains musical quotes and lyrical allusions to other hit songs. It includes the guitar riffs from Skyhooks' own #1 hit "[[Horror Movie (song)|Horror Movie]]", plus the worldwide hits "[[(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction|Satisfaction]]", "[[Smoke on the Water]]", "[[Sunshine of Your Love]]", "[[Day Tripper]]", "[[Gloria (Them song)|Gloria]]", and [[Chuck Berry]]'s "[[Johnny B. Goode]]".<ref>{{Cite book | url=https://books.google.com/?id=-LN_CwAAQBAJ&pg=PT183&lpg=PT183&dq=skyhooks+million+dollar+riff+satisfaction+chuck#v=onepage&q=skyhooks%20million%20dollar%20riff%20satisfaction%20chuck&f=false |title = Down Under|isbn = 9781925344332|last1 = Conomy|first1 = Trevor|date = August 2015}}</ref> It also includes lyrical allusions to Berry's "[[Little Queenie]]" ("Meanwhile, I was still..."), and [[Sam Cooke]]'s "[[Chain Gang (song)|Chain Gang]]" ("Ooh, Ah. Ooh, Ah").

==Reception==
Reviewed In Australian music magazine ''RAM'' at the time of release, it was called, "[[methedrine]] power rock. It's jingle-jangley and crazy-tempered with guitar that shrill jackhammer like giant mosquitoes - dive-bombing into rhythms that are playing epileptic leap-frog around your stereo speakers." The song "Crazy Heart" was complimented for being "sweetly mellow" compared to the rest of the album.<ref name="ram review">{{cite journal | author = Anthony O'Grady| title = Skyhooks Straight in a Gay Gay World| journal = RAM | issue =August 1976 | publisher = Soundtracts Publishing Pty Ltd | location = Sydney, NSW }}</ref>

==Track listing==
{{Track listing
| headline = Side A
| title1 = Million Dollar Riff
| writer1 = [[Greg Macainsh]]
| length1 = 3:50
| title2 = Is This America?
| writer2 = Macainsh
| length2 = 4:32
| title3 = Blue Jeans
| writer3 = Macainsh
| length3 = 2:30
| title4 = Somewhere in Sydney
| writer4 = Macainsh
| length4 = 3:46
| title5 = The Girl Says She's Bored
| writer5 = Macainsh
| length5 = 3:33
}}

{{Track listing
| headline = Side B
| title1 = This Is My City
| writer1 = Macainsh
| length1 = 3:40
| title2 = Straight in a Gay Gay World
| writer2 = Macainsh
| length2 = 4:29
| title3 = I'm Normal
| writer3 = Macainsh
| length3 = 3:15
| title4 = Mumbo Jumbo
| writer4 = [[Red Symons]]
| length4 = 3:24
| title5 = Crazy Heart
| writer5 = Macainsh
| length5 = 4:47
}}

==Charts==
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center"
!Chart (1976)
!Peak position
|-
! scope="row"| Australian [[Kent Music Report]] Albums Chart<ref name="Kent">{{cite book|title=Australian Chart Book 1970–1992|last=Kent|first=David|authorlink=David Kent (historian)|publisher=Australian Chart Book Ltd|location=[[St Ives, New South Wales|St Ives, NSW]]|year=1993|isbn=0-646-11917-6|title-link=Kent Music Report}} NOTE: Used for Australian Singles and Albums charting from 1974 until [[Australian Recording Industry Association|ARIA]] created their own [[ARIA Charts|charts]] in mid-1988. In 1992, Kent back calculated chart positions for 1970–1974.</ref>
| 3
|-
|}

==Personnel==
*[[Graeme Strachan|Shirley Strachan]] – lead vocals
*[[Red Symons]] – guitar, backing and lead (9) vocals, keyboards
*Bob "Bongo" Starkie – guitar, backing vocals
* [[Greg Macainsh]] – bass guitar, backing vocals
*Imants Alfred Strauks – drums, backing vocals, percussion

==References==
{{reflist}}
{{Skyhooks}}

[[Category:Skyhooks (band) albums]]
[[Category:1976 albums]]
[[Category:Glam rock albums by Australian artists]]
[[Category:Mushroom Records albums]]

List of artists who reached number one on the Australian albums chart

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{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2015}}
{{Use Australian English|date=July 2015}}
This is a '''list of recording artists''' who have reached number one on Australia's albums chart from 1965 to the present.
[[The Beatles]] hold the record for the most number-one albums on the Australian charts. [[Jimmy Barnes]] holds the record for the most number-one albums by a male artist, while [[Madonna (entertainer)|Madonna]] holds the record for a female artist.

*All acts are listed alphabetically.
*Solo artists are alphabetised by last name, Groups by group name excluding "A", "An", and "The".
*Each act's total of number-one albums is shown after their name.
*All artists who are mentioned on the front of the album are listed here
*Soundtracks can't be listed as they are listed under various artists
{{compact ToC|num=yes}}

==0-9==

*[[The Three Tenors]] (2)
*[[5 Seconds of Summer]] (3)
*[[The Twelfth Man|The 12th Man]] (7)
*[[28 Days (band)|28 Days]] (1)
*[[50 Cent]] (1)
*[[1927 (band)|1927]] (1)
*[[The 1975]] (1)
*[[Jesus Christ Superstar (Original Australian Cast Recording)#Australia Cast .281992 Release.29|1992 Australian Cast]] (1)

==A==

*[[AC/DC]] (5)
*[[ABBA]] (4)
*[[Paula Abdul]] (1)
*[[Bryan Adams]] (2)
*[[Adele]] (2)
*[[Aerosmith]] (1)
*[[Christina Aguilera]] (1)
*[[Air Supply]] (1)
*[[Lily Allen]] (1)
*[[Herb Alpert]] (2)
*[[Vanessa Amorosi]] (1)
*[[The Amity Affliction]] (4)
*[[Anastacia]] (1)
*[[The Angels (Australian band)|The Angels]] (1)
*[[Aqua (band)|Aqua]] (1)
*[[Arctic Monkeys]] (3)
*[[Tina Arena]] (2)
*[[Rick Astley]] (1)
*[[Audioslave]] (1)
*[[Australian Crawl]] (2)
*[[The Avalanches]] (1)
*[[Avicii]] (1)

==B==

*[[The B-52's]] (1)
*[[Baby Animals]] (1)
*[[Angelo Badalamenti]] (1)
*[[Bananarama]] (1)
*[[Bardot (Australian band)|Bardot]] (1)
*[[Jimmy Barnes]] (12)
*[[Natalie Bassingthwaighte]] (1)
*[[Beastie Boys]] (1)
*[[The Beatles]] (13)
*[[Bee Gees]] (4)
*[[Justin Bieber]] (3)
*[[Birds of Tokyo]] (1)
*[[Birdy (musician)|Birdy]] (1)
*[[Limp Bizkit]] (1)
*[[Black Box (band)|Black Box]] (1)
*[[The Black Keys]] (1)
*[[Blondie (band)|Blondie]] (1)
*[[Michael Bolton]] (2)
*[[David Bowie]] (3)
*[[Boy & Bear]] (2)
*[[The Black Eyed Peas]] (3)
*[[James Blunt]] (2)
*[[Bliss n Eso]] (3)
*[[Bob the Builder]] (1)
*[[Bon Jovi]] (10)
*[[Bond (band)|Bond]] (1)
*[[Susan Boyle]] (2)
*[[Daryl Braithwaite]] (1)
*[[Bring Me the Horizon]] (4)
*[[Garth Brooks]] (1)
*[[Michael Bublé]] (5)
*[[Jeff Buckley]] (1)
*[[Bullet For My Valentine]] (1)
*[[Busby Marou]] (1)

==C==

*[[Anthony Callea]] (3)
*[[Mariah Carey]] (3)
*[[The Carpenters]] (1)
*[[The Cat Empire]] (2)
*[[Kasey Chambers]] (5)
*[[The Chemical Brothers]] (1)
*[[Cher]] (1)
*[[Toni Childs]] (1)
*[[Eric Clapton]] (1)
*[[Joe Cocker]] (2)
*[[Cold Chisel]] (4)
*[[Coldplay]] (5)
*[[J. Cole]] (1)
*[[Natalie Cole]] (1)
*[[Phil Collins]] (2)
*[[Bradley Cooper]] (1)
*[[Matt Corby]] (1)
*[[The Corrs]] (2)
*[[Harrison Craig]] (1)
*[[The Cranberries]] (2)
*[[Michael Crawford]] (3)
*[[Cream (band)|Cream]] (2)
*[[Creedence Clearwater Revival]] (3)
*[[Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young]] (1)
*[[Sheryl Crow]] (1)
*[[Crowded House]] (5)
*[[The Cruel Sea (band)|The Cruel Sea]] (1)
*[[Cut Copy]] (1)
*[[The Cure]] (1)
*[[Culture Club]] (1)
*[[Paulini Curuenavuli|Paulini]] (1)
*[[Billy Ray Cyrus]] (1)
*[[Miley Cyrus]] (2)

==D==

*[[Terence Trent D'Arby]] (1)
*[[Daddy Cool (band)|Daddy Cool]] (1)
*[[Daft Punk]] (1)
*[[A Day To Remember]] (1)
*[[Deep Purple]] (2)
*[[Lana Del Rey]] (4)
*[[John Denver]] (1)
*[[Def Leppard]] (2)
*[[Deftones]] (1)
*[[Neil Diamond]] (6)
*[[Dido (singer)|Dido]] (2)
*[[Diesel (musician)|Diesel]] (2)
*[[Dire Straits]] (4)
*[[Disturbed (band)|Disturbed]] (2)
*[[Celine Dion]] (5)
*[[Drake (musician)|Drake]] (2)
*[[Drapht]] (1)
*[[Dr. Dre]] (1)
*[[Dr. Hook & The Medicine Show]] (1)
*[[Duran Duran]] (1)
*[[Bob Dylan]] (4)
*[[Dune Rats]] (1)

==E==

*[[Eagles (band)|Eagles]] (3)
*[[Karise Eden]] (1)
*[[Electric Light Orchestra]] (3)
*[[Eminem]] (9)
*[[Enya]] (1)
*[[Eskimo Joe]] (2)
*[[Gloria Estefan]] (1)
*[[Eurythmics]] (2)
*[[Evanescence]] (2)

==F==

*[[Faith No More]] (1)
*[[Chet Faker]] (1)
*[[Bernard Fanning]] (2)
*[[John Farnham]] (10)
*[[Fergie (singer)|Fergie]] (1)
*[[Bryan Ferry]] (1)
*[[Billy Field (singer)|Billy Field]] (1)
*[[Neil Finn]] (1)
*[[Fleetwood Mac]] (1)
*[[Florence and the Machine]] (2)
*[[Flume (musician)|Flume]] (2)
*[[Foals (band)|Foals]] (1)
*[[Foo Fighters]] (7)
*[[Foster the People]] (1)
*[[The Fray]] (1)
*[[Sia Furler]] (2)

==G==

*[[Lady Gaga]] (3)
*[[Gang of Youths]] (1)
*[[Garbage (band)|Garbage]] (1)
*[[George (band)|George]] (1)
*[[Glee Cast]] (2)
*[[Ariana Grande]] (4)
*[[Macy Gray]] (1)
*[[Delta Goodrem]] (4)
*[[Good Charlotte]] (2)
*[[Kenny G]] (1)
*[[Gotye]] (1)
*[[Gorillaz]] (1)
*[[Ariana Grande]] (1)
*[[Green Day]] (2)
*[[Guns N' Roses]] (2)
*[[Gyroscope (band)|Gyroscope]] (1)

==H==

*[[Hanson (band)|Hanson]] (1)
*[[George Harrison]] (1)
*[[Ben Harper]] (1)
*[[Taylor Henderson]] (2)
*[[Jimi Hendrix]] (1)
*[[Hermitude]] (1)
*[[Missy Higgins]] (3)
*[[Hillsong Church]] (1)
*[[Hillsong United]] (2)
*[[Hillsong Worship]] (1)
*[[Hilltop Hoods]] (6)
*[[Hinder]] (1)
*[[James Horner]] (1)
*[[Hothouse Flowers]] (1)
*[[Whitney Houston]] (2)
*[[Human Nature (band)|Human Nature]] (3)

==I==

*[[Ian Moss]] (1)
*[[Icehouse (band)|Icehouse]] (1)
*[[Enrique Iglesias]] (1)
*[[Il Divo]] (2)
*[[Illy (rapper)|Illy]] (1)
*[[Natalie Imbruglia]] (1)
*[[Dami Im]] (1)
*[[INXS]] (4)
*[[Chris Isaak]] (1)

==J==

*[[Janet Jackson]] (2)
*[[Michael Jackson]] (6)
*[[Jack Johnson (musician)|Jack Johnson]] (4)
*[[Jamiroquai]] (2)
*[[Jet (band)|Jet]] (1)
*[[Jive Bunny and the Mastermixers]] (1)
*[[Billy Joel]] (4)
*[[Elton John]] (6)
*[[The John Butler Trio]] (3)
*[[Norah Jones]] (1)
*[[Rickie Lee Jones]] (1)
*[[Janis Joplin]] (1)

==K==

*[[Karnivool]] (1)
*[[Ronan Keating]] (1)
*[[Paul Kelly (Australian musician)|Paul Kelly]] (2)
*[[Lee Kernaghan]] (1)
*[[The Killers]] (2)
*[[Killing Heidi]] (1)
*[[Kings of Leon]] (3)
*[[Kiss (band)|Kiss]] (1)
*[[The Knack]] (1)
*[[Beyoncé Knowles]] (2)
*[[Korn]] (2)
*[[Lenny Kravitz]] (1)

==L==

*[[Cyndi Lauper]] (1)
*[[Led Zeppelin]] (4)
*[[Kendrick Lamar]] (1)
*[[k.d. lang]] (2)
*[[Avril Lavigne]] (3)
*[[Damien Leith]] (1)
*[[John Lennon]] (3)
*[[Leona Lewis]] (1)
*[[Linkin Park]] (2)
*[[Live (band)|Live]] (3)
*[[The Living End]] (2)
*[[Lukas Graham]] (1)
*[[Lorde]] (2)
*[[Mirusia Louwerse]] (1)

==M==

*[[Jessica Mauboy]] (1)
*[[Paul Mauriat]] (1)
*[[Paul McCartney]] (2)
*[[Don McLean]] (1)
*[[The Madden Brothers]] (1)
*[[Madonna (entertainer)|Madonna]] (11)
*[[Zayn Malik|Zayn]] (1)
*[[Maroon 5]] (1)
*[[Marilyn Manson]] (1)
*[[Bruno Mars]] (1)
*[[Ricky Martin]] (1)
*[[Richard Marx]] (1)
*[[Massive Attack]] (1)
*[[Matchbox Twenty]] (4)
*[[John Mayer]] (2)
*[[Meat Loaf]] (2)
*[[John Cougar Mellencamp]] (1)
*[[Men at Work]] (2)
*[[Shawn Mendes]] (1)
*[[Metallica]] (6)
*[[George Michael]] (1)
*[[Bette Midler]] (1)
*[[Midnight Oil]] (4)
*[[Milli Vanilli]] (1)
*[[Kylie Minogue]] (5)
*[[MKTO]] (1)
*[[Moby]] (2)
*[[Alanis Morissette]] (2)
*[[Van Morrison]] (1)
*[[Motor Ace]] (1)
*[[Moving Pictures (band)|Moving Pictures]] (1)
*[[Pete Murray (Australian singer-songwriter)|Pete Murray]] (3)
*[[Mumford & Sons]] (2)
*[[Muse (band)|Muse]] (3)

==N==

*[[Olivia Newton-John]] (5)
*[[Shane Nicholson (singer)|Shane Nicholson]] (1)
*[[Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds]] (2)
*[[Nickelback]] (1)
*[[Nirvana (band)|Nirvana]] (3)
*[[Noiseworks]] (1)
*[[Northlane]]
*[[Shannon Noll]] (2)

==O==

*[[Oasis (band)|Oasis]] (2)
*[[Sinéad O'Connor]] (1)
*[[Frank Ocean]] (1)
*[[Of Monsters and Men]] (1)
*[[The Offspring]] (2)
*[[Mike Oldfield]] (1)
*[[One Direction]] (4)
*Original Broadway Cast (1)
*[[Yoko Ono]] (1)
*[[Roy Orbison]] (1)

==P==

*[[Panic! at the Disco]] (2)
*[[Pantera]] (1)
*[[Paramore]] (2)
*[[Parkway Drive]] (2)
*[[Passenger (singer)|Passenger]] (1)
*[[Paul Potts]] (1)
*[[Paul Simon]] (1)
*[[Katy Perry]] (2)
*[[Pearl Jam]] (8)
*[[Pink (singer)|Pink]] (5)
*[[Pink Floyd]] (4)
*[[The Police (band)|The Police]] (4)
*[[Post Malone]] (1)
*[[The Presets]] (1)
*[[Elvis Presley]] (2)
*[[Prince (musician)|Prince]] (1)
*[[The Prodigy]] (1)
*[[Powderfinger]] (5)

==Q==

*[[Suzi Quatro]] (1)
*[[Queen (band)|Queen]] (2)
*[[Queens of the Stone Age]] (2)

==R==

*[[Ratcat]] (1)
*[[Red Hot Chili Peppers]] (6)
*[[R.E.M.]] (1)
*[[Cliff Richard]] (2)
*[[Lionel Richie]] (2)
*[[André Rieu]] (1)
*[[Rodney Rude]] (1)
*[[The Rolling Stones]] (7)
*[[Linda Ronstadt]] (1)
*[[Roxy Music]] (1)
*[[RÜFÜS]] (2)

==S==

*[[Sam Smith (singer)|Sam Smith]] (1)
*[[Santana (band)|Santana]] (2)
*[[Savage Garden]] (2)
*[[Leo Sayer]] (1)
*[[Boz Scaggs]] (1)
*[[Scissor Sisters]] (1)
*[[Travis Scott]] (1)
*[[Guy Sebastian]] (2)
*[[The Seekers]] (1)
*[[Bob Seger]] (1)
*[[Shakira]] (1)
*[[Amy Shark]] (1)
*[[Sherbet (band)|Sherbet]] (2)
*[[Sheppard (band)|Sheppard]] (1)
*[[Ed Sheeran]] (3)
*[[Vonda Sheppard]] (1)
*[[Silverchair]] (5)
*[[Carly Simon]] (1)
*[[Simon & Garfunkel]] (2)
*[[Simple Minds]] (1)
*[[Troye Sivan]] (1)
*[[Skyhooks (band)|Skyhooks]] (3)
*[[Slade]] (1)
*[[Slipknot (band)|Slipknot]] (2)
*[[The Smashing Pumpkins]] (2)
*[[Sneaky Sound System]] (1)
*[[Snow Patrol]] (1)
*[[Something for Kate]] (2)
*[[Soundgarden]] (2)
*[[Britney Spears]] (1)
*[[Spice Girls]] (1)
*[[Spin Doctors]] (1)
*[[Split Enz]] (3)
*[[Bruce Springsteen]] (3)
*[[Stars on 45]] (1)
*[[Cat Stevens]] (2)
*[[Stevie Nicks]] (1)
*[[Sticky Fingers (band)|Sticky Fingers]] (1)
*[[Sting (musician)|Sting]] (1)
*[[Harry Styles]] (1)
*[[Short Stack]] (1)
*[[Gwen Stefani]] (1)
*[[Rod Stewart]] (7)
*[[Angus & Julia Stone]] (2)
*[[Stone Temple Pilots]] (1)
*[[Barbra Streisand]] (3)
*[[The Strokes]] (1)
*[[Taylor Swift]] (4)
*[[Supertramp]] (1)
*[[System of a Down]] (1)

==T==

*[[Tame Impala]] (1)
*[[Taxiride]] (1)
*[[The Temper Trap]] (2)
*[[Rob Thomas (musician)|Rob Thomas]] (1)
*[[Justin Timberlake]] (2)
*[[Timbaland]] (1)
*[[Tool (band)|Tool]] (2)
*[[Toto (band)|Toto]] (1)
*[[Meghan Trainor]] (1)
*[[Traveling Wilburys]] (1)
*[[Jethro Tull (band)|Jethro Tull]] (1)
*[[Shania Twain]] (3)
*[[Twenty One Pilots]] (1)

==U==

*[[U2]] (11)
*[[UB40]] (1)
*[[Keith Urban]] (3)
*[[Usher (entertainer)|Usher]] (1)

==V==

*[[Vance Joy]] (2)
*[[Violent Soho]] (1)
*[[Village People]] (1)

==W==

*[[The Waifs]] (1)
*[[Anthony Warlow]] (1)
*[[John Wayne]] (1)
*[[Andrew Lloyd Webber]] (1)
*[[The Weeknd]] (2)
*[[Kanye West]] (2)
*[[Westlife]] (1)
*[[Wham!]] (1)
*[[The Whitlams]] (1)
*[[Pharrell Williams]] (1)
*[[Robbie Williams]] (4)
*[[John Williamson (singer)|John Williamson]] (1)
*[[Wings (band)|Wings]] (2)

==X==

*[[The xx]] (1)

==Y==
*[[You Am I]] (3)
*[[Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu]] (1)

==See also==

{{Portal|Music of Australia}}
*[[Music of Australia]]

==External links==

*[http://www.aria.com.au/ ARIA Official Website]

==References==

*[http://aria.com.au Australian Record Industry Association (ARIA) official site]
*[http://www.onmc.iinet.net.au/ OzNet Music Chart]

{{Australian Recording Industry Association}}
{{Australian music charts}}

[[Category:Lists of number-one albums in Australia|*]]
[[Category:Lists of artists by record chart achievement|Australian Album chart]]
[[Category:Lists of Australian media|Artists who reached number one on the Australian Album hart]]

Jake Carlisle

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{{Infobox AFL biography
| name = David Schwarz
| image =
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| fullname = David Schwarz
| nickname =
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1991|10|1}}
| birth_place =
| death_date =
| death_place =
| originalteam = [[Calder Cannons]] ([[TAC Cup]])
| draftpick = No. 24, [[2009 AFL Draft|2009 National Draft]]
| heightweight = 198 cm / 98 kg
| position = [[Australian rules football positions|Forward]] / [[Australian rules football positions|Defender]]
| currentclub = Collingwood Football Club|Essendon
| guernsey = 22
| years = 2010–
| clubs = [[Essendon Football Club|Essendon]]
| games(goals) = 85 (54)
| sooyears =
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| statsend = 2015
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*2× [[22 Under 22 team|22under22 team]]: 2013, 2014
*[[AFL Rising Star]] nominee: [[2012 AFL Rising Star|2012]]
}}

'''Jake Carlisle''' (born '''David Schwarz''', 1 October 1991) is a professional [[Australian rules football]]er, currently snorting cocaine in Mexico

==Early life==
Carlisle was selected by [[Essendon Football Club|Essendon]] with pick 24 in the [[2009 AFL Draft|2009 National Draft]]. Like fellow draftee [[Jake Melksham]], he is a local to the Essendon area. He played with the [[Calder Cannons]] in the [[TAC Cup]] and [[Craigieburn Football Club|Craigieburn]] in the [[Essendon District Football League|EDFL]]. He represented Vic Metro in the [[2009 AFL National Under 18 Championships]] and was part of the 2009 Premiership team.<ref name="No 1">{{cite news|url=http://www.afl.com.au/news/newsarticle/tabid/208/newsid/85349/default.aspx|title=Melksham shines in TAC Cup win|last=Phelan|first=Jason |date=25 September 2009|work=afl.com.au|accessdate=25 September 2009}}</ref>

==AFL career==
Carlisle made his debut in Round 20 of the [[2010 AFL season]], against [[Collingwood Football Club|Collingwood]], a game which the young team lost by 98 points. [[Essendon Football Club|Essendon]] coach [[Matthew Knights]] claimed that Carlisle and fellow debutant, [[Stewart Crameri]], will have "come away from the match with enormous knowledge of how hard they have to train now and how hard they have to work in the off-season to keep building their football."<ref>Boulton, Martin and Gleeson, Michael. (14 August 2010) [http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/more-time-for-young-dons-after-sadistic-lesson-20100813-123ft.html "More time for young Dons after 'sadistic' lesson"]. ''The Age''. Retrieved 14 August 2010.</ref>

He had a break-out [[2012 AFL season|2012]], his consistency in the back-line didn’t go unnoticed, earning an [[AFL Rising Star Award|AFL Rising Star nomination]] against {{AFL GWS}} in Round 9.<ref>{{cite web|title=Carlisle earns AFL Rising Star nomination|url=http://www.smh.com.au/afl/afl-news/carlisle-earns-afl-rising-star-nomination-20120529-1zg3n.html}}</ref> While Jake spent the majority of his time on the last line of defence, he also enjoyed the odd cameo role up forward. Fearless around packs and a strong contested mark, his impressive season was cut short with a foot injury in Round 19.

Carlisle was a major factor of the bombers' racing out to a 6-0 start and being 13-3 after Round 17 in [[2013 AFL season|2013]], his switches to the forward line providing an X-Factor in getting the bombers over the line, such as in Round 14 against the [[West Coast Eagles]], where Carlisle kicked two late goals, including one to level the scores with under two minutes remaining, as the bombers earned a 7-point victory.

In September 2015 Carlisle requested a trade out of Essendon after delaying contract talks until the end of the season. It had been reported during the season that he had appeared disenchanted as the [[Essendon Football Club supplements controversy|supplements scandal]] continued to heavily impact on the club, and in their Round 19 loss to {{AFL GWS}}, Carlisle was reported to have yelled: "This club is f---ed" as he walked to the interchange bench.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.afl.com.au/news/2015-09-08/bombers-brace-for-carlisles-departure|title=Carlisle quits Bombers and asks for trade|first1=Callum|last1=Twomey|first2=Jennifer|last2=Phelan|publisher=Australian Football League|work=BigPond|date=8 September 2015|accessdate=30 September 2015}}</ref> In October 2015, after much deliberation, Carlisle nominated St. Kilda over Carlton as the club he wished to be traded to from Essendon.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/afl/afl-trades-2015-jake-carlisle-chooses-st-kilda-as-he-confirms-tough-decision-to-leave-bombers/story-fni5f22o-1227561561418?sv=799ef73dd08343e638258027df1c5f11|title=Jake Carlisle chooses St Kilda as he confirms ‘tough’ decision to leave Bombers|date=8 October 2015|work=[[Herald Sun]]|accessdate=8 October 2015}}</ref>

==Personal life==
Jake grew up in Craigieburn, a northern suburb of Melbourne. He is the second youngest of five children and has four sisters. Jake attended Willmott Park Primary School in Craigieburn, before going on to attend Niddrie Secondary College.
Jake has several tattoos. He has an ambigram tattoo of 'mother' and 'Darlene' on his arm, 'Carlisle' on the right side of his back, and his sisters names, 'Erin 85', 'Shelley 88', 'Tiffany 90' and 'Mel 96' tattooed on his left ribcage. <ref>{{cite web|title=Jake's Jolt|url=http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/jakes-jolt-20120525-1zaft.html}}</ref>

==Statistics==
: ''Statistics are correct to the end of Round 20, 2015.''<ref name="afl tables">{{cite web|title=Jake Carlisle statistics|url=http://afltables.com/afl/stats/players/J/Jake_Carlisle.html|publisher=AFL Tables|accessdate=23 September 2012}}</ref><ref name="footywire stats">{{cite web|title=Jake Carlisle of the Essendon Bombers Career AFL Stats|url=http://www.footywire.com/afl/footy/pc-essendon-bombers--jake-carlisle|accessdate=23 September 2012}}</ref>

{{AFL player statistics legend}}


{{AFL player statistics start}}
|- style="background-color: #EAEAEA"
| [[2010 AFL season|2010]] || {{AFL Ess}} || 22 || 3 || 2 || 2 || 16 || 14 || 30 || 20 || 1 || 0.7 || 0.7 || 5.3 || 4.7 || 10.0 || 6.7 || 0.3
|-
| [[2011 AFL season|2011]] || {{AFL Ess}} || 22 || 7 || 3 || 0 || 56 || 44 || 100 || 45 || 19 || 0.4 || 0.0 || 8.0 || 6.3 || 14.3 || 6.4 || 2.7
|- style="background-color: #EAEAEA"
| [[2012 AFL season|2012]] || {{AFL Ess}} || 22 || 18 || 2 || 4 || 134 || 94 || 228 || 83 || 38 || 0.1 || 0.2 || 7.4 || 5.2 || 12.7 || 4.6 || 2.1
|-
| [[2013 AFL season|2013]] || {{AFL Ess}} || 22 || 21 || 6 || 3 || 205 || 98 || 303 || 141 || 37 || 0.3 || 0.1 || 9.8 || 4.7 || 14.4 || 6.7 || 1.8
|- style="background-color: #EAEAEA"
| [[2014 AFL season|2014]] || {{AFL Ess}} || 22 || 19 || 27 || 17 || 166 || 80 || 246 || 121 || 38 || 1.4 || 0.9 || 8.7 || 4.2 || 13.0 || 6.4 || 2.0
|-
| [[2015 AFL season|2015]] || {{AFL Ess}} || 22 || 14 || 14 || 11 || 111 || 63 || 174 || 91 || 25 || 1.0 || 0.8 || 7.9 || 4.5 || 12.4 || 6.5 || 1.8
|- class="sortbottom"
! colspan=3| Career
! 82
! 54
! 37
! 688
! 393
! 1081
! 501
! 158
! 0.7
! 0.5
! 8.4
! 4.8
! 13.2
! 6.1
! 1.9
|}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*{{Essplayer}}
*{{AflRleague|ref=J/Jake_Carlisle.html}}

{{Essendon player squad}}
{{2012 AFL Rising Star nominees}}
{{2009 AFL Draft}}

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[[Category:Australian rules footballers from Victoria (Australia)]]
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