Skyhooks
April 16th 2010 21:53
The complete lyrics of Songs by Skyhooks are available here; if you don't know the 1970's Australian glam band, check it out.
In the mid Seventies Skyhooks basically gave the Australian Music Industry the enema it had been needing. For too long many Australian bands spent hours copying their UK/USA cousins,Australian content in songs was far and few,and the biggest local selling album was by Daddy Cool which had sold an unheard of 50,000 lps.
Skyhooks were cheeky,brash,colourful,wore makeup (many years before Kiss were conceived),songwriter Greg Macainsh with a grab bag of amazing tunes-many sprinkled with Melbourne place names and Australian themes, put together the band that would change the musical history of our country. It lit the fuse that put Australian bands back on the front covers of newspapers and Australian music on the shelves of record shops.
Their debut album "Living in the Seventies" went on to sell 300,000 albums (the equivalent of Twenty Gold awards) lodging itself firmly at the number one spot on the Australian charts for many months.
They appeared on Australian tv on the first day of colour transmission, shocked the parents and became pin up heroes for a generation. Their lead singer was called Shirley because of HIS curly locks, guitarist Red Symons in Red satin and matching cape, flicking his tongue at the masses while a giant Phallic Twistie Mushroom explodes over the crowds during his anthem to masturbation ("Smut"). Guitarist Bob Starkie graduated from the Keith Richards/Chuck Berry School of Rock (with honours) his long black curls hanging over his lizard- necked jumpsuit. Bassist and Songwriter, Greg Macainsh platinum silver hair,long drop earrings hanging from BOTH ears, wearing a yellow suit (matching cowboy hat) biting the thick bass strings on his sexist nude bass.....and who was it that said that all drummers were the same. Fred Strauks, plugs in his space suit,the stage lights drop and he flickers on and off during his drum solo. If it were any other bands the theatrics would overshadow the music.
Skyhooks (thankfully) were not just another band. A Complete Hook History by Peter Green
Their debut album "Living in the Seventies" went on to sell 300,000 albums (the equivalent of Twenty Gold awards) lodging itself firmly at the number one spot on the Australian charts for many months.
They appeared on Australian tv on the first day of colour transmission, shocked the parents and became pin up heroes for a generation. Their lead singer was called Shirley because of HIS curly locks, guitarist Red Symons in Red satin and matching cape, flicking his tongue at the masses while a giant Phallic Twistie Mushroom explodes over the crowds during his anthem to masturbation ("Smut"). Guitarist Bob Starkie graduated from the Keith Richards/Chuck Berry School of Rock (with honours) his long black curls hanging over his lizard- necked jumpsuit. Bassist and Songwriter, Greg Macainsh platinum silver hair,long drop earrings hanging from BOTH ears, wearing a yellow suit (matching cowboy hat) biting the thick bass strings on his sexist nude bass.....and who was it that said that all drummers were the same. Fred Strauks, plugs in his space suit,the stage lights drop and he flickers on and off during his drum solo. If it were any other bands the theatrics would overshadow the music.
Skyhooks (thankfully) were not just another band. A Complete Hook History by Peter Green
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