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MILESTONES AND MEMORIES
Thirty years ago this week, Mi-Sex singer Steve Gilpin died, aged 42. He’d been in a coma for six weeks after a car accident near Byron Bay.
The first big international rock ’n’ roll tour hit Australia this week in 1957. The “Big Show” featured Bill Haley and His Comets, The Platters, LaVern Baker, Big Joe Turner and Freddie Bell and the Bell Boys. The first show was at the Newcastle Stadium.
Dannii Minogue married Julian McMahon, the son of former Prime Minister Billy McMahon, this week in 1994. They would divorce in 1995.
Happy Birthday to The Living End singer Chris Cheney, who is 47 on January 2. The Seekers’ Athol Guy is 82 on January 5. And Megan Washington is 36 on January 7.
And we remember some legends, including Shirley Strachan (real name: Graeme Strachan). The Skyhooks singer would have been 70 on January 2. Doc Neeson (real name: Bernard Neeson) would have been 75 on January 4. AC/DC’s Malcolm Young would have been 69 on January 6. And Crowded House drummer Paul Hester would have been 63 on January 8.
CHART WRAP 2021
The Top 40 remains a wasteland for Aussie singles. Just 23 Australian songs made the ARIA Top 40 in 2021 (compared to 26 in 2020). Only seven homegrown hits reached the Top 10, spearheaded by The Kid Laroi’s Stay, which spent 14 weeks at number one, and Without You, which spent one week on top.
Fourteen Aussie albums hit number one in 2021; just one – Amy Shark’s Cry Forever – spent longer than one week on top. Sixty-four Aussie albums hit the Top 10 (compared to 72 in 2020), while 127 Aussie albums cracked the Top 40 (131 in 2020).
CHART WATCH
The first chart for 2022 sees Sia’s Snowman jump from 29 to 17. And more than 25 years after it was first released, Paul Kelly’s How To Make Gravy reaches a new chart peak.
Stay THE KID LAROI & JUSTIN BIEBER (number six)
Snowman SIA (17)
How To Make Gravy PAUL KELLY (34)
A surge in vinyl sales sees Tame Impala’s third studio album leap from 67 to 15.
Paul Kelly’s Christmas Train PAUL KELLY (number eight)
Currents TAME IMPALA (15)
F*ck Love (Over You) THE KID LAROI (18)
Only Santa Knows DELTA GOODREM (31)
The Very Best INXS (38)
HOWZAT! PLAYLIST
Navigating The Night DELSINKI
B Town PERRY KEYES
Deer In Headlights HELEN SHANAHAN
Make Hay TRUCK
Tarkine MIDNIGHT OIL
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