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MILESTONES AND MEMORIES
The Bee Gees scored their first number one single in the US this week in 1971 when How Can You Mend A Broken Heart topped the charts. And they scored their second number one single in the US when Jive Talkin’ topped the charts this week in 1975.
AC/DC’s Back In Black albumhit number one in the UK this week in 1980.
Missy Higgins’ Scar entered the Australian charts at number one this week in 2004.
This week in 2010, The Dingoes released their first album in 31 years, Tracks.
Happy Birthday to Deborah Conway who is 64, and Vanessa Amorosi who is 42, on August 8. INXS drummer Jon Farriss is 62 on August 10. And Men At Work drummer Jerry Speiser is 70 on August 12.
And we remember pioneering Australian rock journalist Lillian Roxon, who died in New York after an asthma attack, aged 41, 50 years ago this week. She wrote the world’s first rock encyclopedia, 1969’s Lillian Roxon’s Rock Encyclopedia. And Olivia Newton-John and the great Australian visual artist Ian McCausland both died a year ago this week.
CHART WATCH
ARIA’s Top 40 features just one Australian single.
Rush TROYE SIVAN (number 38)
John Farnham is the only Aussie act on the albums chart.
Greatest Hits JOHN FARNHAM (number 19)
John Farnham: Finding The Voice soundtrack JOHN FARNHAM (37)
HOWZAT! PLAYLIST
Around The Bend MINOR GOLD
Letting Go ANGIE McMAHON
Dear Seventeen GRETTA RAY
Last Night In Redfern Park PERRY KEYES
St Patrick & St Michael DAN WARNER AND THE NIGHT PARROTS
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