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Journalist
Jeff Jenkins' weekly column featuring Australian music news,
interviews, a look at the charts and more. Updated every
Sunday afternoon. Click
here for the archive page.
Jeff
is a semi-regular guest on
The Australian Mood with Neil Rogers, 8-10pm Thursdays
on 3RRR in Melbourne
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November 30th 2025
MILESTONES AND MEMORIES
Johnny Farnham’s debut single, Sadie (The Cleaning Lady), entered the charts this week in 1967.
Split Enz played the final show of their “Enz With A Bang” tour, in Auckland, this week in 1984.
Forty years ago this week, Midnight Oil’s Species Deceases EP became the first Australian release to enter the singles chart at number one.
Peter Garrett announced he was leaving Midnight Oil this week in 2002. “The last 25 years have been incredibly fulfilling for me,” he said, “and I leave with the greatest respect for the whole of Midnight Oil. The band has brought a lot of pleasure and meaning to people’s lives, including my own. Who could ask for any more? But it is time for me to move on and immerse myself in those things which are of deep concern to me and which I have been unable to fully apply myself to up to now.”
Peter Garrett became the Minister for Environment, Heritage and the Arts in the new Rudd Labor Government this week in 2007.
Kylie Minogue and Jason Donovan were part of the Band Aid II re-recording of Do They Know It’s Christmas?, produced by Stock, Aitken and Waterman, this week in 1989. Bob Geldof attended the recording session with his wife Paula Yates and their six-year-old daughter, Fifi Trixibelle, who wanted to meet Jason Donovan.
Thirty years ago this week, Swoop’s Apple Eyes entered the Top 40.
Born To Try became Delta Goodrem’s first number one single this week in 2002.
Twenty years ago this week, Kate DeAraugo’s Maybe Tonight hit number one.
Air Supply were inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame this week in 2013, and Michael Gudinski became the first ARIA Industry Icon.
Happy Birthday to Triple R legend and The Bo-Weevils bass player Neil Rogers OAM, who is 67 on December 5.
And we remember Cold Chisel’s original bass player, Les Kaczmarek, who died of liver failure, aged 53, this week in 2008. He spent two years in the band before being replaced by Phil Small in 1975. He also co-wrote AFL club Port Adelaide’s theme song.
CHART WATCH
Tame Impala’s Dracula is still the only homegrown hit in ARIA’s Top 40.
Dracula TAME IMPALA (number 33)
A Top 5 debut for Sydney pop-punk band SoSo.
So Much For Second Chances SOSO (number four, debut)
Once I Was Wild THE SMITH STREET BAND (14, debut)
Afterglow MIDNIGHT TIL MORNING (16, debut)
Everyone’s A Star! 5 SECONDS OF SUMMER (18)
Dear Friend SWIM (22, debut)
Deadbeat TAME IMPALA (27)
Seventy PAUL KELLY (33)
Hickey ROYEL OTIS (35)
HOWZAT! PLAYLIST
Unfamiliar Ground STEPHEN CUMMINGS
Here We Go Again LIV CARTLEDGE
Love Over Hate HELEN RYDER
Lighter Shade Of Blue MINOR GOLD
Leaving Nobody Out ICECREAM HANDS
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