This song was written by Red Symons, the guitarist singing the verses. He spent years on a TV show hosting a segment called Red Faces. I believe the rest of Skyhooks songs were written by the bassist, Greg Macainsh. Songs like Ego Is Not A Dirty Word, Horror Movie and Women In Uniform.
Glad you guys enjoyed it! Skyhooks were a phenomenon in Australia during the mid 70's. They had an intense following of mostly teenage girls (I know.. they're not very pretty, in spite of the make-up) and like the Blur and Oasis thing in England twenty years later; Australia had the whole Skyhooks vs Sherbet rage happening at the time. Sherbet were the conventional Sydney pop group, and Skyhooks were the edgier Melbourne band. I fell into the Skyhooks camp because I enjoyed their humour and the craze that surrounded them. It was also safer to be on Skyhooks side because I was a Melbourne girl and I knew Skyhooks fans could be confrontational. ''Smut'' and ''You Just Like Me Coz I'm Good In Bed'' were both banned by Australian radio. Their albums, _Living In The 70's_ and _Ego Is Not A Dirty Word_ , and the single ''Horror Movie'' topped the Australian charts in 1975. They were a Countdown favourite in the mid 70's, and were just an enjoyable part of my preadolescence. Cheers, Hayley
*"I know.. they're not very pretty, in spite of the make-up"* - They did have quite some charisma, though! And they weren't exactly ugly either 😄 But of course I also know what other bands you're comparing them with 😉 I also checked out Sherbet but wasn't able to really get into them, but I'm grateful to you Sisters for introducing Skyhooks to me! 😊👍
My opinion, Women in Uniform is their best track which was years later also covered by Ironmaiden. Living in the 70's, Horror Movie, Ego is not a dirty word, Million Dollar Riff, Toorak Cowboy, Balwyn Calling are all worthy of having a listen to
I got to see them live on a few occassions in the 70's. The first time was at the Sydney Opera House when they were opening for Stevie Wright. Nobody was moved by their performance because they were just new. Good quality footage of that concert is on TH-cam. I then got to see them the following year and the reception was mania.
It's such a funny song. Absolutely filthy subject matter and musically soooo pretty. Have loved Skyhooks since 1974. Saw them when Split Enz were their support band.
Takes me back to the first time I did pot. I felt as anxious about getting caught as the poor fella in this song does about his act in the cinema. There was something refreshing and new about Skyhooks, because up to that the point, we had all these serious proggy and blues groups, which were beginning to stale by the mid 70's. It was nice to have something that would upset some of the uptights in that time. Like the Supernaut songs, you can add this to the tongue-in-cheek trash heap of 70's Aussie pop-rock of that time period.
I remember this band. I had one of their albums once. They were an influence on Split Enz, I believe. Different from but similar to the Enz. Great song and great reaction.
Great review Haniers - Skyhooks were probably the biggest Aussie band not to make any kind of dent overseas. Love to see you guys review "Carlton" off the same debut album
When i first joined the Royal Navy, i was sent for sky hooks, tartan paint, glass hammers and many other things. I was as green as grass. Nice song but i was waiting for something to happen
Skyhooks - Living In The 70's Shirley Strachan - Living in the 70's (live 1988 soundcheck) Skyhooks - Horror Movie Skyhooks - Women In Uniform Skyhooks - All My Friends Are Getting Married Skyhooks - Ego Is Not A Dirty Word
Skyhooks vs Sherbet was a real thing in the mid 70's. You couldn't buy a music magazine without seeing their clownish faces grinning at you on a page. A poster of them seemed to always pop up in TV Week magazine, and they always seemed to pop up on every TV show imaginable. I think I remember them being on TV commercials for Pepsi or Coke or one of Australia's dodogy short-lived cola's? They were a fun and talented group, and are worth further investigation. I was around when they were big and I got sick of them due to overexposure. Million Dollar Riff might amuse you two.
My sister and I only became equals around 1980. That was the year my mind and body caught up with her's and people began to think we were twins. Prior to this; she was the big sister and she became obsessed with music before I did. Thus, Skyhooks and Supernaut will always be her bands. I have some fond memories of Skyhooks songs and I remember singing ''All My Friends Are Getting Married'' in the car when i was about 7. I only began to understand some of Skyhooks dirtier songs a little later. Little wonder our parents didn't like them. lol I suggest 'You Just Like Me Coz I'm Good In Bed', 'This Is Our City', 'Horror Movie', 'Ego Is Not A Dirty Word', 'All My Friends Are Getting Married', 'Women In Uniform' and 'Why Don'tcha All Get F*cked'.
Oh yeah.. And the Neil Finn guitarist/singer is Red Symons. He became a TV and radio personality in Australia. Ugh.. I had a bit of a disagreement with old Red way back in the mid 80's which kinda cost me an opportunity. I don't like being talked down to, and my wit is quite quick and cutting. He didn't like me at all. lol Anyway, Red did produce The Globos 'Tintarella di luna' and their follow up 'The Beat Goes On'. Nice man.. You should try having him as a judge when you're auditioning for a dance part in a TV show. I'll never forgive him. 😈
@@kevkoala Ha, ha - I felt like a contestant on Red Faces. I think it might have been a while before he became a judge on Red Faces. It was for a Dance comp. thing. Nothing to do with Hey Hey It's Saturday. I don't know what he was doing being a judge. Weird man.
Oh my Lord! I spend the weekend away from the computer, only to come back and see you two getting into SMUT!! He, he, kidding! Yeh, these guys were pretty important in the Australian music landscape at the time. There was a lot going on, especially with the Whitlam government moving Australia out of the dark ages and finally getting colour TV and Countdown. ''Smut'' and ''You Just Like Me Coz I'm Good In Bed'' was blacklisted by radio programmers, but the latter got to be the first song played on the fledgling radio station, 2JJ. I tuned in to some long-in-the-tooth ''classic hits'' station the other day, and what should pop up straight after some old Elton John song, but ''You Just Like Me Coz I'm Good In Bed''. You guys should try Australian Crawl's ''Boys Light Up''.
I remember the weird make up of this band, Split Enz and Kiss in late 70's and early 80's but was just a little kid so did not understand what the go was with that era. Maybe it was a reaction to colour tv of mid 70's that was becoming the norm in households so they just totally went nuts on colour everywhere because before that was the black and white tv era.
Another great song is "Why don't you all get f@&%#^d" - one of the reasons 70's kids loved Skyhooks and their parents hated them. Not sure if verse 3 would pass muster these days though. Also the 1988 "Living in the 70s" soundcheck shows what a great voice Graham (Shirley) Strachan had.
I reckon you guys have now already listened to their best song! 😄 I love the moments in which curly Shirley takes over the lead vocals with his amazing voice 😍 'Ego Is Not A Dirty Word' is great, too! 😀👍
@@liveitup67 - Ah yeah, but that's *your* problem, not mine! 😄 And to our recent Ross Wilson subject: I found out via a Skyhooks documentary earlier today that he had produced some of their music, too! 😀 Which I'm sure you already knew, though 😄
@@mightyV444 Ouch! My problem! _Touché_ 😔 Ross Wilson did do their first two records I believe. He was also in Daddy Cool (a GTK band), and then he jumped onto Mondo Rock. I liked a few of their songs...
Haha never thought that would have ever got a reaction. The Skyhooks were fantastic their first album livingin the 70's had 6 of the 10 songs band on the radio due to talking about drugs homo-sexuality one night stands. You could imagine how the ratings went. Shirley the main singer went on after Skyhooks to run a kids TV show and then a carpentry segments in a homes and gardens show until sadly he had a crash in his helicopter and died from it RIP Shirley. The funny thing Red Simons the singer guitarist in this video got a job later on hey hey it Saturday as the height of class in talent segment call Red faces.
The lyrics make a little more sense when you know that Twisties are a bag snack like pork rinds or potato chips or similar. Not sure what countries Twisties exist in, but they’re very much a part of Aussie culture. Cheese flavour is the most common, I personally prefer Chicken Twisties. Every now and then I saw BBQ flavour ones too.
We do have Twisties also here in NZ, and I found myself looking at a bag of them when entering a dairy not long after having heard this song for the first time, a few months ago 😄
The clip you're watching is from GTK when it was on its last legs. Countdown killed this show. There were a lot of uptight figureheads in Australia that wanted to keep the country in this conformist bubble with nothing but a diet of prejudice and religion as a source for character development. Fred Nile being an extreme example. Skyhooks seemed to exist to piss those people off. They also had songs that raised questions about Australia post-Vietnam, sexuality, etc.. Quite a clever collection of songs, and even more genius that they managed to have significant chart success. The media tarnished them as trouble makers, but nobody really bought it because .. look at them. Men in make-up singing smart ass songs. It's not going to turn the country upside down. I recommend Horror Movie (Countdown made an interesting clip for that song), All My Friends Are Getting Married, Women In Uniform (covered by Iron Maiden), This Is My City, Million Dollar Riff... I wouldn't recommend their other # 1 Jukebox In Siberia, but I'm sure others will...
Don't forget. They were synonymous with Gough Whitlam. Their songs had Australian references ('Calton', 'Balwyn Calling', 'Toorak Cowboy', 'Somewhere in Sydney') which was almost unheard of in Australian rock. They also raised questions that we were all asking at the time ('Whatever Happened to the Revolution?'). I'm quite impressed that the Haniers could tell there was more to Skyhooks than just silly songs. They're very observant people.
@@leavemealone344 - Very interesting band! And I'd heard (of) them for the first time only a few months ago and through viewers on this here channel, despite having lived in NZ for the past 20 years!
Actually the guys had a cult following in the USA. Not one of their hits but a popular tune. Please look at other tracks as a better guide of them as a great band. They were the first Australian Band to sign a million dollar contract with the USA.
I've been a Skyhooks fan since I was a 9 year old girl living in Melbourne in 1974. I never knew they were the first Australian band to sign a deal like that in the US. I gotta admire the person that took the chance on them, because I couldn't imagine their songs being easily sold in America...
@@I_was_a_Countdown_Kid-75-83 With Australian commercial success achieved, Skyhooks turned to the US market. Gudinski announced a $1.5 million deal with Mercury Records/Phonogram Records,[1] 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.[1][2][5] A US tour followed in March-April 1976, but critics described them as imitators of Kiss due to the similarity of Symons' make-up and stage act to that of Gene Simmons,[3] and despite limited success in Boston, Massachusetts and Jacksonville, Florida they failed to make inroads into the general US market.[1]
@@liveitup67 - am always happy with banter 😊 - I have no recollection of them ever being compared with Kiss on any level - particularly make. They were a little glam and certainly unique in Australia. But - they were a great Aussie band for sure!
@@rodpope7838 Ha, ha, cool! I like to think of Skyhooks as an Australian tongue-in-cheek Glam-Rock mock band. They had a little more of an Australian irreverence to their Glam rock. They also placed Australian places in their lyrics, which was was a little disconcerting at the time, because we were so used to American places being referenced in our local hits. We also had Hush and Supernaut, who seemed to take Glam Rock a little more to heart than Skyhooks did. I agree.. They were unique and great for their time.
This song was written by Red Symons, the guitarist singing the verses. He spent years on a TV show hosting a segment called Red Faces. I believe the rest of Skyhooks songs were written by the bassist, Greg Macainsh. Songs like Ego Is Not A Dirty Word, Horror Movie and Women In Uniform.
Glad you guys enjoyed it! Skyhooks were a phenomenon in Australia during the mid 70's. They had an intense following of mostly teenage girls (I know.. they're not very pretty, in spite of the make-up) and like the Blur and Oasis thing in England twenty years later; Australia had the whole Skyhooks vs Sherbet rage happening at the time. Sherbet were the conventional Sydney pop group, and Skyhooks were the edgier Melbourne band. I fell into the Skyhooks camp because I enjoyed their humour and the craze that surrounded them. It was also safer to be on Skyhooks side because I was a Melbourne girl and I knew Skyhooks fans could be confrontational.
''Smut'' and ''You Just Like Me Coz I'm Good In Bed'' were both banned by Australian radio. Their albums, _Living In The 70's_ and _Ego Is Not A Dirty Word_ , and the single ''Horror Movie'' topped the Australian charts in 1975.
They were a Countdown favourite in the mid 70's, and were just an enjoyable part of my preadolescence.
Cheers,
Hayley
*"I know.. they're not very pretty, in spite of the make-up"* - They did have quite some charisma, though! And they weren't exactly ugly either 😄 But of course I also know what other bands you're comparing them with 😉 I also checked out Sherbet but wasn't able to really get into them, but I'm grateful to you Sisters for introducing Skyhooks to me! 😊👍
@@mightyV444 They were charismatic - more so than Sherbet. By the way, you might know 'Howzat' by Sherbet. It's their only international hit.
@@I_was_a_Countdown_Kid-75-83 - I just listened to it, and it did indeed sound familiar to me 😀 Quoite loiked it, too! 😀👍
My opinion, Women in Uniform is their best track which was years later also covered by Ironmaiden. Living in the 70's, Horror Movie, Ego is not a dirty word, Million Dollar Riff, Toorak Cowboy, Balwyn Calling are all worthy of having a listen to
I got to see them live on a few occassions in the 70's. The first time was at the Sydney Opera House when they were opening for Stevie Wright. Nobody was moved by their performance because they were just new. Good quality footage of that concert is on TH-cam. I then got to see them the following year and the reception was mania.
I watched that Opera House show meanwhile: Good stuff! 😀👍 Thank you for the suggestion, Eve! 😊
It's such a funny song. Absolutely filthy subject matter and musically soooo pretty. Have loved Skyhooks since 1974. Saw them when Split Enz were their support band.
Takes me back to the first time I did pot. I felt as anxious about getting caught as the poor fella in this song does about his act in the cinema. There was something refreshing and new about Skyhooks, because up to that the point, we had all these serious proggy and blues groups, which were beginning to stale by the mid 70's. It was nice to have something that would upset some of the uptights in that time. Like the Supernaut songs, you can add this to the tongue-in-cheek trash heap of 70's Aussie pop-rock of that time period.
TMG's Jump In My Car is the top of this trash heap! lol
@@kaitlynbatt_ The song that broke ABBA's string of # 1 hits.
I had that 1st supernaught record years ago..simple stuff but I liked it ...not both ways tho 😅
I remember this band. I had one of their albums once. They were an influence on Split Enz, I believe. Different from but similar to the Enz. Great song and great reaction.
I remember reading Juke magazine (at least, I think it was Juke) that Skyhooks directed Mushroom records attention to Split Enz and got them signed.
Great review Haniers - Skyhooks were probably the biggest Aussie band not to make any kind of dent overseas. Love to see you guys review "Carlton" off the same debut album
The guitarist is Redmond Symonds
When i first joined the Royal Navy, i was sent for sky hooks, tartan paint, glass hammers and many other things. I was as green as grass.
Nice song but i was waiting for something to happen
Something did happen. He got caught jerking off. What he did after that is up to the listener's imagination. It's art!
@@madisonmelbourne7114 lol @ Madison. That has to be the funniest reply I've read this year.
Ha Ha! I never knew there was a video clip of this let alone anyone play it. The whole Living in The 70's album was brilliant !
Skyhooks - Living In The 70's
Shirley Strachan - Living in the 70's (live 1988 soundcheck)
Skyhooks - Horror Movie
Skyhooks - Women In Uniform
Skyhooks - All My Friends Are Getting Married
Skyhooks - Ego Is Not A Dirty Word
Skyhooks vs Sherbet was a real thing in the mid 70's. You couldn't buy a music magazine without seeing their clownish faces grinning at you on a page.
A poster of them seemed to always pop up in TV Week magazine, and they always seemed to pop up on every TV show imaginable.
I think I remember them being on TV commercials for Pepsi or Coke or one of Australia's dodogy short-lived cola's? They were a fun and talented group, and are worth further investigation. I was around when they were big and I got sick of them due to overexposure.
Million Dollar Riff might amuse you two.
That was the first Skyhooks song I heard, and only a few months ago, too! I'd never heard of them before, during my 20 years of living in NZ! 🤯
@@mightyV444 "Living in the 70's" is one of their classics.
@@philipandrew1626 - Great song, too! 😀👍
My sister and I only became equals around 1980. That was the year my mind and body caught up with her's and people began to think we were twins. Prior to this; she was the big sister and she became obsessed with music before I did. Thus, Skyhooks and Supernaut will always be her bands.
I have some fond memories of Skyhooks songs and I remember singing ''All My Friends Are Getting Married'' in the car when i was about 7. I only began to understand some of Skyhooks dirtier songs a little later. Little wonder our parents didn't like them. lol
I suggest 'You Just Like Me Coz I'm Good In Bed', 'This Is Our City', 'Horror Movie', 'Ego Is Not A Dirty Word', 'All My Friends Are Getting Married', 'Women In Uniform' and 'Why Don'tcha All Get F*cked'.
Oh yeah.. And the Neil Finn guitarist/singer is Red Symons. He became a TV and radio personality in Australia. Ugh.. I had a bit of a disagreement with old Red way back in the mid 80's which kinda cost me an opportunity. I don't like being talked down to, and my wit is quite quick and cutting. He didn't like me at all. lol
Anyway, Red did produce The Globos 'Tintarella di luna' and their follow up 'The Beat Goes On'. Nice man.. You should try having him as a judge when you're auditioning for a dance part in a TV show.
I'll never forgive him.
😈
@@liveitup67 Did he give you a 0 or a minus score?
@@kevkoala Ha, ha - I felt like a contestant on Red Faces. I think it might have been a while before he became a judge on Red Faces. It was for a Dance comp. thing. Nothing to do with Hey Hey It's Saturday. I don't know what he was doing being a judge. Weird man.
Oh my Lord! I spend the weekend away from the computer, only to come back and see you two getting into SMUT!!
He, he, kidding! Yeh, these guys were pretty important in the Australian music landscape at the time. There was a lot going on, especially with the Whitlam government moving Australia out of the dark ages and finally getting colour TV and Countdown.
''Smut'' and ''You Just Like Me Coz I'm Good In Bed'' was blacklisted by radio programmers, but the latter got to be the first song played on the fledgling radio station, 2JJ. I tuned in to some long-in-the-tooth ''classic hits'' station the other day, and what should pop up straight after some old Elton John song, but ''You Just Like Me Coz I'm Good In Bed''.
You guys should try Australian Crawl's ''Boys Light Up''.
specifically this one ---> Australian Crawl - Boys Light Up (2023 Remastered Version)
@@kaitlynbatt_ I'd like to see them do Boys Lights Up.
So much fun.. I wonder if Supernaut took some notes from The Hooks
Probably..pretty risque stuff for 76 ..
Love's Not Good Enough is well worth the listen. Their best to me. Turn volume up for bass intro..$$$$ I even pay
I remember the weird make up of this band, Split Enz and Kiss in late 70's and early 80's but was just a little kid so did not understand what the go was with that era. Maybe it was a reaction to colour tv of mid 70's that was becoming the norm in households so they just totally went nuts on colour everywhere because before that was the black and white tv era.
Another great song is "Why don't you all get f@&%#^d" - one of the reasons 70's kids loved Skyhooks and their parents hated them. Not sure if verse 3 would pass muster these days though. Also the 1988 "Living in the 70s" soundcheck shows what a great voice Graham (Shirley) Strachan had.
I think Doctor & The Medics took inspiration on the Make Up.
Yeah. That could be the case.
I reckon you guys have now already listened to their best song! 😄 I love the moments in which curly Shirley takes over the lead vocals with his amazing voice 😍 'Ego Is Not A Dirty Word' is great, too! 😀👍
How dare you!!! 👿
@@liveitup67 - th-cam.com/video/jgm4UaHPr54/w-d-xo.html 😄 Well... I'm allowed to say my own opinion, aren't I?
@@mightyV444 I don't know... Depends on if I agree with the opinion or not. ☺
@@liveitup67 - Ah yeah, but that's *your* problem, not mine! 😄 And to our recent Ross Wilson subject: I found out via a Skyhooks documentary earlier today that he had produced some of their music, too! 😀 Which I'm sure you already knew, though 😄
@@mightyV444 Ouch! My problem! _Touché_ 😔 Ross Wilson did do their first two records I believe. He was also in Daddy Cool (a GTK band), and then he jumped onto Mondo Rock. I liked a few of their songs...
Any band that has "Straight in a Gay Gay World" should be in the ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME!
A good skyhooks track to react is Carlton (Lygon st Limbo) off the same album
Haha never thought that would have ever got a reaction. The Skyhooks were fantastic their first album livingin the 70's had 6 of the 10 songs band on the radio due to talking about drugs homo-sexuality one night stands. You could imagine how the ratings went. Shirley the main singer went on after Skyhooks to run a kids TV show and then a carpentry segments in a homes and gardens show until sadly he had a crash in his helicopter and died from it RIP Shirley. The funny thing Red Simons the singer guitarist in this video got a job later on hey hey it Saturday as the height of class in talent segment call Red faces.
Saw them live way back great band
Believe it or not Red Symonds (guitar player) is a highly intelligent character, which makes songs like this all the more weird!
The lyrics make a little more sense when you know that Twisties are a bag snack like pork rinds or potato chips or similar. Not sure what countries Twisties exist in, but they’re very much a part of Aussie culture. Cheese flavour is the most common, I personally prefer Chicken Twisties. Every now and then I saw BBQ flavour ones too.
We do have Twisties also here in NZ, and I found myself looking at a bag of them when entering a dairy not long after having heard this song for the first time, a few months ago 😄
@@mightyV444
When we were at school we’d often buy a small bag of Twisties and a buttered bread roll and put the Twisties in the roll for lunch.
Probably not the most nutritious lunch...
@@hanierfamily
Breakfast of champions?
😂
@@sean---the-other-one - Must've been your favourites in those rolls, the Chicken ones! 😉
Nice. But you might enjoy some of their more popular songs, like 'Women in Uniform' or 'Horror Movie.
Good fun band, really good live too
The clip you're watching is from GTK when it was on its last legs. Countdown killed this show.
There were a lot of uptight figureheads in Australia that wanted to keep the country in this conformist bubble with nothing but a diet of prejudice and religion as a source for character development. Fred Nile being an extreme example. Skyhooks seemed to exist to piss those people off. They also had songs that raised questions about Australia post-Vietnam, sexuality, etc.. Quite a clever collection of songs, and even more genius that they managed to have significant chart success. The media tarnished them as trouble makers, but nobody really bought it because .. look at them. Men in make-up singing smart ass songs. It's not going to turn the country upside down.
I recommend Horror Movie (Countdown made an interesting clip for that song), All My Friends Are Getting Married, Women In Uniform (covered by Iron Maiden), This Is My City, Million Dollar Riff... I wouldn't recommend their other # 1 Jukebox In Siberia, but I'm sure others will...
... and 'Ego Is Not A Dirty Word' ! 😀👍
Don't forget. They were synonymous with Gough Whitlam. Their songs had Australian references ('Calton', 'Balwyn Calling', 'Toorak Cowboy', 'Somewhere in Sydney') which was almost unheard of in Australian rock. They also raised questions that we were all asking at the time ('Whatever Happened to the Revolution?'). I'm quite impressed that the Haniers could tell there was more to Skyhooks than just silly songs. They're very observant people.
@@mightyV444 And that one too...
@@leavemealone344 - Very interesting band! And I'd heard (of) them for the first time only a few months ago and through viewers on this here channel, despite having lived in NZ for the past 20 years!
They should of listened to Fred..now they can't tell if they are male or female 🤦♂️
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻Classic Red!
lol this is the shit my dad plays when he has a barbeque with his mates
Loved the hooks but my mum kept confiscating this particular album 🤣🤣🤣
Go get yourself some Twisties 😉
Women in uniform was banned when the song came , horror movie etc
Actually the guys had a cult following in the USA. Not one of their hits but a popular tune. Please look at other tracks as a better guide of them as a great band. They were the first Australian Band to sign a million dollar contract with the USA.
I've been a Skyhooks fan since I was a 9 year old girl living in Melbourne in 1974. I never knew they were the first Australian band to sign a deal like that in the US. I gotta admire the person that took the chance on them, because I couldn't imagine their songs being easily sold in America...
@@I_was_a_Countdown_Kid-75-83 With Australian commercial success achieved, Skyhooks turned to the US market. Gudinski announced a $1.5 million deal with Mercury Records/Phonogram Records,[1] 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.[1][2][5] A US tour followed in March-April 1976, but critics described them as imitators of Kiss due to the similarity of Symons' make-up and stage act to that of Gene Simmons,[3] and despite limited success in Boston, Massachusetts and Jacksonville, Florida they failed to make inroads into the general US market.[1]
@@rodpope7838 KISS? But.. but... Kiss are not talented. 🤪
Sorry, I'm jumping onto my sister's comments here.
Carry on...
@@liveitup67 - am always happy with banter 😊 - I have no recollection of them ever being compared with Kiss on any level - particularly make. They were a little glam and certainly unique in Australia. But - they were a great Aussie band for sure!
@@rodpope7838 Ha, ha, cool! I like to think of Skyhooks as an Australian tongue-in-cheek Glam-Rock mock band. They had a little more of an Australian irreverence to their Glam rock. They also placed Australian places in their lyrics, which was was a little disconcerting at the time, because we were so used to American places being referenced in our local hits.
We also had Hush and Supernaut, who seemed to take Glam Rock a little more to heart than Skyhooks did. I agree.. They were unique and great for their time.
Who's had a job where they got sent for skyhooks?
glass hammer or a long weight lol
Did you ever get sent to the Tech Dept for a "Long Stand"?
@@SPKdesign1 only once
@@Sandy-dd4le That was a favourite at my school along with getting Tartan paint fi the Art Department.
@@SPKdesign1 I only hope these fine traditions are being practiced today!
This bubble gum smells like a kangaroo…