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"Goodbye (Astrid Goodbye)" is a 1978 single from Australian rock band Cold Chisel. Written by keyboardist Don Walker and vocalist Jimmy Barnes , it was released as a single in 1978, peaking at number 65 on the Australian charts.
A further context of the song is that "soldiers met a hostile reception on their return home". [2] "Khe Sanh" is one of the most popular songs ever recorded by an Australian act and one generally seen as a resonant symbol of the Australian culture. Allmusic describes it as, "a song that will forever epitomize this period of Australian music."
In 2007, Standing on the Outside: The Songs of Cold Chisel was released, featuring a collection of the band's songs as performed by artists including The Living End, Evermore, Something for Kate, Pete Murray, Katie Noonan, You Am I, Paul Kelly, Alex Lloyd, Thirsty Merc and Ben Lee, [53] many of whom were children when Cold Chisel first ...
"When the War Is Over" is song by Australian band Cold Chisel from their 1982 album Circus Animals.The song was written by drummer Steve Prestwich and issued as the third single from the album, peaking at number 25 on the national singles chart, [1] and also resurfaced in August 2011 due to download sales (peaking at number 82 on the ARIA chart).
"Lost" was written by regular Cold Chisel songwriter Don Walker and former Australian Idol contestant Wes Carr in 2012. The pair had a number of writing sessions together. Walker said, "After putting out an album of the normal stuff that Idol people have to record, he wanted to do an album of real songs and wanted to see if I could get involved in some co-writi
It peaked at number 12 on the Australian Kent Music Report. The song was originally demoed by Cold Chisel but never recorded by them. It was written in 1980 as a tribute to Chisel roadies Alan Dallow and Billy Rowe, who died in a truck crash. [citation needed] At the 1984 Countdown Music Awards, Barnes won Best Male Performance in a Video. [1] [2]
"Choirgirl" (also released as "Choir Girl" on subsequent releases) is a song by Australian rock band Cold Chisel, released as the lead single from their third studio album East (1980) in November 1979. A ballad written by Don Walker with an R&B-influenced melody, [2] the song marked the first time the band had recorded with producer Mark Opitz.
Author Louis Nowra said the song was, "the most immediately identifiable song about the Cross." [5] Elsewhere, it was noted the song, "wasn't a cliched, red-light story of the night, it painted Kings Cross in its morning-time, aftermath rhythms." [6] Elsewhere, Walker said the establishment was very small and run by a Yugoslavian family.