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The resulting collaboration produced this song and Oates has stated that if Davies had not released the song under the Icehouse name, then it would have been a Hall & Oates track. [3] "Electric Blue" was released in August 1987 as the second single from Icehouse's fifth studio album, Man of Colours (1987).
The album peaked at No. 1 on the Australian album charts for 11 weeks from 5 October 1987 [7] and has sold over 700,000 copies. [5] " Electric Blue" was their only Australian No. 1 single, [7] the release of the album and its five singles marked the zenith of Icehouse's commercial success, both locally and internationally.
Icehouse are an Australian rock band, formed in Sydney in 1977 as Flowers.Initially known in their homeland for their pub rock style, the band later achieved mainstream success playing new wave and synth-pop music and attained Top 10 singles chart success locally and in both Europe and the U.S. [1] The mainstay of both Flowers and Icehouse has been Iva Davies (singer-songwriter, record ...
Davies recorded the 1982 album Primitive Man (released in UK as Love in Motion, 1983) virtually as a solo artist, co-producing with Keith Forsey, but it was released under the name Icehouse. Davies then formed a new line-up to tour UK and North America promoting the album. [ 1 ]
In 1988, Davies and co-collaborator John Oates won an APRA Music Award for the Icehouse song "Electric Blue" (from the Man of Colours album) in the Most Performed Australasian Popular Work category. [16]
"Electric Blue" (1987) " Crazy " is a song by the Australian rock / synthpop band Icehouse , from the Man of Colours album, the single peaked at Number 4 on the Australian Kent Music Report .
White Heat: 30 Hits is a two-disc compilation album by Australian rock band Icehouse, released on 26 August 2011 in Australia.While it is technically their third best-of compilation, following 1989's Great Southern Land and 1992's Masterfile (not counting a singles box set released in the mid-1990s that was not widely distributed), it is the first such compilation spanning the band's entire ...
Icehouse is the first album released by the Australian rock/synthpop band Flowers, later known as Icehouse, on the independent label Regular Records in October 1980. [4] The title and the artist are sometimes incorrectly swapped, because the band changed their name from Flowers to Icehouse after this album was released.