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The nucleus of Men at Work formed in Melbourne around June 1979 with Colin Hay on lead vocals and guitar, Ron Strykert on bass guitar, and Jerry Speiser on drums. They were soon joined by Greg Ham on flute, sax and keyboards, and then John Rees on bass guitar, with Strykert switching to lead guitar. [7]
At the ARIA Music Awards of 1994, Hay was inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame as a member of Men at Work. [12] In 1994, Hay established his own recording label, Lazy Eye Records, [13] and released his fourth studio album, Topanga. In 1996, Hay reunited with Men at Work and toured South America, which led to the live Men at Work album, Brazil. [6]
Following Men at Work's break-up in 1986, he briefly joined pop band FX [2] (featuring keyboard player John McCubbery), and then Ross Hannaford's band One World as a guitarist. [2] In 1986, he and former Men at Work producer and sound engineer Peter McIan had a short stint with American band The city, where he played the drums while McIan ...
Men at Work in 1983. Men at Work is an Australian pop rock band founded in 1978 in St Kilda, Victoria. [1] [2] [3] The group is best known for several Number 1 singles and studio albums released between 1981 and 1983. [1] The following is a complete chronology of the band's member history.
Regardless, "desk rage" is the new term to describe that feeling (although it doesn't always happen at a desk, of course); in a recent story in Psychology Today, author Ray B. Williams cited some ...
"Overkill" is a song by Australian pop rock band Men at Work. It was released in March 1983 as the second single from their second studio album Cargo.Written by lead singer Colin Hay, it peaked at No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100; No. 5 on the Australian Kent Music Report Singles Chart; and top 10 in Canada, Ireland, and Norway.
The album is a career-retrospective for Hay: he is best known as the lead singer for the 1980s Australian pop band Men at Work, and roughly half of the songs on this album are Hay's solo studio renderings of works from the Men at Work catalog, while several others are remixes or re-recordings of material from his solo albums.
Innocent Columbia area man was indicted in this week’s major federal and local crackdown on drugs and guns. Federal officials have dropped charges and apologized. SC feds arrest man at work ...