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"Down Under" is a song recorded by Australian rock band Men at Work. It was originally self-released in 1980 as the B-side to their first local single, "Keypunch Operator", before the band signed a recording contract with Columbia Records. [8] Both early songs were written by the group's co-founders, Colin Hay and Ron Strykert. [9]
Men at Work has sold over 30 million albums worldwide. [44] On 28 May 2001 "Down Under" was listed at No. 4 on the APRA Top 30 Australian songs. [45] [46] In October 2010, Business as Usual was listed in the book, 100 Best Australian Albums. [47]
He came to prominence as the lead vocalist and the sole continuous member of the band Men at Work, and later as a solo artist. Hay is a member of the band Ringo Starr & His All-Starr Band . Hay has made appearances in movies such as Cosi (1996) and in television shows such as The Resident , The Larry Sanders Show , JAG , The Mick Molloy Show ...
[3] [4] [5] The second single from the album, "Down Under", was released in November and was a reworked version of the B-side to their debut single, "Keypunch Operator", from the previous year. [3] "Down Under" was co-written by Hay and Strykert, [9] and became the group's first number-one hit in December – which stayed at the top for six weeks.
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.
This article presents the discography of all albums and singles released by the Australian pop rock group Men at Work. [1] [2 ... "Keypunch Operator" b/w "Down Under" ...
Strykert with Men at Work won the following awards: 1983 United States Grammy Award for "Best New Artist" 1983 Canadian Juno Award for "International LP of the Year" for Business as Usual; Hay and Strykert received the following awards from APRA Awards for their composition "Down Under": 1985 Special Award; No. 4 on the APRA Top 30 Australian ...
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.