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After Midnight Oil toured through the Outback in 1986, playing to remote Aboriginal communities and seeing first hand the seriousness of the issues in health and living standards, Peter Garrett, Jim Moginie and Rob Hirst wrote "Beds Are Burning" to criticise how said populations were often forcibly removed from their lands, highlighted by the pre-chorus lines "it belongs to them, let's give it ...
[3] [4] It was the second Midnight Oil song in the list with "Beds Are Burning" declared third behind the Easybeats' "Friday on My Mind" and Daddy Cool's "Eagle Rock". [5] It was performed by the band at the 2009 Sound Relief concert in Melbourne. On 5 June 2012, the song was released as downloadable content for the video game Rock Band 3.
On 28 October 2021, the band released on YouTube a video for their first single from the album, "Rising Seas". [66] They announced the single on Twitter: "The uncompromising song, released on the eve of [the United Nations Climate Change Conference] ( COP26 ), adds the band's unique voice to billions of others around the world seeking a safe ...
Scream in Blue is a live album by Midnight Oil that was released in May 1992 under the Columbia Records label. It contains songs carefully culled from 5 live concerts recorded over a 9-year period. [1]
Born on 16 April 1953, in Wahroonga, Sydney, [3] Garrett was the eldest of three siblings. He suffered from severe asthma as a child. He attended Gordon West Public School and then Barker College in Hornsby before studying politics at the Australian National University (ANU), where he was a resident at Burgmann College, and later law at the University of New South Wales.
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In early 2004, the duo's cover of Midnight Oil's 1988 hit "Beds Are Burning" became one of their highest-charting hits, peaking at no. 7 in Germany and no. 2 in Austria. It promoted their second album, Cubes , which reached no. 27 in Germany and no. 24 in Austria.