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Davies' music career spans more than 40 years. He came to prominence in the early 1980s as co-founder and lead singer of rock band Icehouse, becoming one of Australia's top rock stars of that decade. [2] In addition to his work with Icehouse and his solo career, Davies has made music for television series and films.
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 ...
Great Southern Land is the first compilation album by Australian rock/synthpop band Icehouse, released by Chrysalis Records / Regular Records in October 1989. It peaked at No. 2 on the Australian albums charts, and contained two new singles "Touch the Fire", which peaked at No. 13 on the singles chart, and "Jimmy Dean", which peaked at No. 47. [1]
The first new material under the name Icehouse was the Australian 1981 single-only release "Love in Motion", recorded in London while on tour, upon return to Australia Icehouse separated. 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 ...
"Great Southern Land" is a song by Australian rock band Icehouse. It was released on 9 August 1982 [1] as the lead single from their second studio album Primitive Man. [2] It peaked at No. 5 on the Australian Singles Chart, [3] it was later featured in the 1988 Yahoo Serious film Young Einstein, [4] and remains their most popular songs according to listeners of Triple M in 2007.
The Ice House is a short film that is part of the British supernatural anthology series A Ghost Story for Christmas, and the final instalment of the original 1971-78 run.. Written by John Bowen, who wrote the earlier instalment The Treasure of Abbot Thomas (1974), [1] produced by Rosemary Hill, and directed by Derek Lister, it first aired on BBC1 on 25 December 1975, only the second of the ...
Measure for Measure is the fourth studio album by the Australian rock band Icehouse, released in April 1986 in Australia by Regular Records and in the United States by Chrysalis Records. It was one of the first three albums to be recorded entirely digitally.
All members contributed to vocals, and the band played to consistently good critical reviews. The original members of Factory re-formed in 2014, and their debut studio album Back in the Time Machine was released in April 2016. [2] From 1979, Qunta worked as a session musician and toured with various bands, beginning with Hazel O'Connor's Megahype.