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Uluru (/ ˌ uː l ə ˈ r uː /; Pitjantjatjara: Uluṟu [ˈʊlʊɻʊ]), also known as Ayers Rock (/ ˈ ɛər z / AIRS) and officially gazetted as Uluru / Ayers Rock, [1] is a large sandstone monolith. It crops out near the centre of Australia in the southern part of the Northern Territory, 335 km (208 mi) south-west of Alice Springs.
It was also Australia's first non-commercial 24-hour rock station, and the first to employ women disc jockeys. Double-Jay's wide-ranging programming policies were influenced by British 1960s pirate radio , the early programming of BBC Radio One , and the American album-oriented rock ( AOR ) format.
The title track, Loughnan's "Big Red Rock", [21] is an eight-and-a-half-minute instrumental described by Juke Magazine as "expertly capturing the stark loneliness and cosmic tranquility one gets standing before their namesake rock". [7]
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands. [ N 5 ] It has a total area of 7,688,287 km 2 (2,968,464 sq mi), making it the sixth-largest country in the world and the largest in Oceania .
The Little River Band's 1979 hit "Cool Change" combined psychedelia with elements of pop, jazz, soft rock, and progressive rock. Midnight Oil began their career in the forays of new wave and post-punk , utilising a style akin to Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and Diamond Dogs to create their 1981 record 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 .
“I’m Asian American. I’m half white, half Asian. And so I don’t really fit into either community very well. ... who feels she’s had to do the same to navigate her identity as a Filipina ...
Half Japanese is an American art punk band formed by brothers Jad and David Fair in 1974, [1] after their family's relocation to Uniontown, Maryland.. Half Japanese' original instrumentation included a small drum set, which they took turns playing; vocals; and an out-of-tune, distorted guitar.
The geology of Australia includes virtually all known rock types, spanning a geological time period of over 3.8 billion years, including some of the oldest rocks on earth. Australia is a continent situated on the Indo-Australian plate .