Skyhooks - This Is My City (1976)

Music from Australia and New Zealand in the year 1976:

Skyhooks' promo-video for the hit single 'This Is My City' (August, 1976), taken from the 1976 album 'Straight In A Gay Gay World'.

Band Location: Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Track: This Is My City
Album: Second Thoughts
Composed by:
Produced by: Ross Wilson
[ Daddy Cool -- Mondo Rock vocalist ]
Label: Mushroom
Chart Position: #32 (Australia)
Release Date: August, 1976
Footage Information:
Links:
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skyhooks
- http://www.skyhooks-music.com/

Line-up:

Greg Macainsh -- Bass
[ Spare Parts (1966-1968) -- Sound Pump (1968) -- Reuben Tice (1969-1970) -- Reuben Tice (1970-1971) -- Claptrap (1971) -- Frame (Claptrap with name change 1971-1973) -- Skyhooks (1973-1980) -- Skyhooks reunions ]

Bob Starkie (aka "Bongo Starr") -- Guitar, Backing Vocals
[ Mary Jane Union -- Skyhooks (1973-1980) -- Skyhooks reunions ]

Graeme "Shirley" Strachan -- Lead Vocals
[ Frame (1972-1973) -- Skyhooks (1973-1978) -- solo artist (1976-1980) -- Skyhooks reunions ]

Imants "Freddie" Strauks (aka "Freddie Kaboodleschnitzer) -- Drums
[ Spare Parts (1966-1968) -- Claptrap (1971) -- Frame (Claptrap with name change 1971-1973) -- Skyhooks (1973-1980) -- The Sports (1980-1982) -- Skyhooks reunions ]

Red Symons -- Lead Guitar, Lead Vocals, Backing Vocals, Keyboards
[ Scumbag -- Skyhooks (1973-1976) -- solo artist (1977) -- Skyhooks reunions and television work )

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NZOZ NZOZ1976 1976 Australia Mid Seventies 1970's 1970s 70's 70s

Extended Tags: Graeme "Shirley" Strachan, Red Symons, Bob "Bongo" Starkie, Greg Macainsh, "Freddie" Strauks

Musical Terms: Rock, Pop, Aussie, Old Australian Band

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Skyhooks
• 1976
• Australia
• Mid
• Seventies

[jon1156]

Do all Aussie bands go in for wacky outfits?

[nzoz1976]

yes

[sailtheseaofcheese]

Great song from a Great Album

[absolutelyfree1963]

@newellgirl Oh yeah... it's a long way down.... (!)

[absolutelyfree1963]

@swanstoon I had Madder Lakes greatest hits CD and it was stolen along with all my other music. I miss their music. Would be nice 2 C more up here. Slack Alice is ne track someone should upload... ;-P

Can you ever have too muh cow bell?

[absolutelyfree1963]

@newellgirl Melbourne has changed for the worse in many other ways. I would never live there. But yeah, great band. I know a guy who ran the Bombay Rock in the 70's and 80's. He is a character. Met a lot of bands. Said Guddinski ripped the "flying Chooks" off but then I dunno...

Skyhooks, the thinking man's Oz glam/boogie/punk/new wave band...

[johnnoflem128]

Only the good ones

[newellgirl]

imagine a cop picking you up in a blue Kingswood 0:54

[newellgirl]

i get spooked by the height & openness of the rooftop..hehe always remembered Shirl "jumping off" they look so close to edge and when Bongo stands atop his amp in bloody diving flippers he looks like he could fall off the edge! great clip..from a legendary band Oh how Melbourne has changed ..for the worst..architecturally

[southernraven1969]

Awesome song! 

[swanstoon]

@trampismat Jack Kreemers of Madder Lake used the cowbell to great effect too. This was part of The Brats Are Back tour when they returned from the U.S. I saw the them at the Horden on their Sydney leg.

[MsChooky69]

miss shirl. rip. :(

[zorazen2]

35 Years Ago-Changing City.

Rooftop Rhapsody.

No Eureka!

CBC MLC

Musically Marvellous.

Belting Beat. Hot Hit.