Biography
Australia's
Midnight Oil brought a new sense of political and social immediacy to
pop music: not only did incendiary hits like "Beds Are Burning" and
"Blue Sky Mine" bring global attention to the plight of, respectively,
aboriginal settlers and impoverished workers, but the group also put its
money where its mouth was -- in addition to mounting benefit
performances for groups like Greenpeace and Save the Whales, frontman
Peter Garrett even ran for the Australian Senate on the Nuclear
Disarmament Party ticket.
The band formed in Sydney in 1971 as Farm, and originally comprised guitarists Jim Moginie and Martin Rotsey, drummer Rob Hirst, and bassist Andrew "Bear" James; Garrett, a law student known for his seven-foot-tall stature and shaven head, assumed vocal duties in 1975, and the group soon rechristened itself Midnight Oil. After months of sporadic gigs, they began making the rounds to area record companies; following a string of rejections, the group formed its own … » Read more
The band formed in Sydney in 1971 as Farm, and originally comprised guitarists Jim Moginie and Martin Rotsey, drummer Rob Hirst, and bassist Andrew "Bear" James; Garrett, a law student known for his seven-foot-tall stature and shaven head, assumed vocal duties in 1975, and the group soon rechristened itself Midnight Oil. After months of sporadic gigs, they began making the rounds to area record companies; following a string of rejections, the group formed its own … » Read more
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