Post by stefancrosscoe on Apr 29, 2021 9:15:30 GMT
Apr 29, 2021 6:39:08 GMT @deblovesbeccy said:
Yeah. Both Olivia Newton John and John Farnham identify as Australian even though they were born in England ‘cause they moved here with their families when they were very young and spent most of their lives here in Australia and have you ever seen the TV Movie/ Miniseries ‘Hopelessly Devoted to You’ ‘cause if you are a fan of Olivia Newton John I would recommend seeing it ‘cause it is about her life and has Delta Goodrem playing her who is probably our most successful female Pop singer of the past 20 years and done a great job playing her and performing the songs and I will post the trailer for it below along with Delta recently performing a cover of John Farnham's 'You're the Voice.' Yes. The Vines were pretty big here in the early 00s and along with Eskimo Joe and Jet were seen as one of our best Rock bands of the new decade at the time and had a number of hits like ‘Get Free’, ‘Homesick’, ‘Ride’, ‘Winning Days’ and Outtathaway’, that were heavily played on radio and Channel V here and I liked their first two albums but the lead singer was apparently a prick and he got a bad reputation for being violent and was always on the news for assaulting people including his Mother and having illegal drugs and that took a toll on the band and they stayed together and released more albums but were never able to recapture the glory of their early years, so to speak and fell off the radar. That has happened to a few Artists and Bands and their personal lives being in the spotlight has gone onto have a negative impact on their careers and overshadowed their music and it’s a shame when it happens ‘cause some of the Artists are very talented but are nasty individuals but there were a lot of good Aussie Rock bands in the late 90s and early 00s that went on to have a lot of success here and I think Eskimo Joe ended up being the best of the three but Powderfinger were the biggest Australian Rock band of the 00s here and had hit after hit but I don’t think they had any success overseas which is surprising and some of our smaller Artists and Bands did manage to achieve success in America and the UK while our bigger ones didn’t and and INXS and Little River Band are two of our biggest selling Rock bands of all time worldwide but they weren't as big as Midnight Oil or Cold Chisel here and both of them are usually listed on top of the Greatest Aussie Rock Bands of All Time lists 'cause they had a lot of hits here. One of our biggest selling bands (The Wiggles) is a children's band and some of its original members started out as a Rock band called the Cockroaches but when they discovered they could make more money performing to children they formed the Wiggles and the Wiggles are still going today but there is only one original member left in the band and they replaced the others with younger members including their first female member, Emma who has been very successful on her own too and we often see that happen with older Rock bands and Uriah Heep has only got one original member left now but not to the popularity the Wiggles are still having and the Wiggles are guaranteed to still be around for many more years to come. Will talk more on Saturday and hope you are having a good week.
Yeah, it is sad, to see talent go to waste, or especially those how are really blessed with having much of it, but who never is able of finding an audience, either because of wrong kind of people, surrounding them, or that it just were not gonna happen. I guess internet, has thankfully made it a bit easier, for some of those, to maybe attract or gather an audience, in a way, which might not be very likely, a few decades ago, when you had to have a big video or radio hit, or go on tour, for most of the year, to be seen and heard.
I hope you continue on, having a good week and an even better weekend, and I guess we might catch up.
