ARIA Music Awards of 1988

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1988 ARIA Music Awards
Date29 February 1988 (1988-02-29)
VenueSheraton Wentworth Hotel,
Sydney, New South Wales
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Website ariaawards.com.au
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The Second Australian Recording Industry Association Music Awards (generally known as the ARIA Music Awards or simply The ARIAs ) was held on 29 February 1988 at the Sheraton Wentworth Hotel in Sydney. [1] [2] [3] Cliff Richard was the host, with Bryan Ferry, Feargal Sharkey and Ian "Molly" Meldrum included as presenters of the 21 awards. [1] Other presenters were Rudi Grassner (RCA/BMG boss), Col Joye and Richard Wilkins. [4] There were no live performances and the awards were not televised. [1] A shouting match developed between manager Gary Morris, accepting awards for Midnight Oil, and former Countdown compere Meldrum who was presenting. [1] [4]

Contents

Some significant changes were made for the second ARIA Awards. In addition to the categories for the inaugural year, "Best Children's Album" was added. [1] The ARIA Hall of Fame was also created, with six acts being inducted: AC/DC, Slim Dusty, Col Joye, Johnny O'Keefe, Dame Joan Sutherland and Vanda & Young. [1] Finally an "Outstanding Achievement Award" was created and first awarded to John Farnham. [1]

Ceremony details

Midnight Oil won "Best Cover Art" for Diesel and Dust and both "Best Single" and "Best Song" for "Beds Are Burning". [1] [2] A shouting match developed between manager Gary Morris, accepting awards for Midnight Oil, and former Countdown compere Ian "Molly" Meldrum who was presenting: [1] [2]

I think Molly was a little precious. He was in awe of Bryan [Ferry], whereas I had an attitude about bringing over offshore artists to present at a local awards [...] I said something like, 'The Poms look at us as being pretty archaic down here, but we've got room service. You could have ordered an iron, mate'. [5]

— Gary Morris

Morris had also objected to ARIA's award category, Best Indigenous Release, as some nominees (including Midnight Oil themselves) had no Indigenous members. [4] Meldrum objected to Morris' political commentary from the podium and the making jokes at the expense of Bryan Ferry who was wearing a (deliberately) crumpled suit: [1] [2]

I pointed out that Gary was staying in one of the very expensive hotel rooms, on behalf of Midnight Oil [...] Then I said, 'If we're talking about disrespect, what was he doing up here accepting the awards and not Midnight Oil'. Then it all boiled over. [5]

— Ian Meldrum

Karen Middleton of The Canberra Times was disappointed by the ceremony where "[i]nsults flowed almost as freely as the wine and all three of the international guest presenters fell victim to flimsy jokes and foolishness". [2] She felt that Morris was "winner of the unofficial prize for least-liked personality. ... [he] aimed a poor one-liner at British presenter Bryan Ferry". [2] However the "greatest revelation of the evening proved that there are more sore losers in the business than the small screen would lead us to believe. When a winner happened to be a little unpopular, the beautiful people booed". [2]

Awards and nominations

Winners are listed first and bolded, other final nominees (where known) are listed alphabetically. [1] [2] [6]

ARIA Awards

Fine Arts Awards

Artisan Awards

Outstanding Achievement Award

ARIA Hall of Fame inductees

The inaugural Hall of Fame inductees were: [1] [2]

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