Mushroom Evolution Concert | ||||
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Live album by Various artists | ||||
Released | 1982 | |||
Recorded | 26 January 1982 | |||
Genre | Pop, dance, rock | |||
Label | Mushroom, Liberation Blue | |||
Various artists chronology | ||||
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Mushroom Evolution Concert is a live album and video recorded by various Australian artists at celebratory performances held over two days of the Australia Day (26 January) weekend 1982. The Mushroom Evolution Concert was staged for Mushroom Records' tenth anniversary at the Myer Music Bowl and was organised by label boss, Michael Gudinski. It included a wide range of Australian performers from the label's roster. An estimated audience of 100,000 attended the concerts. In late 1972 Gudinski had been an artist manager and concert promoter when he and business partner, Ray Evans, founded Mushroom Records. The concert was recorded both for audio as a triple-LP and for video on double-VHS and released in 1982 under the same name. Subsequently, these were re-released on 2× CD (2005) and on 3× DVD (expanded with interviews, 2009) respectively. Although a prominent Mushroom Records artist from the 1972–1981 era, Skyhooks did not appear at the concert – they had disbanded in 1980.
Mushroom Evolution Concert was recorded at the concert of the same name which was organised by impresario Michael Gudinski for two days on the Australia Day (26 January) weekend in 1982. Gudinski, and fellow music agent Ray Evans, had formed Mushroom Records in late 1972. [1] The label's first album was an ambitious triple-LP live recording of the 1973 Sunbury Pop Festival. [1] In its first few years Mushroom released albums and singles by some of the most significant Australian rock acts of the period, including Madder Lake, Chain, The Dingoes and Skyhooks. [1] Success with Skyhooks' first few albums followed later by Split Enz and Models enabled Mushroom to dominate the Australian music industry into the 1990s. [1] In 1982, Mushroom Records celebrated its tenth anniversary by running the concert at the Myer Music Bowl and releasing the triple live album and a related VHS album of the same name later that year. [2] An estimated audience of 100,000 attended the concerts. [3] Although a prominent Mushroom Records artist from the 1972–1981 era, Skyhooks were not represented at the concert – they had disbanded in 1980.
Billy Miller is a former member of The Ferrets, Mike Rudd represented his earlier band Spectrum (later in Indelible Murtceps and Ariel). Paul Kelly was backed by Jo Jo Zep & The Falcons performing songs from his work as Paul Kelly & the Dots. [4] Both Chain and Madder Lake had reformed especially for the concert. The Fives included members from the original Ol' 55 line-up. [1] [3]
In 2009, Liberation Blue issued a triple-DVD of the two days of concert performances. The total time is approximately 420-minutes. Additional interviews are with Joe Camilleri (Jo Jo Zep & The Falcons), Sean Kelly (Models), Billy Miller, Mike Rudd, Kevin Borich, Mick Fettes (Madder Lake), Russell Morris, Matt Taylor (Chain), FJ Holden (Ol' 55) and Red Symons (Skyhooks). [5]
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Artist(s) | Length |
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1. | "She Took My Heart" | William Miller, Philip Miles [6] | Billy Miller & the Great Blokes | 3:28 |
2. | "Nice Legs, Shame About the Face" | John Ford, Robert Hudson [7] | Dave & the Derros | 2:10 |
3. | "Other Places" | Paul Brickhill, Paul Northam, Mark Kellet, Campbell Laird [8] | MEO 245 | 3:54 |
4. | "Love Comes, Love Goes" | Michael David Rudd [9] | Mike Rudd & the Heaters | 3:23 |
5. | "I'll Be Gone" | Rudd [10] | Mike Rudd & the Heaters | 3:41 |
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Artist(s) | Length |
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1. | "Counting the Beat" | Phil Judd, Wayne Stevens, Mark Hough [11] | The Swingers | 2:57 |
2. | "Don't Let Go" | Kevin Nicholas Borich, Garry Paige [12] | Kevin Borich Express | 4:25 |
3. | "Can't Help It" | Borich [13] | Kevin Borich Express | 4:33 |
4. | "Trouble in My Brain" | Jeremy Saxon Oxley [14] | The Sunnyboys | 4:02 |
5. | "Birthday" | John Lennon, Paul McCartney [15] | The Sunnyboys | 2:13 |
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Artist(s) | Length |
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1. | "Hand Me Down" | Paul Kelly, G Gadsby [16] | Paul Kelly with Jo Jo Zep & The Falcons | 4:49 |
2. | "Billy Baxter" | Kelly, Chris Langman [17] | Paul Kelly with Jo Jo Zep & The Falcons | 2:51 |
3. | "Love and Devotion" | [18] | Jo Jo Zep & The Falcons | 5:09 |
4. | "You Don't Know" | Keith Ansley Anderson [19] | Jo Jo Zep & The Falcons | 4:21 |
5. | "Happy Birthday I.B.M." | Andrew Duffield [20] | Models | 2:34 |
6. | "Local &/Or General" | Sean Patrick Kelly [21] | Models | 3:56 |
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Artist(s) | Length |
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1. | "Yes Indeed" | Wayne Geoffrey Burt [22] | Rock Doctors | 3:32 |
2. | "Goodbye Lollipop" | Michael Fettes, Jack Kreemers, Kerry McKenna, John McKinnon [23] | Madder Lake | 3:38 |
3. | "Song for Ernest" | Fettes, Kreemers, McKenna, Brenden Mason, Andy Cowan [24] | Madder Lake | 4:52 |
4. | "12lb. Toothbrush" | Fettes, Kreemers, McKenna, McKinnon [25] | Madder Lake | 7:46 |
5. | "The Heat of the Night" | [26] | Russell Morris & the Rubes | 4:32 |
6. | "Roar of the Wild Torpedoes" | Russell Norman Morris [27] | Russell Morris & the Rubes | 3:30 |
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Artist(s) | Length |
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1. | "How Come" | Stephen Cummings, Andrew Pendlebury [28] | The Sports | 3:15 |
2. | "Stop the Baby Talking" | Cummings, Pendlebury [29] | The Sports | 2:47 |
3. | "Black and Blue"; "Dust My Blues"; "Blow in D"; "My Arse Is Black with Bourke St" | Phil Manning, Barry Sullivan, Matt Taylor, Barry Harvey; [30] Elmore James, J Bihari; [31] Taylor, Manning, Sullivan, Harvey; [32] Taylor [33] | Chain | 8:58 |
4. | "I Remember When I Was Young" | Taylor [34] | Chain | 6:48 |
5. | "C'mon Let's Do It" | Glenn A. Baker, James Manzie [35] | The Fives | 2:25 |
6. | "On the Prowl" | Manzie [36] | The Fives | 3:18 |
7. | "Goodnight Sweetheart" | Calvin Carter, James Hudson [37] | The Fives | 2:26 |
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Artist(s) | Length |
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1. | "Sitting in Limbo" | G Bright, Jimmy Cliff [38] | Renée Geyer & Friends | 7:12 |
2. | "Say I Love You" | Edmund Montague Grant [39] | Renée Geyer & Friends | 5:31 |
3. | "Heading in the Right Direction" | Garry Paige, Punch [40] | Renée Geyer & Friends | 5:29 |
4. | "Stand By Me" | Ben E. King, Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller [41] | The Jam (featuring Broderick Smith) | 5:04 |
5. | "Johnny B. Goode" | Chuck Berry [42] | The Jam (featuring Angry Anderson, Matt Taylor) | 6:47 |
Chart (1982/83) | Peak position |
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Australia (Kent Music Report) [43] | 146 |
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