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Ian Moss
Ian Richard Moss (born 20 March 1955) is an Australian rock musician from Alice Springs. He is the founding mainstay guitarist and occasional singer of Cold Chisel. In that group's initial eleven year phase from 1973 to 1984, Moss was recorded on all five studio albums, three of which reached number one on the national Kent Music Report Albums Chart. In August 1989 he released his debut solo album, ''Matchbook'', which peaked at number one on the ARIA Albums Chart. It was preceded by his debut single, "Tucker's Daughter", which reached number two on the related ARIA Singles Chart in March. The track was co-written by Moss with Don Walker, also from Cold Chisel. Moss had another top ten hit with "Telephone Booth" in June 1989. At the ARIA Music Awards of 1990 Moss won five categories: Album of the Year, Best Male Artist, Breakthrough Artist – Album, Single of the Year and Breakthrough Artist – Single. Since then his solo music career has been more ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matchbook (Ian Moss Album)
''Matchbook'' is the debut solo studio album by Australian singer-guitarist, Ian Moss, a member of pub rockers, Cold Chisel. Six of its ten tracks were written by fellow Cold Chisel bandmate, Don Walker, and three were co-written by Moss and Walker. The album was released in August 1989 and peaked at number 1 on the ARIA Albums Chart; it remained in the Top 10 for 14 weeks and shipped more than 200,000 copies. It also reached the Top 20 on the Official New Zealand Music Chart. Moss described the album's sound to Beryl Cook of ''The Canberra Times'', "it's definitely fairly R&B with a white soul edge to it, with a hint of rock and roll and plenty of big guitar over the top." ''Matchbook'' provided four singles, "Tucker's Daughter" (November 1988, which reached No. 2 on the ARIA Singles Chart), "Telephone Booth" (June 1989, No. 7), " Out of the Fire" (September, No. 29) and "Mr. Rain" (December). "Tucker's Daughter" also peaked at No. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Worlds Away (Ian Moss Album)
''Worlds Away'' is the second studio album by Australian singer Ian Moss, a former member of Cold Chisel Cold Chisel are an Australian pub rock band, which formed in Adelaide in 1973 by mainstay members Ian Moss on guitar and vocals, Steve Prestwich on drums and Don Walker on piano and keyboards. They were soon joined by Jimmy Barnes (at the .... Like its predecessor, the album featured several songs written for him by Don Walker, also from Cold Chisel. The album was released in October 1991 and peaked in the top 50 in Australia and New Zealand. Track listing Charts References 1991 albums Ian Moss albums Mushroom Records albums {{1990s-pop-album-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Telephone Booth (song)
"Telephone Booth" is a song written by Don Walker and recorded by Australian singer Ian Moss, released in June 1989 as the second single from his debut studio album, ''Matchbook'' (1989). It peaked at No. 7 on the ARIA Singles Chart. Background Ian Moss was the founding mainstay guitarist, and some time singer, for Australian rock group, Cold Chisel, which he formed with Don Walker on keyboards in 1973.McFarlane, . Archived frothe originalon 28 June 2004. Retrieved 2 September 2019. After Cold Chisel disbanded in 1984, Moss took a break from his music career, which he resumed in 1986. During 1988 Moss worked in Los Angeles for nine months preparing material for his debut album, ''Matchbook''. In November 1988 he released his debut single, "Tucker's Daughter", which peaked at number two on the ARIA Singles Chart and number six on the New Zealand Singles Chart. Moss' second single, "Telephone Booth", was issued in June 1989, which reached number seven on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Let's All Get Together
''Let's all Get Together'' is the fifth studio album by Australian musician Ian Moss. The album was released in July 2007 and is Moss' second acoustic album following '' Six Strings'' in 2005. Reception Brett Winterford from Sydney Morning Herald said "The album finds Moss in fine voice - better than in his Cold Chisel days." adding "but the album does lack some of the magic he is nostalgic for -something that only sparked when Cold Chisel Cold Chisel are an Australian pub rock band, which formed in Adelaide in 1973 by mainstay members Ian Moss on guitar and vocals, Steve Prestwich on drums and Don Walker on piano and keyboards. They were soon joined by Jimmy Barnes (at the ...'s five sometimes-volatile characters were in the same room." JB HiFi said "Never has there been a more intriguing and satisfying fusion of rock, soul, jazz and blues and it’s all delivered in Mossy’s trademark laid-back style." Track listing Charts Personnel *Ian Moss - Vocals, Guitar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cold Chisel
Cold Chisel are an Australian pub rock band, which formed in Adelaide in 1973 by mainstay members Ian Moss on guitar and vocals, Steve Prestwich on drums and Don Walker on piano and keyboards. They were soon joined by Jimmy Barnes (at the time known as Jim Barnes) on lead vocals and, in 1975, Phil Small became their bass guitarist. The group disbanded in late 1983 but subsequently reformed several times. Musicologist Ian McFarlane wrote that they became "one of Australia's best-loved groups" as well as "one of the best live bands", fusing "a combination of rockabilly, hard rock and rough-house soul'n'blues that was defiantly Australian in outlook." Eight of their studio albums have reached the Australian top five, ''Breakfast at Sweethearts'' (February 1979), ''East'' (June 1980), '' Circus Animals'' (March 1982, No. 1), '' Twentieth Century'' (April 1984, No. 1), '' The Last Wave of Summer'' (October 1998, No. 1), '' No Plans'' (April 2012), '' The Per ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Advertiser (Adelaide)
''The Advertiser'' is a daily tabloid format newspaper based in the city of Adelaide, South Australia. First published as a broadsheet named ''The South Australian Advertiser'' on 12 July 1858,''The South Australian Advertiser'', published 1858–1889 National Library of Australia, digital newspaper library. it is currently a tabloid printed from Monday to Saturday. ''The Advertiser'' came under the ownership of in the 1950s, and the full ownership of in 1987. It is a publication of Advertiser Newspapers Pty Ltd (ADV), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Government Of Australia
The Australian Government, also known as the Commonwealth Government, is the national government of Australia, a federalism, federal parliamentary system, parliamentary constitutional monarchy. Like other Westminster system, Westminster-style systems of government, the Australian Government is made up of three branches: the executive (the Prime Minister of Australia, prime minister, the Ministers of the Crown, ministers, and government departments), the legislative (the Parliament of Australia), and the Judiciary of Australia, judicial. The legislative branch, the federal Parliament, is made up of two chambers: the House of Representatives (Australia), House of Representatives (lower house) and Australian Senate, Senate (upper house). The House of Representatives has 151 Member of parliament, members, each representing an individual electoral district of about 165,000 people. The Senate has 76 members: twelve from each of the six states and two each from Australia's internal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Department Of Veterans' Affairs (Australia)
The Department of Veterans' Affairs is a department of the Government of Australia, established in 1976, and charged with the responsibility of delivering government programs for war veterans, members of the Australian Defence Force, members of the Australian Federal Police, and their dependants. The current Secretary of the Department of Veterans' Affairs is Elizabeth Cosson, who succeeded Simon Lewis as secretary on 19 May 2018. For administration purposes, the department forms part of the Defence portfolio. The Minister for Defence acts on behalf of the Minister for Veterans' Affairs within the Cabinet. Operational activities The functions of the department are broadly classified into the following matters: * Repatriation income support, compensation and health program for veterans, members of the Defence Force, certain mariners and their dependants *Commemorations, including promotion of understanding of Anzac Day, Remembrance Day and Vietnam Veterans' Day * War gr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Government Of Northern Territory
The Government of the Northern Territory of Australia, also referred to as the Northern Territory Government, is the Australian territorial democratic administrative authority of the Northern Territory. The Government of Northern Territory was formed in 1978 with the granting of self-government to the Territory. The Northern Territory is a territory of the Commonwealth of Australia, and the Constitution of Australia and Commonwealth law regulates its relationship with the Commonwealth. Under the Australian Constitution, the Commonwealth has full legislative power, if it chooses to exercise it, over the Northern Territory, and has devolved self-government to the Territory. The Northern Territory legislature does not have the legislative independence of the Australian states but has power in all matters not in conflict with the Constitution and applicable Commonwealth laws, but subject to a Commonwealth veto. Since 13 May 2022, the head of government has been Chief Minister Nat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allied Works Council
The Allied Works Council was an organisation set up to oversee and organise military construction works in Australia during World War II. Established in February 1942, the Allied Works Council was responsible for carrying out any works required by the Allied Forces including providing any equipment, materials or workmen required to carry out these works. Edward Granville Theodore, a former Premier of Queensland The premier of Queensland is the head of government in the Australian state of Queensland. By convention the premier is the leader of the party with a parliamentary majority in the unicameral Legislative Assembly of Queensland. The premier is ap ... (1919–25) and Federal Treasurer (1929–31) was appointed Director-General of the Council. References External linksAllied Works Council Information [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bombing Of Darwin
The Bombing of Darwin, also known as the Battle of Darwin, on 19 February 1942 was the largest single attack ever mounted by a foreign power on Australia. On that day, 242 Japanese aircraft, in two separate raids, attacked the town, ships in Darwin's harbour and the town's two airfields in an attempt to prevent the Allies from using them as bases to contest the invasion of Timor and Java during World War II. Darwin was lightly defended relative to the size of the attack, and the Japanese inflicted heavy losses upon Allied forces at little cost to themselves. The urban areas of Darwin also suffered some damage from the raids and there were a number of civilian casualties. More than half of Darwin's civilian population left the area permanently, before or immediately after the attack. The two Japanese air raids were the first, and largest, of more than 100 air raids against Australia during 1942–1943. The event happened just four days after the Fall of Singapore, when a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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