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Live Line
''Live Line'' is double live album by Australian hard rock band The Angels originally released in December 1987. It reached No. 3 in Australia and No.14 in New Zealand. Description The collection spanned ten years of the band's career. The majority of the album was recorded at the Bankstown RSL Club in Sydney, with some tracks taken from earlier tours featuring John Brewster. A live version of "Am I Ever Gonna See Your Face Again" was issued as a single, as was a medley of "Love Takes Care" and "Be with You". Following the success of the album, The Angels embarked on a massive tour of Australia with a lengthy three-hour show, with three sets chronologically spanning a significant portion of the band's history. The remastered CD version was released on 8 February 1999 by Shock Records as a double live album and included several songs not included on the vinyl release. Reception ''Smash Hits'' said, "It could hardly fail with half the songs being basically the band's greates ...
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The Angels (Australian Band)
The Angels are an Australian rock band which formed in Adelaide in 1974 as The Keystone Angels by Bernard "Doc" Neeson on lead vocals and bass guitar, John Brewster on rhythm guitar and backing vocals, his brother Rick Brewster on lead guitar and backing vocals, Peter "Charlie" King on drums. In 1976, King was replaced by Graham "Buzz" Bidstrup on drums, Chris Bailey took over bass duties so Neeson could focus solely on vocals, and they changed their name to just 'The Angels'. Their studio albums peaking within the Australian top 10 are ''No Exit'' (1979), ''Dark Room'' (1980), '' Night Attack'' (1981), ''Two Minute Warning'' (1984), ''Howling'' (1986) and ''Beyond Salvation'' (1990). Their top 20 singles are " No Secrets" (1980), " Into the Heat" (1981), "We Gotta Get out of This Place" (1987), "Am I Ever Gonna See Your Face Again" (live, 1988), "Let the Night Roll On" and "Dogs Are Talking" (both 1990). In the international market, to avoid legal problems with s ...
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Shadow Boxer
"Shadow Boxer" is a song by Australian hard rock group The Angels, released in June 1979 as the lead and only single from the group's third studio album, ''No Exit''. Note: Used for Australian Singles and Albums charting from 1974 until Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) created their own charts in mid-1988. In 1992, Kent back calculated chart positions for 1970โ€“1974. "Shadow Boxer" first charted on the Kent Music Report Singles Chart on 11 June 1979, peaking at number 25 during a 14โ€‘week chart run. It was co-written by band members, John Brewster, Doc Neeson and Rick Brewster. Note: For additional information user may have to select 'Search again' and then 'Enter a title:' or 'Performer:' Track listing ; AP11934 # "Shadow Boxer" (Doc Neeson, John Brewster, Rick Brewster) - 2:40 # "Planned Obsolescence" (Doc Neeson, John Brewster, Rick Brewster, Chris Bailey, Graham "Buzz" Bidstrup) - 5:03 Personnel * Doc Neeson โ€” lead vocals * Rick Brewster โ€ ...
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The Angels (Australian Band) Albums
Angels are a type of creature present in many mythologies. Angel or Angels may refer to: Places * Angel (river), in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany * Angel, London, an area of London ** Angel tube station ** The Angel, Islington, a building from which it is named * Angel City, Florida, a populated place * Angel Falls, a waterfall in Venezuela * Angel Hill, a mountain in Otsego County, New York * Angel Island (California), in San Francisco Bay * Angel Mounds, Indiana, a Native American complex of earthworks and a National Historic Landmark * Angeln or Angel (Danish), a peninsula in Germany * Angels Camp, California, formerly called Angels * Los Angeles, translation from Spanish (lit.โ€‰'The Angels') People * Angel (given name) * Angel (surname) Stage name or nickname * Angel (American singer) (born 1988), former member of No Secrets * Angel (British musician) (born 1987), British hip hop singer-songwriter and rapper * รngel (Spanish singer), 1980s disco singer * Angel, fema ...
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ARIA Charts
The ARIA Charts are the main Australian music sales charts, issued weekly by the Australian Recording Industry Association. The charts are a record of the highest selling songs and albums in various genres in Australia. ARIA became the official Australian music chart in June 1988, succeeding the Kent Music Report, which had been Australia's national music sales charts since 1974. History The ''Go-Set'' charts were Australia's first national singles and albums charts, published from 5 October 1966 until 24 August 1974. Succeeding ''Go-Set'', the Kent Music Report began issuing the national top 100 charts in Australia from May 1974. The compiler, David Kent, also published Australia's national charts from 1940 to 1974 in a retrospective fashion using state-based data. In mid-1983, the Australian Recording Industry Association commenced licensing the Kent Music Report chart. The first printed national top 50 chart available in record stores, branded the ''Countdown'' chart, was ...
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Australian Recording Industry Association
The Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) is a trade association representing the Australian recording industry which was established in the 1970s by six major record companies, EMI, Festival, CBS, RCA, WEA and Universal replacing the Association of Australian Record Manufacturers (AARM) which was formed in 1956. It oversees the collection, administration and distribution of music licenses and royalties. The association has more than 100 members, including small labels typically run by one to five people, medium size organisations and very large companies with international affiliates. ARIA is administered by a Board of Directors comprising senior executives from record companies, both large and small. History In 1956, the Association of Australian Record Manufacturers (AARM) was formed by Australia's major record companies. It was replaced in the 1970s by the Australian Recording Industry Association, which was established by the six major record companies operati ...
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St Ives, New South Wales
St Ives is a suburb on the Upper North Shore of Sydney in the state of New South Wales, Australia 18 kilometres north of the Sydney Central Business District in the local government area of Ku-ring-gai Council. St Ives Chase is a separate adjacent area, designated suburb, to the west and north. History The St Ives area was first explored by Governor Arthur Phillip and a party of men in 1788 where they set up a campsite at Bungaroo which is close to what is now Hunter Avenue. The area produced a small-scale timber felling industry. There are still some examples of the thirty-metre and higher trees in nearby Pymble in the Dalrymple-Hay Nature Reserve and near Canisius College. Native turpentine trees were also once abundant and provided useful timber for cabinet making. It was once known for its apple orchards, but due to residential demand, there is no longer any commercial fruit growing in the area. During the Second World War there were significant numbers of troops barrac ...
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Bill Price (record Producer)
Bill Price (3 September 1944 โ€“ 22 December 2016) was an English record producer and audio engineer who worked with The Clash, The Sex Pistols, Guns N' Roses, Sparks, The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Nymphs, The Waterboys, Mott the Hoople and Simon Townshend (Pete Townshend's younger brother). He was chief engineer on the first three solo albums by Pete Townshend, including ''Empty Glass'' and '' White City: A Novel''. He contributed to documentaries about The Clash such as ''Westway To The World''. Price started his engineering career in the mid-1960s when he was an engineer at Decca Studios in West Hampstead, recording artists such as Tom Jones. One of the final recordings he helped engineer at Decca before departing to AIR Studios in November 1969 was the multi-million-selling "Reflections of My Life" by The Marmalade. Price helped build AIR Studios in Oxford Street, where he spent many years. During that time he engineered some of the major albums of the 1970s and 1980s S ...
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Brent Eccles
Brent Eccles is best known as the drummer for The Angels, an Australian pub rock band. He has also drummed in: The Breed, Vox Pop, Stuart & The Belmonts, Streetalk, Space Waltz, After Hours, and Citizen Band. Eccles left Citizen Band in 1981, after successfully auditioning for The Angels and remained there until they split up in 2000. During this time he also managed Johnny Diesel & The Injectors, The Poor and The Angels. He is the father of former Betchadupa drummer, and now Das Pop drummer Matt Eccles.''Howlspace''Accessed 15 February 2010 Today Brent lives in New Zealand and runs his own agency Brent Eccles Entertainment as well as representing Frontier Touring, A Day On The Green and Liberation Music. Along with Campbell Smith, Brent also heads Civic Events who run the annual Acoustic Church Tour and the Winery Tour. In October 2018 he was presented with the Fullers Entertainment Award from the Variety Artists Club of New Zealand The Variety Artists Club of New Zealand ...
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Bob Spencer
Robert F. Spencer (born 5 September 1957) is an Australian rock guitarist. He was a latter day member of Skyhooks (1977โ€“1980) and the Angels (1986โ€“1992). Spencer joined Rose Tattoo in 2017. As a songwriter he co-wrote tracks for the Angels, including sole writer for their single " Finger on the Trigger" (1988), which reached the ARIA Singles Chart top 40. Biography Robert F. Spencer, Note: For additional work user may have to select 'Search again' and then 'Enter a title:' &/or 'Performer:' grew up in Sydney's Eastern suburb, Maroubra and attended Our Lady of Annunciation Primary School, at Pagewood, New South Wales from 1963 to 1965 and Marist Brothers, at Daceyville from 1966 to 1969. In 1970, he started secondary education at Marist Brothers Pagewood (later named Marist College, and then called Champagnat Catholic College Pagewood). He was a founding member of the rock band Finch in 1973 while attending Marist Brothers Pagewood, where he completed his Higher Sc ...
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John Brewster (musician)
John Carrington Brewster-Jones (born 9 November 1949) is an Australian guitarist who has played in a number of Australian rock bands, including The Angels and The Party Boys.McFarlane (1999). Encyclopedia entry fo'The Angels' Retrieved 31 January 2010.Spencer et al, (2007Brewster, Johnentry. Retrieved 31 January 2010. NOTE: Used for Australian Singles and Albums charting from 1974 until ARIA created their own charts in mid-1988. In 1992, Kent back calculated chart positions for 1970โ€“1974. His fatherhttps://www.stpeters.sa.edu.au/news/the-angels-rock-saints/# "Their father was head celloist of the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, and their grandfather was conductor of the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra and founding member" and grandfather Hooper Brewster-Jones were notable musicians. Career In 1970, Brewster, with his brother Rick Brewster and Doc Neeson, formed Moonshine Jug & String Band in Adelaide, the band evolved into The Keystone Angels in 1973. An appearance at the 1975 Su ...
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Doc Neeson
Bernard Patrick "Doc" Neeson OAM (4 January 1947 โ€“ 4 June 2014) was an Australian singer-songwriter and musician. He was the front man for the hard rock band The Angels from its formation in February 1976 through to 1999. The band then split up and reformed in 2008 after a lengthy legal battle where Doc resumed his place as front man. For the group, Neeson was the main singer-songwriter and was the driving force behind the band being propelled into stardom for a period spanning over three decades. Their top 20 studio albums on the Australian Kent Music Report Albums Chart are '' Face to Face'' (June 1978), ''No Exit'' (June 1979), ''Dark Room'' (June 1980), '' Night Attack'' (November 1981), '' Watch the Red'' (May 1983), ''Two Minute Warning'' (November 1984) and ''Howling'' (October 1986). Their number-one album, ''Beyond Salvation'', on the ARIA Albums Chart appeared in February 1990 and was followed by another top 20 album, ''Red Back Fever'' (November 1991). The ...
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Take A Long Line
"Take a Long Line" is a song by Australian hard rock group the Angels, released in July 1978 as the second single from their second album, '' Face to Face''. The song peaked at number 29 on the Australian Kent Music Report. In January 2018, as part of Triple M's "Ozzest 100", the 'most Australian' songs of all time, "Take a Long Line" was ranked number 35. The song was largely written by band member Rick Brewster. In a 2018 interview with his brother and fellow band mate, John Brewster, on ABC Radio 774 in Melbourne, he said that many of the lyrics in the song were inspired by characters his brother had encountered on the streets of Kings Cross in Sydney. The year of its release (1978), The Angels supported both Meat Loaf and David Bowie on their respective tours of Australia. David Bowie actually asked the band to support him on his tour after hearing the Face to Face album and seeing The Angels live at a show at the Bondi Lifesaver club. Track listing ;AP 11759 # " ...
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