''Ego Is Not a Dirty Word'' is the second

studio album An album is a collection of audio recordings issued on compact disc (CD), Phonograph record, vinyl, audio tape, or another medium such as Digital distribution#Music, digital distribution. Albums of recorded sound were developed in the early ...

released by Australian rock band,

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, in July 1975. The album was the follow-up to their highly successful debut album, ''

Living in the 70's ''Living in the 70's'' is the debut album by Melbourne band Skyhooks. Released in October 1974 on the Mushroom Records label, the album achieved relatively little success until early 1975. It spent 16 weeks at the top of the Australian album cha ...

'' (1974). As with the former album, it was also produced by Ross Wilson. The album spent 11 weeks at the number-one spot in the Australian

Kent Music Report The Kent Music Report was a weekly record chart of Australian music singles and albums which was compiled by music enthusiast David Kent from May 1974 through to January 1999. The chart was re-branded the Australian Music Report (AMR) in July ...

Albums Chart and sold over 200,000 copies. Two singles were lifted from the album, "

Ego Is Not a Dirty Word ''Ego Is Not a Dirty Word'' is the second studio album released by Australian rock band, Skyhooks, in July 1975. The album was the follow-up to their highly successful debut album, '' Living in the 70's'' (1974). As with the former album, it wa ...

" and "All My Friends are Getting Married". The American release of the album contained "Horror Movie" and "You Just Like Me 'Cause I'm Good in Bed" from their first album in place of tracks 9 and 10. The album was re-released by

Mushroom Records Mushroom Records was an Australian flagship record label, founded in 1972 in Melbourne. It published and distributed many successful Australian artists and expanded internationally, until it was merged with Festival Records in 1998. Festival Mu ...

in 1997. At the Australian 1975 King of Pop Awards the album won Most Popular Australian Album. At the 1975 Australian Record Awards, the album won Group Album of the Year.

Track listing

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Certifications

Personnel

;Skyhooks * Shirley Strachan – lead vocals *

Red Symons Redmond Symons (born 13 June 1949) is an English-born Australian musician, and television and radio personality. He was the lead guitarist in the band Skyhooks, the snide judge of 'Red Faces' (a segment of the long-running variety show ''Hey H ...

– guitar, backing vocals *Bob "Bongo" Starkie – guitar, backing vocals *

Greg Macainsh Gregory John Macainsh (born 30 December 1950) is an Australian former musician and songwriter. He provided bass guitar and backing vocals for pop rockers, Skyhooks from 1973 to 1980 and subsequently for various reformations. According to Austra ...

– bass guitar, backing vocals *Imants Alfred Strauks – drums, percussion, backing vocals ;Additional musicians * Ross Wilson (as Duke Wilson) - producer * Peter Jones – Fender Rhodes piano (tracks 2,8), marimba and vibes (1), chimes (3),

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s (4) * Greg Sneddon – Arp synthesiser (10) * Andy Cowan Mini Moog (10) * Col Loughnan – tenor and baritone saxophones (6) *

Pat Wilson Pat Wilson (born Patricia Mary Higgins; 11 June 1948) is an Australian singer and journalist. Wilson wrote for ''Go-Set'', a 1960s and 1970s pop music newspaper, under the pen-name "Mummy Cool" during 1971–1972. Wilson released several s ...

– finger cymbals (1) * Ross Wilson – Yamaha synthesiser (1), vocal harmonies * Ian Mason – harmony vocals (8) * Jenny Keath – harmony vocals (1)

References

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* {{Authority control 1975 albums Skyhooks (band) albums Glam rock albums by Australian artists Mushroom Records albums