Weekend Edition: Australian Popular Stars 20 Years Later

Someone who was a modestly successful popular star (a discover 1 or 2 together with a dozen other chartings) tin brand a living off one-time glories for most their life inwards America. The marketplace is sufficiently big.

But person of that condition has a much harder fourth dimension making ends run across inwards music inwards Australia. You tin be privileged to consider them amongst real little (and inwards this illustration respectful) audiences.

Below is 1 of my favourites from my 20s - Angie Hart - who is somewhat younger than me - together with was 1 of the starting fourth dimension Australian stars to sing inwards a actually rigid Australian accent.



The vocal is Elvis Costello's (similarly dated) vocal Shipbuilding - a storey most laid-off send builders inwards the North of England looking at the loss of tonnage inwards the Falklands War together with thinking they may teach a project at the shipyards. "Within weeks they volition live on reopening the shipyards, together with notifying the adjacent of kin". (If yous hit non know the lyrics they are reproduced at the terminate of this post.)

When I was inwards my 20s I was non real witting of Angie's Australian accent (and I had 1 this intense). 10 years of talking on phones internationally together with listening to Americans inwards item has changed the agency I speak. I withal audio Australian - but non similar that.

Here - xx something years agone - is the vocal for which Angie Hart is most famous - some other comprehend - this fourth dimension of a New Order song...



But what I notice actually foreign is that xx years subsequently the Frente comprehend of the New Order vocal has operate the agency to hit it - peculiarly inwards Asia where it was featured on Indonesian Idol (no non kidding).

And all over YouTube yous notice Chinese teenage girls inwards Malaysia or the Philippines or Republic of Indonesia or fifty-fifty mainland People's Republic of China singing New Order songs amongst a deliberate Australian accent. Here is 1 - at that topographic point are hundreds of others.

Fame on the mesh tin live on real strange.




John


Shipbuilding

Is it worth it
A novel wintertime coat together with shoes for the wife
And a bike on the boys birthday
Its only a rumour that was spread some town
By the women together with children
Soon good live on shipbuilding
Well I inquire you
The man child said dad they're going to accept me to task
But I'll live on dorsum past times christmas
Its only a rumour that was spread some town
Somebody said that person got filled in
For maxim that people teach killed in
The consequence of this shipbuilding
With all the volition inwards the world
Diving for honey life
When nosotros could live on diving for pearls
Its only a rumour that was spread some town
A telegram or a painting demo postcard
Within weeks they'll live on re-opening the shipyards
And notifying the adjacent of kin
Once again
Its all were skilled in
We volition live on shipbuilding
With all the volition inwards the world
Diving for honey life
When nosotros could live on diving for pearls
[ Lyrics from: http://www.lyricsfreak.com/e/elvis