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"Beds Are Burning" is a 1987 song by the Australian rock band Midnight Oil, the first track from their album Diesel and Dust. This song was released as the second single from the album. This song was released as the second single from the album.
In early 2004, the duo's cover of Midnight Oil's 1988 hit "Beds Are Burning" became one of their highest-charting hits, peaking at no. 7 in Germany and no. 2 in Austria. It promoted their second album, Cubes , which reached no. 27 in Germany and no. 24 in Austria.
Francine Moran Hughes (later Wilson; August 17, 1947 – March 22, 2017) [1] was an American woman who, after thirteen years of domestic abuse, set fire to the bed in which her live-in ex-husband Mickey Hughes was sleeping, on March 9, 1977, in Dansville, Michigan. Mickey was killed and the house destroyed in the resulting fire.
"Beds Are Burning" "Blue Sky Mine" Aside from chart success, the Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) in 2001 listed both "Power and the Passion" and "Beds Are Burning" in the Top 30 best Australian songs of all time, [16] a chart in which Midnight Oil are the only artists to
It was followed by "Beds Are Burning" at number six, with both singles from the 1987 album Diesel and Dust which edged them into mainstream global recognition. In addition to number one in Australia, Diesel and Dust peaked at number 20 on the United Kingdom Albums Chart ; it was certified platinum in the US and three times platinum in Canada.
It was reported by NME on 6 July 2022 that Southeast Desert Metal had released their version of the Midnight Oil song "Beds Are Burning" that day. The chorus of the song was sung in Arrernte language. [9] Supported by acts Run and Primitive, SouthEast Desert Metal appeared at the Bendigo Hotel in Collingwood on 5 October 2023.
The Makarrata Project is the twelfth studio album by Australian band Midnight Oil, released on 30 October 2020 by Sony Music Australia.The album is the first new material from the band since 2002's Capricornia, their first studio album to hit #1 on the ARIA Charts since 1990's Blue Sky Mining, [2] and one of the final releases to feature bassist and backing vocalist Bones Hillman before his ...
The album, which included a cover of Midnight Oil's "Beds Are Burning", was released in Europe and Japan in 2001 and Pilson put together a short-lived live band and performed a handful of L.A. club shows.