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Midnight Oil (known informally as "The Oils") are an Australian rock band composed of Peter Garrett (vocals, harmonica), Rob Hirst (drums), Jim Moginie (guitar ...
After Midnight Oil toured through the Outback in 1986, playing to remote Aboriginal communities and seeing first hand the seriousness of the issues in health and living standards, Peter Garrett, Jim Moginie and Rob Hirst wrote "Beds Are Burning" to criticise how said populations were often forcibly removed from their lands, highlighted by the pre-chorus lines "it belongs to them, let's give it ...
In 1984, Midnight Oil's Red Sails in the Sunset became their first number one album in Australia. It was the first of four in a row between 1984 and 1993. 1985 saw the release of the EP Species Deceases – the group's only number one entry on the Australian singles chart – which features the anti-war song "Hercules" and the environmentalist ...
Peter Robert Garrett AM (born 16 April 1953) [3] is an Australian musician, environmentalist, activist and former politician.. In 1973, Garrett became the lead singer of the Australian rock band Midnight Oil.
In 1990 Midnight Oil played an impromptu lunchtime set in front of Exxon headquarters in New York with a banner reading, "Midnight Oil Makes You Dance, Exxon Oil Makes Us Sick," protesting the Exxon Valdez oil spill the previous year. [9] "Arctic World" was written by Jim Moginie and Peter Garrett and runs for 4 minutes, 21 seconds.
"First Nation" is a song by Australian rock band Midnight Oil featuring Jessica Mauboy and Tasman Keith. The song was released on 25 September 2020 as the second single from the band's twelfth studio album The Makarrata Project; a themed mini-album of collaborations with Indigenous artists.
Nov. 9—Burning the midnight oil is nothing new for Rob Erickson. With a job where there is no typical day, there is at least a fairly regular time schedule for the Blugolds' head football coach ...
Resist is the thirteenth studio album [5] by Australian band Midnight Oil, released on 18 February 2022 by Sony Music Australia. [6] The album was supported by the band's final Australian and New Zealand tour, concluding in May 2022 [7] with guitarist Jim Moginie saying "We've played intensely physical gigs since our humble beginnings back in 1977 and we never want to take even the slightest ...