Any artists in Australia showing any inclinations towards Stock, Aitkin and Waterman style pop are immediately deported to England and told not come home until they have amassed 30 gold records. Kylie may have to come home soon but the others mentioned below will be on a life sentence. Hrr, hrr, haarrr so you're stuck with Jason (Panto) Donovan and Peter (what happened to my shirt) Andre forever.
That reminds me to have a quick look around for some more ambitious "idol" types to send over. Expect a new batch of Australian pop lite, muscle bound, underwear models or ex soapy stars soon. What's all this got to do with Pink Floyd's "Division Bell"? Well, nothing really but it is a little more entertaining than the lame add on the "Division Bell" is to the Pink Floyd catalogue. Phew, finally got these comments back on track.
Oh, yes, feel free to send over as many Kylie's as you like, but please make the Jason Donovan types stay home. We've suffered long with Australia's #1 top music representative Peter Andre as it is.
But I'd have thought you Ausies might not take too well to what is a wholesale "Camp" fest.
Billy cans not required...
Oh, yes Apollo59, we have taken over south East Asia and when we win Eurovision we will control the musical world. Australasia is a "boilermaker" that is/was used sometimes by the majors for Australian product. I always wondered if it actually did appear in other markets as well. Your entry here Apollo is the plain garden variety of Made In Australia. The Made In Australasia moniker started to appear in the late 70's early 80's around the time RCA was shutting down the LP pressing plants around Australia and using the Wellington (NZ) plant to produce a lot of LPs.
So, Apollo, although I'm not responsible for the Australasian tag or my country's endless ambition I do concede the area of the world we're taking about is in fact South East Asia. Australasia, indeed, hrmmph.
That would be Australasian then Apollo59 but we have no category for that so it ends up in the international "catch all". This is a problem the other way around too. CDs from around the world released in Australia are also automatically international but it is so hard to prove without going back to the actual catalogues.
Contains 3 songs that should never have been near a Pink Floyd album - enter Polly Samson aka Mrs. David Gilmour on lyric writing duties. Is it any wonder that Roger Waters sneered in derision?