During 1989–1993 and 1998–2002 Garrett was the President of the Australian Conservation Foundation , whilst during 1993–1998 he was on the International Board of Greenpeace . In 1990 Midnight Oil played an impromptu lunchtime set in front of Exxon headquarters in New York with a banner reading, “Midnight Oil Makes…
Read More
In late 1990, Cindy Wilson took time off from the band, with Julee Cruise filling in for her on tour. The B-52s released Good Stuff in 1992 as a trio—the only album release on which Cindy Wilson was not present—and the title track reached number 28 that August. The album…
Read More
A 2-CD live album, Join Together , was released in 1990.
The a cappella ” Tom’s Diner ” from Solitude Standing became a hit in 1990, having been remixed by two English electronic music producers under the name DNA . The track was originally a bootleg , until Vega allowed DNA to release it through her record company, and it became…
Read More
In Sydney in 1990, while Midnight Oil were taking a break, Hirst joined up with guitarist Andrew Dickson, drummer Dorland Bray of Do-Ré-Mi , guitarist Leszek Karski (Midnight Oil producer) and bass guitarist Rick Grossman of Hoodoo Gurus to form a side project called Ghostwriters .
The band’s origins trace back to the early 1990s, with frontman Stephan Jenkins writing music, but struggling to hold together a consistent musical lineup. Originally, Jenkins started his music career as one half of an interracial rap duo Puck and Natty with musician Herman Anthony Chunn, who went by the…
Read More
In 1990, the Who (Roger Daltrey, John Entwistle, Keith Moon and Pete Townshend) were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame . Daltrey, Entwistle and Townsend attended the induction and performed with the house band, while Moon’s daughter Amanda attended to represent her father. The group have a…
Read More
Vega’s third studio album, Days of Open Hand (1990), combines Vega’s established folk rock style with more varied instrumentation such as the ney and dumbec and experimental arrangements. High-profile contributors to the album include Philip Glass , Shawn Colvin , and John Linnell of They Might Be Giants . The…
Read More
Mercury was increasingly ill and could barely walk when the band recorded “The Show Must Go On” in 1990.
The band spent most of the 1990s touring without releasing an album of new material, although they did contribute two new songs to the Bad Channels movie soundtrack, released in 1992, and also released an album of re-recorded songs from the band’s original lineup, called Cult Classic , in 1994.…
Read More