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Men At Work made a huge impact on the US pop charts in a short time. Here's a look at their five biggest hits in America.
Music fans often wonder about the people behind their favorite bands’ chart-topping hits. Men at Work, the Australian group that took the world by storm in the early 1980s, is no exception.
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Australia’s Men at Work marked a milestone in their American invasion, as their debut single, “Who Can It Be Now?” rose 2-1 on the Billboard Hot 100. Their next single, “Down Under ...
Hay still enjoys the Men At Work material, too. "It's really exciting and the audience really loves it. It's because of the fact that that music has got some kind of timeless quality to it," Hay says.
Men at Work knew this conundrum all too well. In a stunning stretch of two years, the band churned out four Top-10 singles, the last of which, "It's a Mistake," hit No. 6 in 1983.
"Down Under" and the album it was on, "Business As Usual," reached No. 1 on the Australian, American and British charts in early 1983. That year, Men at Work won the Grammy Award for Best New Artist.
The good news is Men at Work’s brief but distinctive catalog survives and endures. And Hay, now 71, hits the road often to play many of those hits along with cuts from his 15 solo albums.
Ham joined Men at Work in 1979 and played flute, saxophone, harmonica and keyboards in the group. He played the flute hook on “Down Under,” the band’s biggest international hit. In this article: ...
Men at Work, the Australian rock band known for its 1981 hit, “Down Under,” has lost its final court appeal to overturn a ruling that said the group had stolen the flute riff from its hit from ...