| January
|
*
The Aztecs, La De Das and Friends perform at the Myer Music
Bowl in Melbourne to an audience estimated in excess of 200,000
people
* The first Sunbury Festival, headlined by Billy Thorpe, Max
Merritt, Spectrum and Chain, attracts 35,000
* Masters
Apprentices release their final album 'A Toast to Panama
Red'
* Daddy Cool release
'Sex, Dope, Rock'n'Roll: Teenage Heaven'
* Dragon forms in Auckland |
| March |
*
Johnny Farnham
crowned King Of Moomba |
| August
|
*
Ross Wilson announces Daddy
Cool are splitting up, and the band play their farewell
concert in the Much More Ballroom |
| September
|
*
Billy Thorpe and
The Aztecs release 'Aztecs Live!' featuring material from
Sunbury, and it reaches #3 in Australia |
| October
|
*
Brian Cadd releases his debut solo single, 'Ginger Man', and
his self titled debut album
* Timm Finn and Phil Judd form Split
Ends |
| November |
*
Gough Whitlam elected to become the first Labor Prime Minister
in 25 years |
| December
|
*
Country Radio issue their first album 'Country Radio Live' |
|
|
* Country
Radio tour Canada
|
