Here comes the 35th track in the Play It Again Mayhem series. This time it is the turn of Australian rock band Icehouse. They had their first Australian hit single in 1980 and continued to enter the Aussie top 50 up until 1990. They never really had a succession of worldwide hits until 1982’s “Hey Little Girl” which is now included in the Play It Again Mayhem playlist. The song charted in Australia, obviously, New Zealand, Austria, Switzerland, Germany, USA and the UK. Sadly it only reached number 17 in the UK charts. It is a perky synthpop classic with some quite dark lyrics. The band still play isolated festivals and events. I was lucky enough to see them when they supported David Bowie, as did the Beat, at the Milton Keynes Bowl in 1983.
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