The rock quintet Men at Work and their cheeky video for “Down Under” were the MTV generation’s first exposure to anything Australian. While American audiences had been exposed to music from the Bee Gees, Olivia Newton-John, and Little River Band, and AC/DC had broken big with their Back in Black album in 1980, Men at […]
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