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Incredible Penguins – Happy Xmas (1985)

by Matt Fulton December 20, 2016
written by Matt Fulton December 20, 2016

An Aussie supergroup who gigged at the pub release a track for charity.

In 1985, a supergroup assortment band that hung out at a local Melbourne pub to purely jam to the crowd came up with an idea to do something worthwhile to raise money for charity. The charity being a colony of penguins that were dying off along the coastlines. Hence the name The Incredible Penguins.

Insert the following gathering of 80s musicians – Steve Donald and Wendy Stapleton (Wendy and The Rocketts),  Craig Johnston and Marcel Rodeka (Mother Goose), Wayne Matthews and Jim Keays (The Masters Apprentices), John Moon (W.H.Y.), Angry Anderson (Rose Tattoo), Brian Canham (Pseudo Echo), Chris Stockley (The Dingoes), Scott Carne (Kids in the Kitchen), Steve Gilpin (Mi-Sex), Colin Hay (Men at Work), Brian Mannix (Uncanny X-Men), Colleen Hewett, John Farnham, Venetta Fields, and Bob Geldof.

Together, they perform a rendition of John Lennon‘s Happy Xmas (The War Is Over) under the producing eye of Molly Meldrum.

It reached Number 10 in the Australian music charts.

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