Skyhooks band biography outlines

Skyhooks was an Australian rock band of the s, sometimes classified as a glam rock band, although this is mainly the result of the band&#;s flamboyant costumes and makeup.
The band shocked conservative middle Australia with their outrageous (for the time) costumes, lyrics, and on-stage activities, leading to seven of the ten tracks on their first album being banned from commercial radio.

Much of the group&#;s success derived from its distinctive repertoire, most of which was penned by bassist Macainsh.
Although Skyhooks was not the first Australian rock band to write songs in Australia, about Australians, for Australians (rather than ditties about love or songs about New York or other foreign lands), they were the first band to do so and be commercially successful, and the songs were set apart from much of the pop fare of the time thanks to Macainish&#;s mordant humour.
The &#;Hooks were the Australian pop success story of their era.

Their first album, Living in the Seventies, ro