Clip Go the Years

To those of us of the Countdown generation, a culture-defining event took place exactly 30 years ago this week. Literally overnight, on March 1, 1975, like a scene out of The Wizard of Oz, Australian television went colour.

Suddenly, for better or worse, we could see the rainbow of satins in Skyhooks' stage costumes. Young girls across the nation felt as if they could reach through the screen and touch the near life-like tones of Daryl Braithwaite's exposed chest as he crooned: "Summer love, it's like no other love, oooh yeah ..."

-- From Dino Scatena 'Clip Go the Years' an article in the Sydney Morning Herald about the birth of the Australian Music Video and our role, basically via Russell Mulcahy, in the birth of MTV.

Good read.