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December 3, 2002

Garrett Quits Midnight Oil

Singer fronted Australian band for more than twenty-five years
April 17, 2001

Aussies Bail on U.S. Tour

Midnight Oil, INXS, Men at Work scrap Great Australian Bite tour
December 24, 1998

Midnight Oil Re-Discover Their Political Agenda

new album
December 23, 1998

Power and the Passion

Midnight Oil re-discover their political agenda on "Redneck Wonderland"

Breathe

Peter Garrett sings with the solemn air of a funeral director in "Surf's Up Tonight," one of the 13 tracks on Midnight Oil's startling new album. There are no wipeout guitars, no squealing vocal harmonies. Instead, the song moves at a methodical march tempo, slowly gathering momentum. "There's a...

1996 RS: 3.5of 5 Stars

Earth and Sun and Moon

1993

Scream in Blue Live

1992

Blue Sky Mining

1990

Diesel And Dust

1987

Red Sails in the Sunset

1985

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Peter Garrett of Midnight Oil (Interview)

Biography

For more than 25 years, Midnight Oil raged and rolled as the antinuclear, pro-environmental conscience of Australian rock. At the height of the band's international fame, in the 1980s, Midnight Oil was favorably compared to the Clash, with good reason: The Oils' U.S. debut, 10, 9, 8 is a stunning, sunbaked answer to London Calling. Midnight Oil's ferocious jeremiad against corporate greed and...

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