Love, Loathing, Rock'n'Roll
Cold Chisel, Australia's most successful band of the late 1970s and early 1980s, have reunited. Their reunion album, 'The Last Wave Of Summer', was released in September 1998. Cold Chisel are unique within Australian rock. In 1983, their series of Last Stand concerts set a gross record that still stands. They have sold more records since break-up than while they were performing. Internationally, only a select number of acts have achieved this. Their fan base has endured throughout a 15 year hiatus. It stretches from bikers to BMW buffs. It encompasses working, middle, professional and academic classes. Khe Sanh, their first single, is used by the Australian cricket team as their dressing room anthem.
There has never been a Cold Chisel biography, and in the traditional sense there will never be one. However, the band has opened the reformation, new recording and tour process to Anthony O'Grady. This tour biography uses the recording and touring process to trace how relationships within the band were formed, developed, split asunder, then reconnected.
