Midnight Oil
Australia
Formed: 1975
Died: 02 December 2002
Years Active: 70, 80, 90, 2000
Genres: Pop/Rock
Styles: Alternative/Indie Rock, Album Rock, Hard Rock, College Rock, Adult Alternative Pop/Rock, Alternative Pop/Rock, Aussie Rock
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Australia's Midnight Oil brought a new sense of political and social immediacy to pop music: not only did incendiary hits like "Beds Are Burning" and "Blue Sky Mine" bring global attention to the plight of, respectively, aboriginal settlers and impoverished workers, but the group also put its money where its mouth was -- in addition to mounting benefit performances for groups like Greenpeace and Save the Whales, frontman Peter Garrett even ran for the Australian Senate on the Nuclear Disarmament Party ticket. The band formed in Sydney in 1971 a...
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