It’s perhaps easy to forget just how big Mondo Rock were. Fun fact: They had more hit singles in the ’80s than Cold Chisel, Australian Crawl and Men At Work.
The Complete Anthologyis the definitive Mondo Rock story. All the hits, plus some classic album tracks and rarities. Two CDs, 30 songs. Never-before-seen photos. And a 10,000-word overview of the band’s remarkable career.
Featuring choice cuts from six studio albums, a Top 5 compilation and one EP, The Complete Anthology opens with Mondo Rock’s debut single, 1978’s ‘The Fugitive Kind’, and concludes with their final release, 1991’s ‘Soul Reason’. The Mondo Rock story started in 1976. Ross Wilson’s initial idea was to have temporary line-ups, and, indeed, many great musicians have been Mondo Rock members – more than 30 in all – including the classic line-up and current touring band, featuring Ross Wilson, Eric McCusker, James Black (a star of the RocKwiz Orkestra) and Paul Christie (who also had hits with The Party Boys).
Mondo Rock’s Chemistry hit number two in Australia and was declared the Best Australian Album of 1981 at the Countdown Awards.
