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The laneway sits between TAFE SA’s city west campus and Hindley Street Music Hall. (ABC News: Michael Coggan)<\/p>\n
Brewster said the band’s first single, written by the late Doc Neeson, was “about somebody who passed away”.<\/p>\n
He said he was surprised the song made it into the Hottest 100 list.<\/p>\n
“It wasn’t a very big deal at the time but it seems to have become a big deal \u2014 that was incredible,” Brewster said.<\/p>\n
For many Australians, the song is often accompanied by profanity-laden chant.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“It’s just ironic that the response that’s happened, which is exactly in rhythm with my rhythm guitar, it’s Australian humour and I just think it’s fantastic, it’s a larrikin Australian,” he said.<\/p>\n
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The band was formed in the 1970s and inducted into the Aria Hall of Fame in 1998. (ABC News: Michael Coggan)<\/p>\n
“It wouldn’t happen in America.”<\/p>\n
Formed in Adelaide in the 1970s, the band was inducted into the Aria Hall of Fame in 1998.<\/p>\n
Band members old and new gathered at the opening today, but with the notable absence of bass player Chris Bailey, who died of throat cancer in 2013, and lead singer Bernard “Doc” Neeson who died from a brain tumour in 2014.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Brewster performs with fellow founding member and brother Rick, his sons Sam and Tom, and now-frontman Nick Norton.<\/p>\n
“Fifty years [anniversary] last year and this is year one, this is year one of the next chapter,” he said.<\/p>\n
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The laneway was officially opened at an unveiling ceremony on Monday. (ABC News: Michael Coggan)<\/p>\n
Laneway marks memory\u00a0<\/p>\n
In line with Adelaide’s 10th anniversary as UNESCO City of Music, Lord Mayor Jane Lomax-Smith said the transformation of the laneway recognised The Angels’ legacy.<\/p>\n
“This is special because The Angels are not just iconic, they actually produced an anthem for the whole of Australia,” she said.<\/p>\n
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Jane Lomax-Smith said it was a chance to say thank you. (ABC News)<\/p>\n
“It is a really significant day for us because we’d been able to celebrate, commemorate and actually say thank you to a band that have made us all really happy.”\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Adelaide City Council assigned The Angels Lane to a private road off Gawler Place in 2019, but council documents showed building owners did not endorse the installation of public artwork and commemorative plaques.<\/p>\n
The alternate location near Morphett Street was selected last year, according to council documents.<\/p>\n
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Founding band members John and Rick Brewster alongside Adelaide’s Lord Mayor. (ABC News: Michael Coggan)<\/p>\n
The band is among several Australian acts to have an Adelaide laneway named in their honour.<\/p>\n
Cold Chisel Lane was memorialised in 2021<\/a> near where Jimmy Barnes first joined the band almost 50 years earlier.<\/p>\nNo Fixed Address, Sia Furler and Paul Kelly have also had lanes named after them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The band behind some of Australia’s most beloved music has been immortalised with its own laneway in Adelaide’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42457,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[34599,64,63,37282,34600,37281,134,34594,37280,37279,37283],"class_list":["post-42456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-adelaide-city-council","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-city-laneway","tag-city-of-adelaide","tag-city-of-music-laneway","tag-entertainment","tag-jane-lomax-smith","tag-john-brewster","tag-the-angels","tag-west-end"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}