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Boom Crash Opera are an Australian pop rock band formed in early 1985. Initially they were based around the songwriting partnership of Richard Pleasance on guitar, bass guitar and vocals; and Peter Farnan on guitar, bass guitar, keyboards, and vocals. Pleasance developed tinnitus from constant exposure to loud live music & left in 1992 to pursue a solo career as an artist & producer. The group includes Dale Ryder on lead vocals; Peter 'Maz' Maslen on drums, percussion and vocals; Greg O'Connor on keyboards and guitar; and from 1992 Ian Tilley on bass guitar and vocals. Their top 20 albums are ''Boom Crash Opera'' (September 1987), ''These Here Are Crazy Times'' (October 1989), and ''Fabulous Beast'' (March 1993). Their top 20 singles are "Great Wall", "Hands up in the Air" (both 1986), "Onion Skin" (1989) and "Gimme" (1994). In the United States "Onion Skin" reached No. 8 on the ''Billboard'' component chart, Modern Rock Tracks. Australian musicologist, Ian McFarlane, noted that the group had a "strong visual image and the uncanny ability of its principal songwriters to pen catchy, commercial songs ensured a string of successful releases". ==Formation and early years== Boom Crash Opera were formed in early 1985 in Melbourne with a line up of Peter Farnan on guitar, keyboards and backing vocals (ex-Urtle Urtle Urtle, Serious Young Insects); Peter Maslen on drums, percussion and backing vocals (ex-One Hand Clapping); Greg O'Connor; Richard Pleasance on bass guitar, guitar and backing vocals (ex-Government Drum, Bang, One Hand Clapping); and Dale Ryder on lead vocals.〔〔 Serious Young Insects had formed in 1980 with Peter Farnan on vocals and guitar, Michael Vallance on vocals and bass guitar and Mark White on vocals and drums.〔 Australian musicologist, Ian McFarlane, described Serious Young Insects as a "quirky, three-piece Melbourne new wave band".〔 They issued an album, ''Housebreaking'' (May 1982), and three singles.〔〔 Lisa Perry of ''The Canberra Times'' praised the album "several times I had to check the cover to see if there were not also some session musos or others contributing to the sounds I was hearing. For a three-piece combo, these lads sure make a good sound".〔 Pleasance, a classically trained guitarist,〔 was a fan and briefly joined the group before it broke up in the following year.〔 In September 1985 three Australian journalists, Paul Gardiner, Jane Gardiner and Toby Creswell, listed twelve groups as The Next Big Thing, with Boom Crash Opera described as "()ne name that stands out ... a Melbourne band that has every A-and-R man and his dog salivating. There are some other bands which, if not attracting the same sort of frenetic endorsement, are nevertheless on the minds of the scouts".〔 Note: cited section is on (page 72 ).〕 Farnan described his band mates, other than Pleasance, to ''The Canberra Times'' Pollyanna Sutton in May 1986 "()he others are sort of from nowhere ... Mas, Peter Maslin the drummer, has done a lot of sessions, he met Richard in this avante-garde band called One Hand Clapping. Then they played together with Vanessa Fields for a while. Dale came out of the blue, he has done some singing with bands but never had a serious crack at it until now. Greg is literally from nowhere."〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Boom Crash Opera」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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