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Icehouse is an Australian rock band, formed as Flowers in 1977 in Sydney. Initially known in Australia for their pub rock style, they later achieved mainstream success playing new wave and synthpop music and attained Top 10 singles chart success in both Europe and the U.S. The mainstay of both Flowers and Icehouse has been Iva Davies (singer-songwriter, record producer, guitar, bass, keyboards, oboe) supplying additional musicians as required. The name Icehouse, which was adopted in 1981, comes from an old, cold flat Davies lived in and the strange building across the road populated by itinerant people. Davies and Icehouse extended the use of synthesizers particularly the Sequential Circuits Prophet-5 ("Love in Motion", 1981), Linn drum machine ("Hey Little Girl", 1982) and Fairlight CMI (''Razorback'' trailer, 1983) in Australian popular music.〔〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=''Razorback'' trailer details )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=''Razorback'' (1984) full cast & crew )〕 Their best known singles on the Australian charts were "Great Southern Land", "Hey Little Girl", "Crazy", "Electric Blue" and "My Obsession"; with Top Three albums being ''Icehouse'' (1980, as Flowers), ''Primitive Man'' (1982) and ''Man of Colours'' (1987).〔 Icehouse's iconic status was acknowledged when they were inducted into the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) Hall of Fame on 16 August 2006.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=2006 ARIA Hall of Fame Awards )〕 ARIA described Icehouse as "''one of the most successful Australian bands of the eighties and nineties... With an uncompromising approach to music production they created songs that ranged from pure pop escapism to edgy, lavish synthesised pieces...''"〔 Icehouse has produced eight Top Ten albums and twenty Top Forty singles in Australia, multiple top ten hits in Europe and North America and album sales of over 28 times Platinum in Australasia alone.〔 As of 2006, ''Man of Colours'' was still the highest selling album in Australia by an Australian band.〔 ==1977–1981: Flowers== (詳細はbass player Keith Welsh.〔〔 Davies was working as a part-time cleaner at a squash court managed by Welsh's mother, they lived nearby and were both interested in forming a band. Additional musicians used by Flowers in 1978 were Michael Hoste on keyboards and Don Brown on drums.〔 The band built up a strong following as a live act around the pub circuit, providing distinctive cover versions of songs by Roxy Music, David Bowie, Lou Reed, T-Rex, Ultravox and Brian Eno.〔 By the middle of 1979 John Lloyd (ex-Paul Kelly and the Dots) replaced Don Brown on drums, with Anthony Smith (who was sometimes called Adam Hall), on keyboards, replacing Michael Hoste who remained associated with the band and later rejoined.〔 After signing to the independent Regular Records label, distributed by Festival, Flowers released their debut single in May 1980, "Can't Help Myself" (written by Davies),〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) ) Note: requires user to input song title e.g. CANT HELP MYSELF〕 which hit the Australian Top 10 in June 1980.〔 This was followed by their debut album ''Icehouse'', which reached No. 4 on the National albums chart〔 and became one of the year's biggest selling albums in Australia.〔 The album, co-produced by Cameron Allan (Mental As Anything's producer) and Davies,〔 made use of synthesisers, including the Minimoog, Solina Strings and Oberheim OB-1.〔 Hoste co-wrote four tracks with Davies and played additional keyboards,〔 with Smith continuing to provide the main keyboards.〔 Further singles "We Can Get Together" and "Walls" from ''Icehouse'' also hit the Top 20.〔 Flowers' popularity was recognised when they were awarded the 1980 ''TV Week'' / ''Countdown'' Rock Awards 'Johnny O'Keefe New Talent Award' ahead of The Dugites, INXS and Karen Knowles.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=''Countdown'' Archives show No. 241 )〕 They were also nominated for 'Best Album' and 'Best Album Cover' for ''Icehouse'' but lost on both to Cold Chisel's ''East'', Iva Davies was nominated as 'Best Songwriter' but lost to Cold Chisel's Don Walker.〔 At the award ceremony, Flowers performed "Icehouse" with Davies framed within a cube of white neon tubing.〔 In early 1981, Flowers signed to Chrysalis Records for European, Japanese, UK and U.S. releases;〔 they had to change their name due to legal restrictions and to prevent confusion with a Scottish group The Flowers.〔 Their last performance under the name Flowers was on 27 June 1981 at the Capitol Theatre in Sydney, they chose the name of their album to become known as Icehouse.〔 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「Icehouse (band)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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