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''Sunnyboys'' is the debut studio album by the Australian power pop group of the same name. It was released in September 1981 on Mushroom Records, which peaked at No. 13 on the Australian Kent Music Report albums chart. For the album the group's line-up was Bil Bilson on drums, Richard Burgman on guitar, Jeremy Oxley on guitar and vocals, and his older brother, Peter Oxley, on bass guitar. It was recorded at Alberts Studios in Sydney between May and July 1981 with Lobby Loyde as producer. Two singles were released from the album: "Happy Man" (June 1981) and "Alone with You (October) – both reached the top 30 on the Kent Music Report singles chart. In October 2010 ''Sunnyboys'' was listed at No. 37 in the book, ''100 Best Australian Albums''. On 14 March 2014 the group issued an expanded 2× CD version, which reached the ARIA Albums Chart top 100. == Background == ''Sunnyboys'' was recorded by the group of the same name, which had formed in Sydney in July 1980 by the brothers, Peter (bass guitar) and Jeremy Oxley (guitar and vocals), together with Bil Bilson (drums) and Richard Burgman (guitar).〔 Their first public performance occurred on 15 August 1980, two months after formation. Within a few weeks the quartet were playing on an almost nightly basis at venues across Sydney’s pub and club circuit.〔 Among the band’s early fans was Jules Normington, the label owner of Phantom Records, who arranged for the band to make their first recording in October that year with the producer, Lobby Loyde (ex-Aztecs, Coloured Balls). The resulting self-titled 4-track 7" EP was released in December. The initial pressing of 1,000 copies was sold out in two weeks.〔 The EP was later remixed and reissued as a 12" EP.〔 In February 1981 Sunnyboys became the first Sydney-based band to sign with Mushroom Records.〔 From May they started recording ''Sunnyboys'' at Alberts Studio with Loyde producing again.〔〔 Their first release in June, on that label, was the lead single, "Happy Man", from the album which debuted at No. 26 on the Kent Music Report singles chart on 6 July.〔 In a later interview with Mess+Noise, Burgman commented on how the inspiration for the songs on the album had come from Jeremy's previous experiences, stating "It's very much a teenager's record, I think if you look at that first album in that light, the songs on the record are just stories." Peter concluded that in hindsight the songs on the record betray Jeremy's troubled soul. "At the time I knew that they were great lyrics, but you were concentrating on the music, and you didn't look at the lyrics as a 19-year-old in terms of how intense and deeply personal they were. Truly in hindsight you think, 'Oh my goodness, these lyrics Jeremy was writing were truly very heartfelt and soulful'. They were his real feelings at the time. They weren't third-party storytelling, they were real heart-on-the-sleeve stuff. The lyrics are incredible now when you're listening to them. I think the longevity of the songs really does relate to the intensity of those lyrics."〔 The album was released in September 1981 by Mushroom Records on vinyl, together with a limited release of 2,000 on yellow vinyl (this version had a slightly different track listing with "Happy Man" excluded and the inclusion of "Tell Me What You Say")〔 The album peaked at No. 13 on the national Kent Music Report album chart in October.〔 A second single, a new version of "Alone with You" (an earlier version had been previously included on the band's 1980 self-titled EP), was released in October reaching No. 28 on the national singles chart.〔 The album was certified gold status (shipment of 35,000 units) soon after its release and, in 2004, platinum accreditation (70,000 units). As from February 2014, the sales figures for the album are around the 100,000 mark. On 14 March 2014 the group issued an expanded two-CD edition. The first disc contains the original 12-track album followed by the eight tracks from the same recording session that were not included on the original release. The second disc, "New Kicks", contains the complete pre-recording demo session.〔 Later that month the album returned to the Australian national top 100 on the ARIA Albums Chart, (which had replaced the Kent Music Report in 1989). It also reached No. 58 on the ARIA Top 100 Physical Albums Chart and No. 12 on the ARIA Catalogue Albums Chart.〔 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「Sunnyboys (album)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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