Sirocco

Sirocco is the second album from Australian rock band Australian Crawl. It was released in July 1981 and on 3 August, it topped the Australian charts where it remained for six weeks, the band's first of two albums to hit #1. It was released a year after their successful debut The Boys Light Up which had reached No. 4. The album was recorded in March–April 1981 in Sydney and produced by Peter Dawkins. "I was approached by Australian Crawl, who were about to do their second album, Sirocco. They’d been tortured to death by David Briggs, or at least by his studio style, and needed a change. We got along incredibly well, it was all so comfortable. They played me twenty new songs, I gave them a list of the eleven I liked and we just said let’s go." Sirocco spent eight months in the Top 20 and was their most successful album. 1981 Australian End of Year Album Charts has Sirocco at No. 2 behind Double Fantasy by John Lennon and Yoko Ono, and ahead of AC/DC's Back in Black making it the best charting album by an Australian act. The album was named after Australian born actor Errol Flynn's yacht and included the second single from the album, a lyrical biography, called "Errol". From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sirocco...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)