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Southern Stars is the fourth studio album by Australian hard rock band Rose Tattoo. The album was recorded with Angry Anderson on lead vocals, Geordie Leach on bass guitar and new members Greg Jordan on slide and lead guitars, John Meyer on guitar and Scott Johnston on drums. It peaked at No. 30 on the Kent Music Report albums chart. Anderson explained the band's high turn-over rate, "people who got the chop were those who just couldn't cut it musically... [they] thought that a 30-day tour was a 30-day party. Some of them just could not be told... If you want to make it overseas you have to approach it intelligently and professionally". Southern Stars, with production by Vanda & Young, had the band moving in a more AOR style, but retaining their hard rock, boogie blues style. AllMusic's reviewer rated it at two-and-a-half stars out-of-five. A writer for The Canberra Times observed, "[it's] imbued with a sense of awareness that may surprise more than a few followers... [while] still holding fast to the pure principles of 'rock 'n roll'." Its lead single "I Wish", reached No. 32 on the Kent Music Report singles chart. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Souther...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)