In the mid 80s Australian band Midnight Oil was one of the hottest box office draws on their continent, poised to sell out arenas around the country…But instead of accepting the lucrative payouts, they chose to tour the MOST remote areas of the region- for a pittance of what they could’ve made. In these places, singe Peter Garrett and his band witnessed the harsh conditions and poor health that ran amok within the communities they toured in. For decades the people were mistreated by the government, Outraged by what they saw, the band created a song that conveyed their fury and beseeched the public to join them in a crusade to fight… Beds are Burning because one of the defining protest anthems of 1987 from their 80s masterpiece Diesel and Dust... The story behind their biggest American hit of the is that actually brought about real change is NEXT…. on Professor of Rock!!” Thank you to this Episodes Sponsor, Zenni GET ZENNI Glasses HERE: https://imp.i279709.net/vn5gLd ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Executive Producer Brandon Fugal Honorary Producers Holly Hoskinson, rondell merrill, Jude, Jase Bosarge, Chad Sites, Tim Muñoz, Super Nostalgia, and John Shoemaker ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out my Hand Picked Selection Below Professor's Store - Van Halen OU812 Vinyl Album https://amzn.to/3tLsII2 - The 80s Collection https://amzn.to/3mAekOq - 100 Best Selling Albums https://amzn.to/3h3qZX9 - Ultimate History of 80s Teen Movie https://amzn.to/3ifjdKQ - 80s to 90s VHS Video Cover Art https://amzn.to/2QXzmIX - Totally Awesome 80s A Lexicon https://amzn.to/3h4ilrk - Best In Ear Headphones (I Use These Every rDay) https://amzn.to/2ZcTlIl ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check Out The Professor of Rock Merch Store -http://bit.ly/ProfessorMerch ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check Out Patron Benefits http://bit.ly/ProfessorofRockVIPFan Help out the Channel by purchasing your albums through our links! As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases at no extra cost to you, thank you for your support. Click here for Premium Content: https://bit.ly/SignUpForPremiumContent https://bit.ly/Facebook_Professor_of_Rock https://bit.ly/Instagram_Professor_of_Rock #classicrock #80smusic #vinylstory #midnightoil Hey music junkies, Professor of Rock, always here to celebrate the greatest artists and the greatest songs of all time. If you remember the one to grow on ads during Saturday Morning Cartoons in the 80s YOu’ll dig this channel of Nostalgia. Make sure to subscribe right now and click the bell so you are notified when our latest interviews and videos drop. Hop in the time machine every day with us…We’re also putting up full interviews and other content on our Patreon. Your support there helps us keep this a daily channel. And you can even become an honorary producer to help us curate this music history. If you’ve ever attended a live performance by Midnight Oil, you know what I mean when I say their concerts are a blistering experience!! Back in their prime, they blew away their rivals to earn a reputation as one of the best live acts around, not just in the Land Down Under where the group originated, but the entire world. Midnight Oil never wanted to be anything other than Midnight Oil. As trite as that may sound, it is a succinct way to explain that band achieved GREAT fame without ever compromising artistic integrity. Midnight Oil has sold over 20 million records around the globe, and between 1978 and 2004, twenty-four Midnight Oil singles charted in Australia. The band is so revered in OZ that their 1987 album Diesel and Dust was named the #1 Australian Album of All Time in the 2010 publication ‘The 100 Best Australian Albums.' Let me put it this way…The runner-up was AC/DC’s landmark 1980 LP…Back in Black… Midnight Oil’s Diesel and Dust features the band’s one and only national hit in America….a song the band wrote about injustices wreaked upon the Aboriginal communities of the Australian Outback called…”Beds are Burning. ”In the early 70s, Rob Hirst, Andrew James, and Jim Moginie were bosom high school buddies that jammed together in the northern suburbs of Sydney. The trio assembled a band that played Beatles covers named Schwampy Moose. In ’76 the boys changed the name of the group to Farm. Hirst played drums, Mognine performed guitar & keyboards, and James the bass. Martin Rosen came on board later that year. What the band needed was a frontman that could help ignite national attention, so they put out an advertisement in the classified section of the Sydney