The 1982 Goanna’s hit Solid Rock was the first commercial song to use a didgeridoo,and featured lyrics referring to Australia’s settlement as ‘genocide’ The singer-songwriter Shane Howard sees the irony in receiving an Australia Day award for a song approximately the genocide of Indigenous inhabitants upon white settlement.
Howard wrote the 1982 hit single Solid Rock for his band, Goanna, and approximately the settlement of Australia.
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Source: theguardian.com