Hot For The Orient

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Hot for the Orient

Studio album by Skyhooks

Released

1980

Skyhooks chronology

Guilty Until Proven Insane
(1978)

Hot for the Orient
(1980)

The Lost Album
(1999)

Hot for the Orient is a 1980 studio album from Australin glam rock band Skyhooks. This was the only album the band recorded without newly departed vocalist Graeme "Shirley" Strachan, instead with replacement vocalist Tony Williams as lead singer.

The album pruduced three singles: "Over the Border", "This Town is Boring" and "Keep the Junk in America". The respective B-sides were "Wrong Number Right Girl", "Is This Too Much or What", and "Rolls Royce in the Swimming Pool". Only "Over the Border", a political statement about the state of the police force in Queensland at the time, managed to chart in Australia, peaking at #32.^[1]

The album failed to chart in Australia, unlike their previous four studio albums which were all top 10 in Australia, and the band disbanded soon after. However, the band reformed in 1982 with their classic line-up of their early-mid 1970's success and began touring once again.

The album was re-printed on CD and re-relased as part of the Skyhooks Roadcase boxset in 1996. Copies of this album are still available but remain very rare, much like the band's previous studio album, Guilty Until Proven Insane.

All tracks written by Greg Macainsh.