Old music: Cold Chisel – Cheap Wine

Describing these Australians as pub rockers does them a grave disservice, no matter how uncool they seem Cold Chisel started out as pub rockers, but that workaday sobriquet sells them short – they're no small beer. Formidable and, at least as younger men, volatile on stage, their reputation was also forged with articulate songs touching on charged issues such as abortion and civil strife, and delivered with whip snare, searing guitar and soaring voice. They've filled arenas, not just bars, so ...

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