Single:
Are You Old Enough entered the Australian singles chart* on 14 August 1978 and was a #1 hit. The song was #13 on the Top 100 of 1978.
Album:
The song is on O Zambezi which entered the Australian albums chart* on 18 September 1978 and peaked at #3.
Songwriter:
Paul Hewson
Producer:
Peter Dawkins
Record label of Australian release:
Portrait
*Kent Music Report / Australian Chart Book. See About.
Wikipedia:
Are You Old Enough? by New Zealand rock band Dragon was released in August 1978 while the band was based in Australia. It was the first single from the group’s fifth studio album O Zambezi.
The song was sung delectably by Marc Hunter with uncredited backing vocals by Renée Geyer.
Dragon relocated from Auckland, New Zealand to Sydney, Australia in May 1975. The band broke up for the first time in December 1979. They were together again from 1982 to 1997, then reformed in 2006.
Foundation (1972) band member Todd Hunter is still in the band today, while Marc Hunter died of throat cancer in 1998.
Read more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Are_You_Old_Enough?
Lyrics:
Ten years in the jailer’s eye
An’ I’m thinkin’ ’bout my baby
Looking at my life go by
Falling in the streets of Rome
An’ I’m laughing at the poor man
Talking to the blind man
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