In Australia: Paul Kelly and the Coloured Girls
In North America and Europe: Paul Kelly and the Messengers
Australian singles chart:
The double-A-side single Leaps and Bounds / Bradman entered the Kent Music Report on 2 February 1987 and peaked at #51.
Album:
Leaps and Bounds is on Gossip which entered the Kent Music Report album charts on 27 July 1977 and peaked at #22.
Songwriters:
Paul Kelly (both songs), Chris Langman (Leaps and Bounds)
Producers:
Alan Thorne, Paul Kelly
Record label of Australian release:
Mushroom
Wikipedia:
After growing up in Adelaide, Paul Kelly travelled around Australia before settling in Melbourne in 1976. He became involved in the pub rock scene and drug culture and recorded two albums with the Dots. Kelly moved to Sydney by 1985, where he formed Paul Kelly and the Coloured Girls, the band’s name from a joke based on Lou Reed’s song Walk on the Wild Side. The band was renamed Paul Kelly and the Messengers, initially only for international releases, to avoid possible racial interpretations of the word “coloured”. At the end of the 1980s, Kelly returned to Melbourne, and in 1991 he disbanded the Messengers.
Read more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Kelly_(Australian_musician)
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