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Issue Details: First known date: 1988... 1988 Under the Milky Way
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"Under the Milky Way" is a single by Australian alternative rock band the church, and appears on their fifth studio album Starfish. The song won 'single of the Year' at the ARIA music awards of 1989.

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First known date: 1988
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Producers: Greg Ladanyi, Waddy Wachtel and The Church

Label: Mushroom and Arista

Genres: Alternative rock, neo-pyschedelia, dark wave

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      • First released 15 February 1988

        Recorded 1987, Los Angeles

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Works about this Work

Friday Essay: Under the Milky Way – How a ‘beautiful Accident’ of a Song Was Born and Became an Anthem Chris Gibson , 2022 single work column
— Appears in: The Conversation , 11 November 2022;

'Smiths Lake is a languid tidal inlet on the Australian east coast, flanked by gentle slopes of thick, eucalypt rainforest. Since time immemorial, this has been Worimi Aboriginal Country. Across a mile of shallow sandbars, warm seawater flows, twice a day. An eternal planetary rhythm fills and empties the lake.'  (Introduction)
Steve Kilbey Joins Gina Williams to Sing Under The Milky Way in Noongar Language Emma Wynne , 2016 single work column
— Appears in: ABC News [Online] , September 2016; 'Perth singer Gina Williams is committed to preserving the Noongar language through music, and a chance meeting with The Church's Steve Kilbey led to them unexpectedly performing an Australian classic together. ...'
Steve Kilbey Joins Gina Williams to Sing Under The Milky Way in Noongar Language Emma Wynne , 2016 single work column
— Appears in: ABC News [Online] , September 2016; 'Perth singer Gina Williams is committed to preserving the Noongar language through music, and a chance meeting with The Church's Steve Kilbey led to them unexpectedly performing an Australian classic together. ...'
Friday Essay: Under the Milky Way – How a ‘beautiful Accident’ of a Song Was Born and Became an Anthem Chris Gibson , 2022 single work column
— Appears in: The Conversation , 11 November 2022;

'Smiths Lake is a languid tidal inlet on the Australian east coast, flanked by gentle slopes of thick, eucalypt rainforest. Since time immemorial, this has been Worimi Aboriginal Country. Across a mile of shallow sandbars, warm seawater flows, twice a day. An eternal planetary rhythm fills and empties the lake.'  (Introduction)
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