Scarred for Life by Rose Tattoo

Scarred for Life, Rose Tattoo's third album, came out in October 1982, and it's the Sydney street gang at their toughest and most anthemic. Harry Vanda and George Young, the pair behind the band's first four records, produced it, and the sound is pure pub-brawl hard rock soaked in the blues: Angry Anderson snarling up front, Peter Wells' slide guitar howling, Robin Riley on guitar, Geordie Leach on bass and Dallas Royall pounding the drums.

"We Can't Be Beaten" is the battle cry that did the damage, a fists-in-the-air rock anthem that carried the band well beyond Australia and turned Scarred for Life into their international breakthrough. At home, the album reached number 11 on the Kent Music Report.

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