“Boys In Town” by The Divinyls

Divinyls came out swinging in 1981 with "Boys in Town", their first single, a song Chrissy Amphlett, Mark McEntee and Jeremy Paul had written back in 1979. The Australian band had only formed in 1980 and were working the pubs and clubs when director Ken Cameron found them while making Monkey Grip, his film of Helen Garner's novel. They ended up scoring the whole picture, and Amphlett landed a supporting role as a temperamental rock singer modelled on herself.

"Boys in Town" came off that 1982 soundtrack, backed with "Only You", another song cut for the film, and went top ten at home, peaking at number eight. It's lean, hard-edged pub rock, Amphlett's vocal out in front of McEntee and Bjarne Ohlin's guitars, and it later turned up on the international edition of Desperate, their 1983 debut album.

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