Their 1st album, Business as Usual, set the record for the virtually all weeks at first on the U.S. charts for a debut album. Too when "Down Under", a hits "Who Can It Be Now?" & "Be Good Johnny" were mass produced into successful & popular cds in the period of MTV's early years. Two "Who Can It Be Now?" & "Down Under" hit first in the United States. One of a virtually all successful albums of the early 1980's, Business as Usual has been certified for 6 million sales in the United States and an estimated 15 million copies worldwide.

A band's 2nd album, 1983's Cargo, was somewhat less successful, reaching number trine on the U.S. stock & index charts and qualified by owning Three million sales in the United States. 3 hit singles emerged from either that album, "It's a Mistake" (benumb captain hicks in the U.S.), "Overkill" (total Trio in the U.S.) & "Dr. Heckyll and Mr. Jive" (total Xxviii in the U.S.).

In a season charted the release of Freight, a b& fired John Rees and Jerry Speiser. Whilst their third album, Two Hearts, was released within 1985 to relatively little profits (single 500,000 copies sold in a United States), the remainder of the original band broke higher. 2 Hearts featured just 1 minor hit, "Everything I Need", which failed to crack a Top 40 on the U.S. stock and index charts, striking total 47.

Band members
Colin Hay, lead vocals and guitar Ron Strykert, guitar, vocals John Rees, bass vocals Greg Ham, saxophone, flute, keyboards vocals Jerry Speiser, drums vocals

Discography
Keypunch Operator (1979) Business as Usual (1982) Cargo (1983) Two Hearts (1985) Brazil (1998)