Men at Work initially broke through to North American audiences in the western provinces of Canada with "Who Can It Be Now?" hitting the top10 on radio stations in Winnipeg by May 1982. It peaked at No.8 on the Canadian RPM Top Singles Chart in July. [16] In August the group toured Canada and the United States to promote the album and related singles, supporting Fleetwood Mac. [7] [8] The band became more popular on Canadian radio in the following months and also started receiving top40 US airplay by August. [17] In October "Who Can It Be Now?" reached No.1 on the US Billboard Hot 100, [18] while Canada was one single ahead with "Down Under" topping the Canadian charts that same month. [16] In the following month Business as Usual began a 15-week run at No.1 on the Billboard 200. [18] a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r Nimmervoll, Ed. "Men at Work". Howlspace – The Living History of Our Music (Ed Nimmervoll). White Room Electronic Publishing Pty Ltd. Archived from the original on 26 July 2012 . Retrieved 7 February 2014. Fletcher, Alex (30 July 2009). "Men At Work accused of plagiarism". Digital Spy . Retrieved 2 July 2014. Ulaby, Neda (1 December 2009). "A Kookaburra Causes Trouble 'Down Under' ". Npr.org . Retrieved 17 August 2010. Ability to be your whole self at work. The culture and environment in workplaces, and interactions not just with colleagues but also customers and service users; the public stances an employer takes on LGBT+ issues, and the impact this has on staff

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While "Who Can It Be Now?" was still in the topten in the US, "Down Under" was finally released in that market. It entered the US charts at No.79 and tenweeks later, it was No.1. [18] By January 1983 Men at Work had the top album and single in both the US and the UK – never previously achieved by an Australian act. [7] "Be Good Johnny" received moderate airplay in the US; it reached the top20 in Canada. [16]

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a b c Hung, Steffen. "Discography Men at Work". New Zealand Charts Portal. Hung Medien . Retrieved 8 February 2014. Being nominated for multiple Grammys and winning the 1990 VMA’s best group video for ‘Love Shak’, the B-52s have rightfully stated their claim as musical stars.Almost a third of non-binary people (31 per cent) and one in five trans people (18 per cent) don’t feel able to wear work attire representing their gender expression. On 13 February 2009, former Men at Work band member Ron Strykert was arrested for allegedly making death threats against Hay. [39] [40] In 2006 Hay provided his voice for one of the characters in the computer-animated film The Wild. [3]

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Countdown is an Australian pop music TV series that aired on national broadcaster ABC-TV from 1974 to 1987, it presented music awards from 1979 to 1987, initially in conjunction with magazine TV Week. The TV Week / Countdown Awards were a combination of popular-voted and peer-voted awards. [42] Year I so appreciated his concern. At that point, we’d had a lovely 90-minute lunch—and this was still on that partner’s mind. He wanted my guidance, which was helpful because different people would have wanted different things. I told him that although I hadn’t worked with this client very long, at some point, I would take it up with him directly. I didn’t need the partner to do it. But the fact that he wanted my counsel on what to do—and was very willing to take an action—really stood out to me as a moment of feeling supported. Tribe 8, who are sadly no more, are considered one of the first queercore bands with some of the punks’ most influential LGBTQ musicians. Taking their name from tribade, a homosexual sexual practice, you don’t get queerer than this! Who Can It Be Now?":– " 'Who Can It Be Now?' in Canadian Singles Chart". RPM. Library and Archives Canada. 36 (25). 31 July 1982. Archived from the original on 24 February 2014 . Retrieved 8 February 2014.The nucleus of Men at Work formed in Melbourne around June 1979 with Colin Hay on lead vocals and guitar, Ron Strykert on bass guitar, and Jerry Speiser on drums. They were soon joined by Greg Ham on flute, sax and keyboards, and then John Rees on bass guitar, with Strykert switching to lead guitar. [7] Hay had emigrated to Australia in 1967 from Scotland with his family. [8] In 1978, he had formed an acoustic duo with Strykert, which expanded by mid-1979 with the addition of Speiser. Around this time as a side project, keyboardist Greg Sneddon (ex-Alroy Band), [7] [9] a former bandmate of Jerry Speiser, together with Speiser, Hay and Strykert, performed and recorded the music to 'Riff Raff", a low budget stage musical, upon which Sneddon had worked. In 2002, Hay released his seventh studio album Company of Strangers and the video album Live at the Continental recorded in 2000. [3]