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{{Infobox Single <!-- See Misplaced Pages:WikiProject_Songs -->
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| Name = The Boys Light Up
{{Infobox song
| Cover = BoysLightUp-AC.jpg
| Cover size = | name = The Boys Light Up
| Border = | cover = BoysLightUp-AC.jpg
| Caption = | alt =
| Artist = ] | type = single
| Album = ] | artist = ]
| A-side = "The Boys Light Up" | album = ]
| B-side = "Boot Hill" | A-side = The Boys Light Up
| Released = May 1980 | B-side = Boot Hill
| released = April 1980
| Format = ]
| Recorded = | recorded =
| Genre = ] | studio =
| venue =
| genre = ]
| Length = 4:41 | length = 4:41
| Label = ] | label = ]
| Writer = ] | writer = ]
| Producer = ] | producer = ]
⚫ | prev_title = ]
| Audio sample? =
| Certification = | prev_year = 1979
⚫ | next_title = ]
⚫ | Last single = "]"<br />(1979)
| next_year = 1980
| This single = "''''''The Boys Light Up''''''"<br>(1980)
⚫ | Next single = "]"<br />(1980)
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"'''The Boys Light Up'''" is the second single and title track released by ]n ] band ] from their debut album '']'' (1980). The song was written by lead singer ].<ref name="APRA">{{cite web |url=http://www.apra.com.au/site/public/searchworksresult.stm |title=] |publisher=]|accessdate=2008-03-07 }} {{Dead link|date=November 2010|bot=H3llBot}}</ref><ref name="OzRockDb">{{cite web|url=http://hem.passagen.se/honga/database/a/australiancrawl.html|work=]|title=Australian Crawl|publisher=Magnus Holmgren|accessdate=2008-03-07}}</ref> "'''The Boys Light Up'''" is the second single and title track released by ]n ] band ] from their debut album '']'' (1980). The song was written by lead singer ]<ref name="APRA">{{cite web|url=http://www.apra.com.au/site/public/searchworksresult.stm |title=Australasian Performing Right Association |publisher=] |accessdate=2008-03-07 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080124161012/http://www.apra.com.au/site/public/searchworksresult.stm |archivedate=January 24, 2008 }}</ref><ref name="OzRockDb">{{cite web| archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20131022063048/http://hem.passagen.se/honga/database/a/australiancrawl.html | url = http://hem.passagen.se/honga/database/a/australiancrawl.html | last1 = Holmgren | first1 = Magnus | first2 = Stefan | last2 = Warnqvist | first3 = Oliver | last3 = Draper | first4 = Bill | last4 = McDonough | title = Australian Crawl | publisher = ]. Passagen.se (Magnus Holmgren) | archivedate = 22 October 2013 | accessdate = 23 March 2014 }}</ref>


Australian Crawl's producer ] was the ]’s guitarist, and had helped them to a recording contract with ].<ref name="McF">{{cite book |title=] |url=http://www.informationbrasil.com.br/diversao/musica/biografias/AUSTRALIAN%20CRAWL.doc |format=doc |last=McFarlane |first=Ian |authorlink= Ian McFarlane |publisher=] |year=1999 |isbn=1-86448-768-2 |accessdate=2008-03-01}}</ref> "The Boys Light Up" peaked at #22 on the Australian Singles Chart.<ref name="Kent">{{cite book|title=]|last=Kent|first=David|authorlink=David Kent (historian)|publisher=Australian Chart Book|location=], N.S.W.|year=1993|isbn=0-646-11917-6|accessdate=2009-03-24}} NOTE: Used for Australian Singles and Albums charting from 1970 until ] created their own ] in mid-1988.</ref> Australian Crawl's producer ] was the ]'s guitarist, and had helped them to a recording contract with ].<ref name="McF">{{cite book |title=Encyclopedia of Australian Rock and Pop |url=https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofau00mcfa |format=doc |last=McFarlane |first=Ian |authorlink=Ian McFarlane |publisher=] |year=1999 |isbn=1-86448-768-2 |accessdate=2008-03-01 |url-status= |df=dmy-all |url-access=registration }}</ref> "The Boys Light Up" peaked at #22 on the Australian Singles Chart.<ref name="Kent">{{cite book|title=]|last=Kent|first=David|authorlink=David Kent (historian)|publisher=Australian Chart Book|location=], N.S.W.|year=1993|isbn=0-646-11917-6}}</ref>


The song contains the ] "dorseted", to rhyme with "corseted". The song contains the ] "dorseted", to rhyme with "corseted".
<blockquote>"People aren't used to hearing 'Dorseted', and it's not actually a word - it's from the Dorset Gardens - I'm trying to be as suburban as possible, and it rhymed with 'corseted'." - James Reyne, 2003<ref name="Love">{{cite web |url=http://www.abc.net.au/tv/love/episodes/transcript5.htm |title=''Love is in the air'' Episode 5: "National Anthems"; transcript of interview with James Reyne |publisher=] |date=2003-11-09 |accessdate=2008-03-02 }}</ref></blockquote> <blockquote>"People aren't used to hearing 'Dorseted', and it's not actually a word - it's from the Dorset Gardens - I'm trying to be as suburban as possible, and it rhymed with 'corseted'." - James Reyne, 2003<ref name="Love">{{cite web |url=http://www.abc.net.au/tv/love/episodes/transcript5.htm |title=''Love is in the air'' Episode 5: "National Anthems"; transcript of interview with James Reyne |publisher=] |date=2003-11-09 |accessdate=2008-03-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080128050744/http://www.abc.net.au/tv/love/episodes/transcript5.htm |archive-date=28 January 2008 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all }}</ref></blockquote>


⚫ The single was almost banned from radio play and some TV shows due to its explicit lyrics.<ref name="MemTV">{{cite web |url=http://www.memorabletv.com/musicworld/ozrock/atob.htm |title=Memorable TV Oz Rock: Australian Crawl entry |publisher=Memorable TV / Little Acorns Publishing |accessdate=2008-03-02 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120524062840/http://www.memorabletv.com/musicworld/ozrock/atob.htm |archivedate=24 May 2012 |df=dmy-all }}</ref> Reyne makes observations about cocktail parties that his parents attended, including where one of his teachers was caught in the garden with someone else's wife.<ref name="Love"/> Many listeners believe the chorus lyrics are about smoking marijuana but Reyne has stated that it was about smoking tobacco cigarettes when he was in Form Four at ].<ref name="Love"/>
Dorset Gardens hotel is a pub in ] an eastern suburb of ].


In an interview with ] on the ABC Television program '']'', broadcast on 31 May 2010, Reyne answered a question on what the song was about, "Well, really? It's about fellatio, but it was also about the sort of burgeoning, you know, kind of... new middle class, the new money and the new money aspirational... uh... class."<ref name="Talking quote">{{cite web | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20160513064417/http://www.abc.net.au/tv/talkingheads/txt/s2907872.htm | url = http://www.abc.net.au/tv/talkingheads/txt/s2907872.htm | title = ''Talking Heads'' – James Reyne &#91;transcript&#93; | archivedate = 13 May 2016 | date = 31 May 2010| publisher = ] (ABC) | accessdate = 17 October 2017 }}</ref>
⚫ The single was almost banned from radio play and some TV shows due to its explicit lyrics.<ref name="MemTV">{{cite web |url=http://www.memorabletv.com/musicworld/ozrock/atob.htm |title=Memorable TV Oz Rock: Australian Crawl entry |publisher=Memorable TV / Little Acorns Publishing |accessdate=2008-03-02 }}</ref> Reyne makes observations about cocktail parties that his parents attended and one of his teachers was caught in the garden with someone else's wife.<ref name="Love"/> Many listeners believe the chorus lyrics are about smoking marijuana but Reyne has stated that it was about smoking tobacco cigarettes when he was in Form Four at ].<ref name="Love"/> In an interview with Peter Thompson on the ABC Television program Talking Heads, broadcast 31 May 2010, James Reyne stated that the song was about ].


==Track listing== ==Track listing==
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|Australian (])<ref name=aus>{{cite book|last=Kent|first=David|author-link=David Kent (historian)|title=Australian Chart Book 1970–1992|edition=illustrated|publisher=Australian Chart Book|location=St Ives, N.S.W.|year=1993|isbn=0-646-11917-6|page=21}}</ref>
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1980 single by Australian Crawl
"The Boys Light Up"
Single by Australian Crawl
from the album The Boys Light Up
A-side"The Boys Light Up"
B-side"Boot Hill"
ReleasedApril 1980
GenreAustralian pub rock
Length4:41
LabelEMI
Songwriter(s)James Reyne
Producer(s)David Briggs
Australian Crawl singles chronology
"Beautiful People"
(1979) 		"The Boys Light Up"
(1980) 		"Downhearted"
(1980)

"The Boys Light Up" is the second single and title track released by Australian rock band Australian Crawl from their debut album The Boys Light Up (1980). The song was written by lead singer James Reyne

Australian Crawl's producer David Briggs was the Little River Band's guitarist, and had helped them to a recording contract with EMI. "The Boys Light Up" peaked at #22 on the Australian Singles Chart.

The song contains the neologism "dorseted", to rhyme with "corseted".

"People aren't used to hearing 'Dorseted', and it's not actually a word - it's from the Dorset Gardens - I'm trying to be as suburban as possible, and it rhymed with 'corseted'." - James Reyne, 2003

The single was almost banned from radio play and some TV shows due to its explicit lyrics. Reyne makes observations about cocktail parties that his parents attended, including where one of his teachers was caught in the garden with someone else's wife. Many listeners believe the chorus lyrics are about smoking marijuana but Reyne has stated that it was about smoking tobacco cigarettes when he was in Form Four at The Peninsula School.

In an interview with Peter Thompson on the ABC Television program Talking Heads, broadcast on 31 May 2010, Reyne answered a question on what the song was about, "Well, really? It's about fellatio, but it was also about the sort of burgeoning, you know, kind of... new middle class, the new money and the new money aspirational... uh... class."

Track listing

  1. "The Boys Light Up" (James Reyne) - 4:41
  2. "Boot Hill" (Reyne) - 2:36

Charts

Chart (1980) Peak
position
Australian (Kent Music Report) 22

References

  1. ^ "Australasian Performing Right Association". APRA. Archived from the original on 24 January 2008. Retrieved 7 March 2008.
  2. Holmgren, Magnus; Warnqvist, Stefan; Draper, Oliver; McDonough, Bill. "Australian Crawl". Australian Rock Database. Passagen.se (Magnus Holmgren). Archived from the original on 22 October 2013. Retrieved 23 March 2014.
  3. McFarlane, Ian (1999). Encyclopedia of Australian Rock and Pop (doc). Allen & Unwin. ISBN 1-86448-768-2. Retrieved 1 March 2008.
  4. Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970-1992. St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.
  5. ^ "Love is in the air Episode 5: "National Anthems"; transcript of interview with James Reyne". ABC-TV. 9 November 2003. Archived from the original on 28 January 2008. Retrieved 2 March 2008.
  6. "Memorable TV Oz Rock: Australian Crawl entry". Memorable TV / Little Acorns Publishing. Archived from the original on 24 May 2012. Retrieved 2 March 2008.
  7. "Talking Heads – James Reyne [transcript]". Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC). 31 May 2010. Archived from the original on 13 May 2016. Retrieved 17 October 2017.
  8. Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 21. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.
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