Country music radio, TV and film. Slim Dusty (1927–2003) was known as the "King of Australian Country Music" and helped to popularise the Australian bush ballad. His successful career spanned almost six decades, and his 1957 hit "A Pub with No Beer" was the biggest-selling record by an Australian to that time, and with over seven million record sales in Australia he is the most successful artist in Australian musical history. Dusty recorded and released his one-hundredth album in the year 2000 and was given the honour of singing "Waltzing Matilda" in the closing ceremony of the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games. Dusty's
Going Blind (The Go-Betweens song) ever was one single song designed to be released by that label, it would be this outlandishly winsome little pop tune from a 80's band that's as out of place as it is out of time. But then, if life was as excellent as Pynchon novels, sweet little nothing Go-Betweens would be stars." Going Blind (The Go-Betweens song) "Going Blind" is the first single by Australian indie group The Go-Betweens taken from their seventh studio album, "The Friends of Rachel Worth". It was released as a CD single by W. Minc Records (the label of their former manager, Steve Miller)