Man of Colours Rock chart, and "Electric Blue" (#7 Hot 100, #10 Mainstream), the album "Man of Colours" reached #43 on the "Billboard" 200. "Man of Colours" was lauded in Australia during 1988. The album won two ARIA Awards, 'Album of the Year' and 'Highest Selling Album'; the associated song "Electric Blue" won 'Most Performed Australasian Popular Work' at the Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) Music Awards for its writers Davies and Oates. The cover artwork, designed by Davies and Kretschmer, depicts a human figure holding three different coloured flowers. Different versions of the album have been released, the initial Australian release by
The Flowers of Virtue The Flowers of Virtue The Flowers of Virtue is a 1942 play by Marc Connelly. The action, which takes place in a single day, concerns an American businessman, Grover Bemis, who following a breakdown retires to rural southern Mexico to recuperate. But a corrupt fascist Mexican general, Orijas, gets out of jail and – backed by Nazi money – aims to set up a Hitler-like dictatorship in Mexico. His first target happens to be the village Bemis has retired to. The general and his men cripple the power plant to put the villagers at their mercy, and capture the idealistic