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Article created. Thank you for your contribution to Wikipedia! JesseW, the juggling janitor 22:04, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

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Vertical Hold (band)[edit]

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Vertical Hold was an Adelaide band consisting of Mick Michalopoulos (guitar/lead vocals/songwriter), Jim Mountzouris (bass/vocals/songwriter), Noel Forth (drums) and Hilary Frost (cello). Forming in 1979 in Adelaide, South Australia the band quickly drew the attention of record giant RCA and was signed to label in 1980.

The group drew from a distinctly British influence, i.e. the music of the Beatles, Kinks, Electric Light Orchestra and The Move. The live cello sound onstage was at the time a unique addition to their catchy, melodic pop sound and provided a strong visual identity to the band in a market flooded with generic pub rock.

In December 1981, their first single "My Imagination" b/w "Baby You Send Me" went to number 1 in the South Australian charts, displacing Olivia Newton John's "Physical" and keeping the Rolling Stones "Start Me Up" from reaching the top charting position. The single charted nationally in the Australian top 50 and was aired at Midam and independent stations throughout the United Kingdom. The first airing of the "My Imagination" song nationally was a mimed performance on the #1 National ABC music program Countdown on December 6th 1981 alongside other (also in the studio performances) by Mental as Anything, UK's Simple Minds ( on their first trip Down Under) and Men at Work (coincidentally their first performance of their #1 hit "Down Under"). A national tour of Australia followed their No.1 single and the band was then poached by WEA records for a lucurative 5 single/3 Album deal.

The 4 musicians from Adelaide were now being courted by some record company people with some seriously famous friends. The signing of Vertical Hold to the Warner Bros/Elektra/Asylum stable was the sole decision of the Australian Head Of A&R Gibson Kemp, who, fresh from a stint with Polydor in Europe, was best known internationally as the drummer who replaced Ringo Starr in Rory Storm & The Hurricanes. Gibson later joined "Paddy, Klaus & Gibson" a band he formed with Klaus Voorman (who had, by this time, designed the Beatles' Revolver" LP cover, had left Manfred Mann and later of course, joined John Lennon's Plastic Ono Band). Gibson also had been married to and had children with, Astrid Kirschner, who was world famous for her Hamburg period photographs of The Beatles (see also her credit on George Harrison's "Wonderwall" Apple LP as, at that time, "Astrid Kemp"). At the time, Gibson's Kemp's secretary at WEA Sydney who looked after all of Vertical Hold's other promotional needs was non other than Joanne Peterson, ex-personal secretary for Brian Epstein and then wife of ex-Bee Gee drummer Colin Peterson (who, himself was well known as the Aussie child film star of all the 3 "Smiley" films in the 1950s).

Their first 45 for WEA "Tears Of Emotion" was produced, edited and mixed by a recent arrival to Australia, American musician Alan Mansfield, who had been Bette Midler's music director and frequent Robert Palmer collaborator ("Looking For Clues", "Johnny & Mary" etc). This 2nd single's film clip was shown on all music programs including "Countdown" and went to No.3 in Adelaide and No.52 on the national top 100. Vertical Hold were now the WEA "pop" act du jour alongside INXS, Mondo Rock, Icehouse, Richard Clapton, Jon English, Marcia Hines and they were featured in a large multi page feature in US music trade magazine "Billboard" on the burgeoning Australian Rock scene in 1982.

British producer and songwriter Jon Kennett was then contracted by WEA to produce Vertical Hold's debut album, recorded at Kent Town Studios, Adelaide and mixed at EMI's 301 studios, Sydney. Jon Kennet had a hit single in the UK (and a big hit in South Africa) on the Transatlantic label called "La Belle France" issued under the pseudonym "Sonny Worthing". Jon came to Australia principally to write songs and had 2 hits for WEA in quick succession, "Temporary Heartache" and "Lady, What's Your Name" both for Swanee (aka John Swan, who is Cold Chisel's Jimmy Barnes' half brother).

Their debut self-titled LP "Vertical Hold" was released to critical acclaim and a No.1 chart position. The 16mm film clip (not video) for their first single "Shotdown (In Love)" was scripted, produced and directed by now-internationally accredited film-maker Scott Hicks at other various locations in and around Adelaide.

In 1984 their third single, the anthemic power anthem "United States of America", mooted as the initial first single, was given significant airplay and in fact, was used by Australian TV for the broadcast of the Olympic Games that same year. Oddly, an album track (not a single) "Spotlight", was used by Qantas Airlines for all their international flights for a lengthy period during this time.

In negotiation for their second album "The Light Fantastic", Vertical Hold approached Roy Wood of The Move and Wizzard fame and he agreed to take on production duties, however Vertical Hold disbanded just as pre-production was underway and the 4 members have never reformed.

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