Screen Memory (album) explained

Screen Memory
Type:Studio
Artist:MEO 245
Cover:Screen Memory by MEO 245.jpg
Released:August 1981
Recorded:1981
Studio:Studios 301, Sydney
Length:46:00
Label:Mushroom/Festival
Producer:Peter Dawkins
Next Title:Rites of Passage
Next Year:1982

Screen Memory is the first and only studio album by Australian new wave band MEO 245.[1] The album peaked at No. 69 on the Kent Music Report Albums Chart.[2] It was produced by Peter Dawkins (Air Supply, Dragon, Mi-Sex), with Dave Marett as audio engineer, at Studios 301, Sydney. According to Australian musicologist, Ian McFarlane, "[the] title was taken from A Critical Dictionary of Psychoanalysis and the record itself was full of English-influenced pop rock."[1] The album provided two singles, "Other Places" (July 1981) and "Jewels (For Your Love)" (October).[1] For Screen Memory MEO 245's line-up was Paul Brickhill on keyboards and vocals; Mark Kellett on bass guitar; Campbell Laird on drum kit; and Paul Northam on vocals and guitar.

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Notes and References

  1. Book: McFarlane . Ian . Ian McFarlane . . Encyclopedia entry for 'Broderick Smith' . https://web.archive.org/web/20030513172544/http://www.whammo.com.au/encyclopedia.asp?articleid=484 . http://www.whammo.com.au/encyclopedia.asp?articleid=484 . 1999 . . . 13 May 2003 . 1-86508-072-1 . dead .
  2. Book: . Kent . David . David Kent (historian) . Australian Chart Book Ltd . . 1993 . 0-646-11917-6 . Note: Used for Australian Singles and Albums charting from 1974 until Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) created their own charts in mid-1988. In 1992, Kent back calculated chart positions for 1970–1974.