Cheap Wine (song)

"Cheap Wine"
Single by Cold Chisel
from the album East
B-side"Rising Sun"
Released9 May 1980
RecordedMarch–April 1980, Paradise Studios, Sydney
Genre
Length3:27
LabelWEA
Songwriter(s)Don Walker
Producer(s)Mark Opitz
Cold Chisel singles chronology
"Choirgirl"
(1979)
"Cheap Wine"
(1980)
"My Baby"
(1980)

"Cheap Wine" is a 1980 single from Australian rock band Cold Chisel. The second single from the album East, it was released in May, a month before the album.[2] It reached number 8 on the Australian charts, the band's first top-ten single, and would eventually remain the band's second highest chart performance.[3] It has been described as, "one of Don's finest commercial songs."[4]

  1. ^ Bernard Zuel. "Cold Chisel review: 'Last stand', 30 years after the last one, still brings the house down". Sydney Morning Herald. Fairfax.
  2. ^ Donnie Sutherland (27 April 1980). "Sound World". Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 28 October 2012.
  3. ^ David Kent (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970-1992. St Ives, New South Wales: Australian Chart Book. p. 72. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.
  4. ^ Michael Lawrence (2012). Cold Chisel: Wild Colonial Boys. Melbourne, Victoria: Melbourne Books. p. 129. ISBN 9781877096174.