Reckless (Australian Crawl song)

"Reckless (Don't Be So)"
Single by Australian Crawl
from the album Semantics
Released19 September 1983[1]
RecordedRhinoceros Studios (Sydney)
GenreRock
Length5:23
LabelEMI, Geffen
Songwriter(s)James Reyne
Producer(s)Mark Opitz
Australian Crawl singles chronology
"Runaway Girls"
(1982) 		"Reckless (Don't Be So)"
(1983) 		"Louie Louie"
(1984)

"Reckless"[2] (aka "Reckless (Don't Be So)", "Reckless (Don't You Be So)", "She Don't Like That") is a 1983 song from the EP Semantics by Australian band Australian Crawl. The song showed a change in the line up of the band as drummer Bill McDonough was temporarily replaced by Graham Bidstrup (also on keyboards).[3][4] After the EP was released, Bidstrup was replaced by John Watson (drums).[3][4]

The EP Semantics charted on the Australian Singles Charts to reach No. 1 and consequently some sources list "Reckless" as a No. 1 single.[5][6] It was written by lead singer and guitarist James Reyne.[2] Listeners of Triple M voted "Reckless" the 39th best song of all time in 2007; it was the highest placed Australian Crawl song.[7]

The song's lyrics refer to locations in Sydney such as Manly and Circular Quay.

In Europe (including the United Kingdom) "Reckless" was released by Geffen Records as a single backed with "White Limbo"; it was also a track on the 1984 expanded LP version of Semantics.[3][8]

Australian Crawl performed "Reckless" as one of their three songs for the Oz for Africa concert (1985). This was the Australian leg of the global Live Aid show organised by Midge Ure and Bob Geldof. The "Oz for Africa" concert was broadcast on MTV, but only performances by Australian band INXS were placed on the 20th Anniversary DVD collection.[9]

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  3. ^ a b c McFarlane, Ian (1999). Encyclopedia of Australian Rock and Pop (doc). Allen & Unwin. ISBN 1-86448-768-2. Retrieved 27 March 2008.
  4. ^ a b Holmgren, Magnus; Warnqvist, Stefan; Draper, Oliver; McDonough, Bill. "Australian Crawl". Australian Rock Database. Passagen.se (Magnus Holmgren). Archived from the original on 22 October 2013. Retrieved 23 March 2014.
  5. ^ Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992. St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. ISBN 0-646-11917-6. NOTE: Used for Australian Singles and Albums charting from 1970 until ARIA created their own charts in mid-1988.
  6. ^ Baker, Glenn A. (1983). "Phalanx liner notes". Axel Husfeldt. Archived from the original on 29 July 2003. Retrieved 27 March 2008.
  7. ^ "Triple M's Essential 2007 Countdown". Triple M. Archived from the original on 20 November 2008. Retrieved 10 March 2008.
  8. ^ "Zentrum Mensch-Maschine-Systeme". Axel Husfeldt. 9 July 1999. Archived from the original on 29 July 2003. Retrieved 27 March 2008.
  9. ^ "Oz For Africa". Retrieved 10 March 2008.