It’s about a café called Sweethearts in Sydney Australia which was nestled amongst the Kings Cross’s strip clubs and sex shops. Written by keyboardist Don Walker would apparently eat there often alongside the prostitutes, pimps and drug dealers. The song’s lyrics refer to waitress Anne-Maria, inspired, Walker says, by “a beautiful middle-aged woman who used to serve coffee there and never said anything, and she was reputed to be the girlfriend of quite a dangerous guy.” Its now a McDonald's. Peace out.
The musical talent of this band is just off the charts amazing. The chemistry of how the piano playing, drummer, guitarists, then organ playing in there too and singing is something I just never have heard in any other band. So many styles they could do it just a blessing to have discovered them as a kid when first start taking notice of music. It is not even close to song I like most by them but it still crazy good to listen to musically.
I've often had breakfast at Sweethearts, great memories. It opened really early in the morning for early morning workers or people like me and my friends who just spent most of the night in Kings Cross bars and clubs.
This song was off their second album, also titled Breakfast at Sweethearts. The song has a very jazz/blues/reggae vibe and was one of their early hits. I also suggest "Showtime", "Conversations", "Merry go Round" and "Shipping Steel" from off the same album.
saw cold chisel quite a few time when they came to sydney, but i first saw them in western springs stadium auckland new zealand, as they where the support band for rod stewart and his band. a couple of other bands you should check out from australia and new zealand are THE ANGELS and SPLIT ENZ and of course AC/DC, sweethearts was a cafe in kings cross red light district, i lived in darlinghurst a few mins walk into kings cross and lived there in the late seventies as those bands where becoming bigger EG - INXS where just a pub band at the time, last time i had seen them was at the marrickville hotel sydney probably 1979
Sweethearts was a cafe bang smack in the middle of Sydney's red light district know as KINGS CROSS. It was full of bars nightclubs and brothels open 24 hours a day 7 days week and everyone would leave the clubs bars and pubs to go to Sweethearts for breakfast before crawling out of the red light district to go home
Us old musician remember playing the rooms in Kings Cross and your set finished around 4 am. After packing up one would find some seedy cafe and get a bite. At Sweethearts you would often bump into a band playing at another venue. Everyone exhausted. Stories flowed.
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