Breakfast at Sweethearts (song): Difference between revisions

| Caption name = Breakfast at Sweethearts

| Artist cover = [[Cold Chisel]]

| fromalt Album = [[Breakfast at Sweethearts]]=

| A-side type = "Breakfast at Sweethearts"single

| B-sideartist = [[Cold = "Plaza"Chisel]]

| Released album = March[[Breakfast at 1979Sweethearts]]

| Format B-side = [[7" vinyl]]Plaza

| Recordedreleased = March 1979
| recorded = July 1978 -– January 1979, Albert Studios, Sydney

| Length venue =

| Producer label = [[RichardWarner Music BatchensGroup|WEA]]

| Last single prev_title = "[[Goodbye (Astrid Goodbye)]]"<br/>(1978)

| Next single next_title = "Shipping Steel"<br/>(1979)

| Misc next_year = 1979

"'''''"Breakfast at Sweethearts"'''''" wasis a song from [[Australia]]n [[rock music|rock]] band [[Cold Chisel]]. Written by keyboardist [[Don Walker (musician)|Don Walker]], it was released as a single in 1979, peaking at number 63 on the Australian charts. It appeared as a track on the album [[Breakfast at Sweethearts|of the same name]].<ref>{{cite book | author= David Kent |title=Australian Chart Book 1970-1992|year=1993|page=72

|publisher=''Australian Chart Book'' |location=St Ives, New South Wales |isbn=0-646-11917-6}}</ref>

"Sweethearts" was a cafè in the middle of [[Kings Cross, New South Wales|Kings Cross, Sydney]], Australia in the 1970s and 1980s, "cramped between strip clubs and sex shops, patronised by the hookers, pimps and drug dealers and the lost and lonely debris of the night,"<ref>{{cite web| work= coldchisel.com | title=Petrolheads| author=Toby Cresswell | url=http://www.coldchisel.com/band/history/petrolheads/|archive-date=30 April 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170430014446/http://www.coldchisel.com/band/history/petrolheads/}}</ref> where author Don Walker would frequently eat. He said, "The original Sweethearts Cafe is where McDonald's is now. That got demolished and Sweethearts moved over the road to where Krave Espresso Bar is now. That lasted for quite a few years, until the late 1980s, early '90s."<ref name="songlines">{{cite news|publisher=''Sydney Morning Herald''|title=Songlines|author=[[Debbie Kruger]]|author-link=Debbie Kruger|url=http://www.smh.com.au/news/music/songlines/2005/11/01/1130720527778.html?page=7|accessdateaccess-date=27 February 2010|date=2 November 2005}}</ref> Walker continued to live in Kings Cross for decades afterwards, and often wrote about the area. Author [[Louis Nowra]] said the song was, "the most immediately identifiable song about the Cross."<ref>{{cite book | author= Louis Nowra |title=Kings Cross: A Biography|year=2013

|publisher=NewSouth|isbn=1742246559978-1742246550|url=httphttps://books.google.com.au/books?id=6dvWAAAAQBAJ&pg=PT305}}</ref> Elsewhere, it was noted the song, "wasn't a cliched, red-light story of the night, it painted Kings Cross in its morning-time, aftermath rhythms."<ref>{{cite magazine| magazine= Rhythms | title=Wild Colonial Boys|author=Mark Mordue|date=2 March 2020}}</ref>

Elsewhere, Walker said the establishment was very small and run by a Yugoslavian family. "It had the reputation that when [[Rudolf Nureyev|Nureyev]] was in Sydney, he would always have his coffee at Sweethearts and stuff like that. There was 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," he claimed.<ref name="wild colonial">{{cite book | author= Michael Lawrence |title=Cold Chisel: Wild Colonial Boys|year=2012|page=131 |publisher=''Melbourne Books'' |location=Melbourne, Victoria|isbn=9781877096174}}</ref>

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