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{{Infobox song
{{Infobox single <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Songs -->
| Name = Breakfast at Sweethearts
| name = Breakfast at Sweethearts
| Cover =
| cover =
| Caption =
| alt =
| Artist = [[Cold Chisel]]
| type = single
| from Album = [[Breakfast at Sweethearts]]
| artist = [[Cold Chisel]]
| A-side = "Breakfast at Sweethearts"
| album = [[Breakfast at Sweethearts]]
| B-side = "Plaza"
| B-side = Plaza
| Released = March 1979
| released = March 1979
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| recorded = July 1978 – January 1979, Albert Studios, Sydney
| Format = [[7" vinyl]]
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| studio =
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| Recorded = July 1978 - January 1979, Albert Studios, Sydney
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| venue =
| Genre = [[Reggae]]<ref name="the oz">{{cite news| work= The Australian | title=Cold Chisel: The Perfect Crime, 4.5 stars| author=Stephen Fitzpatrick | url=http://www.theaustralian.com.au/arts/music/cold-chisel-the-perfect-crime-45-stars/story-fn9sulvf-1227554674797|accessdate=8 November 2015|date=3 October 2015}}</ref>
| genre = [[Reggae]]<ref name="the oz">{{cite news| work= The Australian | title=Cold Chisel: The Perfect Crime, 4.5 stars| author=Stephen Fitzpatrick | url=http://www.theaustralian.com.au/arts/music/cold-chisel-the-perfect-crime-45-stars/story-fn9sulvf-1227554674797|access-date=8 November 2015|date=3 October 2015}}</ref>
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| Length =
| Label = [[Warner Music Group|WEA]]
| length =
| label = [[Warner Music Group|WEA]]
| Writer = [[Don Walker (musician)|Don Walker]]
| writer = [[Don Walker (musician)|Don Walker]]
| Producer = [[Richard Batchens]]
| producer = [[Richard Batchens]]
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| prev_title = [[Goodbye (Astrid Goodbye)]]
| Certification =
| Chart position =
| prev_year = 1978
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| next_title = Shipping Steel
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| Last single = "[[Goodbye (Astrid Goodbye)]]"<br/>(1978)
| next_year = 1979
| This single = "Breakfast at Sweethearts"<br/>(1979)
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| Next single = "Shipping Steel"<br/>(1979)
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| Misc =
}}
}}

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


==Details==
==Details==
"Sweethearts" was a cafè in the middle of [[Kings Cross, New South Wales|Kings Cross, Sydney]], Australia in the 1970s and 1980s, 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]]|url=http://www.smh.com.au/news/music/songlines/2005/11/01/1130720527778.html?page=7|accessdate=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
"Sweethearts" was a cafè in the middle of [[Kings Cross, New South Wales|Kings Cross, Sydney]] 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|access-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=1742246559|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6dvWAAAAQBAJ&pg=PT305}}</ref>
|publisher=NewSouth|isbn=978-1742246550|url=https://books.google.com/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>
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>


The song first appeared in performances in 1978, after the chorus was written on an organ while recording demos for the album.<ref name="wild colonial" />
The song first appeared in performances in 1978, after the chorus was written on an organ while recording demos for the album.<ref name="wild colonial" />


==Charts==
The single was released a month after the album of the same title. Although it received some radio airplay, it was quickly dropped from playlists when it failed to reach the top 40. It would later appear on the band's greatest hits compilations.<ref>{{cite book | author= Anthony O'Grady |title=Cold Chisel: The Pure Stuff|year=2001|page=48|publisher=''Allen & Unwin'' |location=[[Crows Nest, New South Wales]] |isbn=1-86508-196-5}}</ref>
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!Chart (1979)
!Peak<br />position
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!scope="row"|Australia ([[Kent Music Report]])<ref>{{cite book|last=Kent|first=David|author-link=David Kent (historian)|title=Australian Chart Book 1970–1992|edition=Illustrated|publisher=Australian Chart Book|location=St Ives, N.S.W.|year=1993|pages=68|isbn=0-646-11917-6}}</ref>
|68
|}


==References==
==References==
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Latest revision as of 13:10, 31 January 2024

"Breakfast at Sweethearts"
Single by Cold Chisel
from the album Breakfast at Sweethearts
B-side"Plaza"
ReleasedMarch 1979
RecordedJuly 1978 – January 1979, Albert Studios, Sydney
GenreReggae[1]
LabelWEA
Songwriter(s)Don Walker
Producer(s)Richard Batchens
Cold Chisel singles chronology
"Goodbye (Astrid Goodbye)"
(1978) 		"Breakfast at Sweethearts"
(1979) 		"Shipping Steel"
(1979)

"Breakfast at Sweethearts" is a song from Australian rock band Cold Chisel. Written by keyboardist 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 of the same name.[2]

Details

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"Sweethearts" was a cafè in the middle of Kings Cross, Sydney 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,"[3] 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."[4] 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."[5] 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."[6]

Elsewhere, Walker said the establishment was very small and run by a Yugoslavian family. "It had the reputation that when 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.[7]

The song first appeared in performances in 1978, after the chorus was written on an organ while recording demos for the album.[7]

Charts

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Chart (1979) Peak
position
Australia (Kent Music Report)[8] 68

References

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  1. ^ Stephen Fitzpatrick (3 October 2015). "Cold Chisel: The Perfect Crime, 4.5 stars". The Australian. Retrieved 8 November 2015.
  2. ^ David Kent (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970-1992. St Ives, New South Wales: Australian Chart Book. p. 72. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.
  3. ^ Toby Cresswell. "Petrolheads". coldchisel.com. Archived from the original on 30 April 2017.
  4. ^ Debbie Kruger (2 November 2005). "Songlines". Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 27 February 2010.
  5. ^ Louis Nowra (2013). Kings Cross: A Biography. NewSouth. ISBN 978-1742246550.
  6. ^ Mark Mordue (2 March 2020). "Wild Colonial Boys". Rhythms.
  7. ^ a b Michael Lawrence (2012). Cold Chisel: Wild Colonial Boys. Melbourne, Victoria: Melbourne Books. p. 131. ISBN 9781877096174.
  8. ^ Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (Illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 68. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.
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