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Beginning his music career in the late 1970s, Freud is best known for his early solo career, which spawned the hit "Modern Girl", and as one of two lead vocalists of the Australian rock group Models from 1982-88. In 1985, Two Freud-penned hits, "Barbados" and "Out of Mind, Out of Sight", took the Models to numbers #2 and #1 on the Australian top-ten charts respectively. In 1989, Freud went solo, releasing "Step into the Heat', the most expensive album produced by the Mushroom Records company up to that point. However, it was not successful, a fact that Freud blamed in his autobiography on average songs. He then teamed with Martin Plaza of Mental As Anything as the dance group Beatfish , releasing an eponymous record in 1992. In 1995, Freud canned his next solo album, "BigMouth", but some of the material made its way onto the Hawaiian surf-themed "Postcard from Hawaii" album released by Moondog , of which Freud was the lead vocalist. Others in Moondog included Phil Ceberano and Martin Plaza . In 1999, he performed the song "One Tony Lockett " at the Sydney Cricket Ground , and released "Today's Legends of AFL football" as James Freud and the Reserves. In 2007, he released "Gates of Hell", a collection of songs from 1992-2002. Freud has documented his personal life in two autobiographical volumes "I am the voice left from drinking" (2002), and "I am the voice left from rehab" (2007). The books chronicle his descent into alcoholism, and his subsequent recovery. He became sober during late 2004. He is currently working as a Music Producer for the band of his two sons, Sonic Dogma and on developing a new solo CD entitled "Canoga Park Garage Band". EXTERNAL LINKS 2007 Book Review 'I Am The Voice Left From Rehab' (Antonella Gambotto-Burke) http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,21345784-5003900,00.html |
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