Skyhooks – Guilty Until Proven Insane (VG/E) – LP, AU 1978

Guilty Until Proven Insane is an LP by Skyhooks from 1978 released on the Mushroom label.

About this album

Guilty Until Proven Insane finds Skyhooks turning sharp pop-rock hooks and street-level satire into one of their most commercially visible statements. Released in 1978, the album followed the band’s run of Australian hit-making and keeps their taste for comic provocation firmly in focus, from the swaggering Women in Uniform to songs that skewer modern life, technology and bad behaviour with equal relish. Built on glossy guitar rock and theatrically irreverent writing, it shows why Skyhooks became one of the most distinctive and successful Australian bands of the 1970s. The record extends their mix of humour, attitude and radio-ready melody into a late-period album with lasting cult appeal.