' ROCK and ROLL MUSIC ' by Mental as Anything & Yahoo Serious

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Mental As Anything "Rock and Roll Music" (1988)
were a Australian new wave and pop rock band that formed in Sydney in 1976.
Its most popular line-up (which lasted from 1977 to 1999, and recorded all of their charting singles and albums) was Martin Plaza (birth name Martin Murphy) on vocals and guitar; Reg Mombassa (birth name Christopher O'Doherty) on lead guitar and vocals; his brother Peter "Yoga Dog" O'Doherty on bass guitar and vocals; Wayne de Lisle (birth name David Twohill) on drums; and Andrew "Greedy" Smith on vocals, keyboards and harmonica.
Their original hit songs were generated by Mombassa, O'Doherty, Plaza and Smith, either individually or collectively; they also hit the Australian charts with covers of songs by Roy Orbison, Elvis Presley, and Chuck Berry.
One of their top ten Australian singles was "Rock and Roll Music" (1988) used in The Aussie Hit Movie " Young Einstein" with Yahoo Serious as shown at Sydney Harbour and was extremely popular.

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