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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," where author Don Walker would frequently eat. He said, "The original
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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.
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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." Walker continued to live in Kings Cross for decades afterwards, and often wrote about the area. Author
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The song first appeared in performances in 1978, after the chorus was written on an organ while recording demos for the album.
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399:Mark Mordue (2 March 2020). "Wild Colonial Boys".
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272:Stephen Fitzpatrick (3 October 2015).
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812:The Best of Cold Chisel: All for You
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153:Breakfast at Sweethearts
144:Goodbye (Astrid Goodbye)
43:Breakfast at Sweethearts
611:The Last Wave of Summer
353:. Sydney Morning Herald
967:Hands Out of My Pocket
911:You Got Nothing I Want
819:50 Years – The Best Of
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699:The Live Tapes Vol. 4
692:The Live Tapes Vol. 3
685:The Live Tapes Vol. 2
678:The Live Tapes Vol. 1
925:When the War Is Over
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998:Discography
953:Flame Trees
918:Forever Now
756:Razor Songs
642:Live albums
576:Cold Chisel
498:Cold Chisel
443:Kent, David
357:27 February
351:"Songlines"
245:Australia (
210:Louis Nowra
185:Cold Chisel
131:Cold Chisel
118:Producer(s)
34:Cold Chisel
1036:1978 songs
1020:Categories
890:Cheap Wine
844:Rockpalast
837:Last Stand
742:Northbound
664:Last Stand
650:Swingshift
632:Blood Moon
559:Ray Arnott
531:Phil Small
517:Don Walker
283:8 November
259:References
189:Don Walker
178:Australian
110:Don Walker
65:March 1979
883:Choirgirl
554:John Swan
240:position
939:No Sense
862:Khe Sanh
671:Ringside
618:No Plans
510:Ian Moss
445:(1993).
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62:Released
960:Misfits
897:My Baby
854:Singles
805:Covered
798:Besides
401:Rhythms
218:Nureyev
199:Details
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148:(1978)
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84:Reggae
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79:Genre
988:Lost
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590:East
451:ISBN
423:ISBN
380:ISBN
359:2010
304:ISBN
285:2015
238:Peak
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