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Midnight Oil performed “Beds Are Burning” at the closing ceremony of the Summer Olympics in Sydney. The members of the band wore the word “sorry” on their black clothing as a symbolic gesture toward Australia’s Indigenous people.
Related events
- Midnight Oil released their sixth album, “Diesel and Dust”, inspired by their tour of Aboriginal communities in the Australian outback. The single “Beds Are Burning”, which called for the return of land rights to Indigenous Australians, became the band's breakthrough hit in the US.