Solo
Kennedy embarked on a solo career with the recording of a single in 1984. To help promote the release he formed John Kennedy's Love Gone Wrong. He continued to release records with everchanging lineups of that band. In 1988, he performed at the Berlin Independence Day Music Festival. He recorded a solo album in 1989 and did a farewell tour of Australia. After the tour he moved to US and UK before settling in Berlin. In 1990 Red Eye released a compilation of Kennedy's work and he toured Australia to promote it before returning to Germany where he formed John Kennedy and the Honeymooners. The album recorded before he left Australia, Fiction Facing Facts, finally came out on Berlin label Twang! in 1993.
In early 1994 he moved to Hong Kong, then in early 1997 he moved to London. He moved back to Australia in late 1999.
Kennedy released a retrospective album Inner West: Greatest Bits and Pieces, rescued from aging master tapes. In 2003 released Kennedy Town, an album for which he returned to Berlin to record.
John's 7" singles were often distinguished by the unusual covers. The single for "Miracle (in Marrickville)" featured an actual printed photograph of John standing in front of an auto electrician garage, and for "Big County" a plastic map of Australia was affixed to every cover.
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