Honours and Milestones
Slim Dusty was Australia's most successful and prolific musical artist, with more Gold and Platinum albums than any other Australian artist. Slim Dusty was also:
- The first Australian to receive a Gold Record.
- The first Australian to have an international record hit (A Pub with No Beer).
- made a Member of the Order of the British Empire and an Officer of the Order of Australia for services to entertainment.
- The first artist broadcast from space when astronauts played his rendition of Waltzing Matilda from Space Shuttle Columbia as it passed over Australia on its maiden flight in 1981.
- the winner of an unequalled 36 from 72 nominations at the Tamworth Country Music Festival. (see www.country.com.au/cmaa-awards/winners-archive)
- one of the earliest members of Australia's country music Roll of Renown.
- the achiever of more Gold Record and Platinum Record Awards than any other Australian artist.
- Inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame and the ARIA Special Achievement Award.
Read more about this topic: Slim Dusty
Famous quotes containing the word honours:
“Vain men delight in telling what Honours have been done them, what great Company they have kept, and the like; by which they plainly confess, that these Honours were more than their Due, and such as their Friends would not believe if they had not been told: Whereas a Man truly proud, thinks the greatest Honours below his Merit, and consequently scorns to boast. I therefore deliver it as a Maxim that whoever desires the Character of a proud Man, ought to conceal his Vanity.”
—Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)