Chrissy was a wild child back in the 80's in Australia much loved and missed RIP if you were lucky enough to have seen them live you would never forget it peace out .

Chrissy Amplett was one of the greatest people to ever front a rock band, anywhere worldwide, male or female.

Chrissy had MS... so unfortunately when she contracted Breast Cancer she was unable to have orthodox treatment like chemo as it would have fast tracked the MS also. Very sad...lovely lovely lady and a legend in Oz...

Americans think Divinyls were one hit wonders with "I Touch Myself". They were so much more here. Chrissy also did musical theatre, playing Judy Garland in "The Boy from Oz." Divinyls were TIGHT!

Ahh Chrissie what a rock goddess. What a voice. No one else ever had that light bar microphone stand. She has a Lane named after her in Melbourne loved her 🇦🇺⚡️❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥🤘🏿💜💜💜. Her cousin little Pattie Amphlett had a hit song at 14 .

Your appreciation of music is unparalleled and eclectic mate, such diversity and understanding, I love your channel and your reactions

Love this bit in an article written for her when she died "...On stage, especially earlier in her career, she would throw shapes calculated not to titillate or to tease but to shock, offend, outrage and frighten. It was potent, sure, but it was also uncomfortable and confusing, because Amphlett didn’t allow herself to be easily assimilated. Her act, exemplified by her wearing a school uniform with torn fishnets - a metaphor for defiled innocence - was a contradiction. Hunching her back, screaming with the primal force of a cornered animal, she presented herself as damaged goods, and was convincing enough to make you wonder if you might in some way be responsible. From all accounts, she was as insecure as any performer. And maybe, as she grew older and presumably more at ease with herself, she also became more comfortable with expressing her sexuality in a more conventional way; both in her lyrics and in the band’s videos. Or perhaps that was a price she was prepared to pay for the band’s success in the age of MTV. Sure, I Touch Myself may the best song about pushing the hot button ever written, but still, I preferred the earlier, more challenging version, back when Amphlett didn’t wear make-up, and her haircut was more severe. Back when she bared her teeth - knowing they were jagged, and that there were gaps in her smile. Were the Divinyls getting started now, a manager or record company lackey might have told Amphlett to get that smile fixed. I’d like to think she would have told them to go f-ck themselves...."

My dad worked on Chrissy's house and she use to come out at 8am to say hi in a robe with a tallie ( 40oz beer) and say hi and offer the guys a beer. absolute legend

Grew up with this era of awesome Australian rock🤘Timeless to this day👍

So ahead of their time. So many memories of when I was 20 in Australia. They were huge here. Chrissie is a legend still.

Yes! A Great Aussie band who I grew up with. My favourite of theirs was ‘Pleasure and Pain’ … I still turn it uuuuuup when it comes on the radio. Such a powerful song 🖤 RIP Chrissy PS- love all the Australian music you review… thank you

So glad you liked that, mate. RIP Chrissy. She left her mark on this world.

The 80s were a great time for aussie rock\pop. Chrissy was the sultriest of the era. (Along with Suze DeMarchi). Check out some 'Baby Animals'.

Criminally underrated band. Glad you are hearing this.

This is from an era that was the heyday of live music on the pub circuit in Australia. The pub band scene in Melbourne was massive at the time, to the point that if you couldn't find a pub with a rock band playing on both Friday and Saturday night you must have been house-bound. Plenty of very good bands just never got the break that others did.

Chrissie Amphlett and the Divinyls, so original and all time favourites. She was unique and mesmerising, the band, so good. Legends.

It’s so hard to believe just how good we’ve had it “down under” when it comes to music. Your reactions are priceless Nick!

We miss you Chrissy, gone to soon. Such a great band, I love your reactions:-)

Tina Arena did this in your reaction video a couple of days ago, as she said, a tribute to Chrissy. You should check out some more Divinyls - Chrissy was really something special.

Chrissie Amphlett - what performer. And there's a lane in Melbourne named after her too. You gotta check pleasure and pain.

One of the best rock performers live, equal parts sexy AF and terrifying.

I got the privilege to be able to see the Divinyls live at a pub in the town o was living in. I was 17 they where fantastic live. Chrissy always wearing that school girls uniform. The place went off like a frog in a sock.

Saw The Divinyls in Sydney back in.the early 80s and she absolutely rocked and she did a cartwheel on stage and had no knickers on! She was wild and I idolised her. She broke a lot of female stereotypes with her honest raw talent and voice. RiP.

You should try Doh-Re-Mi - great Aussie band Deborah Conway lead singer - fabulous Mezzo Soprano - check out their hit "Man Overboard" as a starting point -love the whole "Domestic Harmony" album.

Proud Aussie girl here and this band was yes part of my teens. 🇦🇺❤

She was amazing live on stage ,she was special and one of the best Aussie greatest.

Their 'I ain't gonna Eat Out My Heart Anymore' song was in the 90's Buffy the Vampire Slayer movie. It's another good one!

She was an amazing singer

Chrissy Amphlett is a wonderful singer and has given her heart to Australia. We will never forget that band an Crissy as their singer. A gutsy girl with a heart of gold.

Chrissy is actually from my hometown - My dad went to high school with her… There is a laneway in the city center covered in artwork dedicated to her too.

From what I remember her microphone is taped to a flourescent light tube. She’s wearing what was back then the standard public high school winter uniform - I had once of those back in the 1980’s.

Chrissy also played with Jimmy Barnes, INXS, Kate Cebrano and many Aussie artists at the Australian Made Concert in the 80s She was a blast❤

Oooh I got goosebumps. What a privilege to grow up listening to all these aussie bands /artists you are reviewing 😍

Another great Aussie pub band... Only 100 to go!..... Back in the day just about every pub would have a live bank on Friday and Saturday night... It would draw a crowd and beer sales would go up. So there was plenty of work for anybody that could hold a tune (or not) or play an instrument. This meant plenty og gigs, plenty of practice. You would start in some shitty little dive and work your way up to better and bigger pubs. That is why the 70s and 80s produced ssoo many great bands... These days ((even before covid) you would struggle to find live music anywhere. So, I'm dead serious when I say you will spend the rest of your life discovering great Australian music🇦🇺. In the same way as bands would move to bigger and better paying pubs the best of the Kiwi Music would find its way over to Sydney, Melbourne etc. Like Jon Stevens.

Check out "Pleasure & Pain", "I touch myself", "Only Lonely" & "Science Fiction". All great songs by the Divinyls. Used to love watching Chrissy back in my teen years.

Nice reaction & comments. You should react to them singing "Pleasure & Pain" one of my favs from them back than in the mid 80's.

As soon as I saw you were checking out The Divinyls I had to hear. The Divinyls have legendary status in Aus. Chrissy is a force of nature, like Debbie Harry. Please hear "Only Lonely" and "Talk like the Rain". 🐾

I saw the Divinyls the first time in Sydney in the early 80's , before their first single, she had her mic attached to a ' mechanics flouro tube ' . great stage effect. She used it as a 'toy' onstage . Side note, the bass player joined this band after leaving Air Supply .

Chrissy Amphlett! the Divinyls were great. She is wearing a school uniform. in my mind she was the school girl equivalent to Angus Young's (AC/DC) school boy

Christine Amphlett, power house Oz singer & performer. She wore the school girl unifom, like Angus Young of ACDC wore the schoolboy uniform with backbag. 1959 - 2013 R.I.P.

Now you're talking! Chrissy sang on one of the versions of Good Times with Jimmy Barnes and INXS. "Cancer Council, JWT Sydney and friends and family of Chrissy Amphlett have joined forces to launch the ‘I Touch Myself Project’, raising awareness of breast cancer as a tribute to the Australian vocalist who passed away from the disease almost a year ago. Leading female artists including Olivia Newton John, Sarah McLeod and Connie Mitchell amongst others have lent their support to the campaign, which kicks off with a 2.5 minute music video. The video is supported by two 60-second TV ads, radio, digital billboards..."

Rest in Peace Chrissie Australia loves you.Great song from a great band and a sublime lead singer

Glad you liked 'our' Divynyls. This was the song that launched their career here in Australia.

There I was in the late 80's at the Raffles in W.A. beer in hand cigarette in the other standing near the stage watching her sing. She reached down and took my smoke and I just stood there as she sang and finished my smoke... in love. :)

My ultimate rock chick! I cried for days when she passed. Christy also entered theater in the Peter Allen stage show The Boy from Oz as Judy Garland which I was lucky enough to see here in Melbourne

Chrissy Amphlett was an amazing rock singer as well as professional singer in other ways. Glad you're discovering her. :)

Chrissy was such a great singer and fantastic performer. Seeing her perform live was a whole new experience for young men in Australia. R.I.P Chrissy.

Fantastic video brother. I love seeing people react to Chrissy for the first time. You either, get it and are instantly hooked. Or you don't. For those who don't, I feel sorry for you. She was a powerhouse. Her stage persona like no one else. She was also a mighty actress. I saw them live quite a few times. Best concerts I have ever been to. I miss you Chrissy.

Oh Chrissy 🙏🏼 😔 So glad you reviewed and liked this song so much. There’s so many awesome 80’s Aussie bands. Models, Hoodoo Guru’s, The Angels, just to name a few more, that you could add to your workout play list. ✌️

They’re absolutely amazing 😉🇦🇺🇦🇺🥂🥂 Back in my days at school, I wore a school uniform, that one is called a Tunic 😂😂 I still have mine & wear it a costume parties 🥳😉😉 She was great, May she RIP 🙏🙏🌹

There were 2 Chrissie's who were brilliant at around the same period, Chrissie Hynde from The Pretenders & Chrissy Amphlett from The Divinyls. I loved them both. They were both amazing live apparently as well as on video. Amphlett was a very naughty gal.

Love Chrissie Amphlet! More from The Divinyls please - Pleasure and Pain, Science Fiction, Elsie, I’m Jealous. The clip you watched was from the movie Monkey Grip, starring Nonie Hazelhurst, in the early 80s. The band had been playing in pubs in Melbourne and were asked to do the movie soundtrack and play minor roles (Chrissie played a supporting character in the film). The soundtrack probably did better than the movie itself, and they shot up the charts and stayed there through the 80s and 90s.

Live they sounded just the same back in 1976..They played gigs at University bars, when I was 18...

our female Angus! Damn she's awesome, passive/aggressive pent up bomba! And yes yo bangs should ALWAYS cover your eyes! I remember having a conversation with La Toya Jackson about her and this and Chrissy amazing look, LT said to me, make sure your bangs cover your eyes like her! hehe funny things....

And her pout was real! So great to see you being mind blown by all the best Oz music from my youth!

She was the Planet Earth's Rock Goddess. She has no equal.

#RIP Chrissy Amphlett, true Aussie music icon.

🎼🎤 RIP Chrissy. Lost but not forgotten.

Chrissie what a Rock Chick .....RIP Babe💞

I saved up to go to Divinyls last concert so I could see Chrissy one more time in concert. She was so unwell but still AMAZING. ❤

RIP Chrissy.. absolute legend x

Thanks for loving our Chrissy! Still missed to this day. Great reaction video. 🇦🇺

She was so unique. Love her.

The most beautiful Chrissy Amphlett, school uniform, fishnet stockings, high heels and one of the best front women ever to be in the business. She is very much missed by those who followed her music.

I'm so glad you picked this one up bro. She was my schoolboy crush (and most of Australia's too) so sad when she passed away. Awesome music. Your love of music is infectious!

We had so much great music in Australia. Pity it’s gone. Billy Thorpe was my favourite live. He would be smiling while his music would peel your face off. R.I.P. Thorpie.

Another great Aussie rock band they have so many great songs 🎵

That was brilliant, what a presence Chrissy Amphlett had (& still does). She, the band smashes it, - & what a unique, strong voice. She's an icon.

One of the great live bands in the 80s seen them many times

It was always great to go to a gig with Chrissie and her band playing...you couldn't help but dance when they got going. 👍👍🤗🤗💝

Thanks for giving Aussie rock a hear. You're hearing the best of what alotta the world has missed. You're already ahead of the curve.

Chrissie is probably the only person in the world who could sing the line “I might kick her face in” and still sound sound sensual (from the song I’m Jealous)!

I saw them in concert in club that held 1200. Fantastic concert. She was wild. R.i.p. Chrissie, your lose was a blow to music

"I'm gonna make this my new workout song." - yes, mate, you and the rest of Australia. lol.

I feel the same when I hear this song!! RIP Chrissy Amphlett - what a woman! Divinyls were a little before my time so didn't see them live but love watching the vids :)

Absolutely loved Chrissy Saw them live at the Piggery in Byron bay, late 80’s not sure what year Bloody awesome live . The best rock chic ever imo

Chrissy. Went to high school in Belmont in Geelong Victoria Australia. She used to wear a high school uniform on stage. She was a great performer and singer on stage. She had multiple scorisis and breast cancer and was diagnosed before she passed away from the cancer and the multiple scorisis.

Fantastic song so happy!

what a stage presence - saw the Divinyls playing at the Warners Bay Hotel all them years ago, and she knocked holes in the wall! Vale, Chrissy...you are missed.

Divinyls Great Band ..RIP Chrissy

RIP Chrissy - an amazing woman ❤️ Her cousin, Patricia Amphlett, was known as Little Pattie - she had a music career in the 60s and 70s in Australia as well, she started on the TV show Bandstand at around the age of 14 - one of her first big hits was a song called 'He's My Blonde-Headed, Stompie-Wompie, Real-Gone Surfer Boy'. A mouthful, but it was a hit! Talented family 🙂

Absolutely loving your reactions Man !

I remember seeing this band at the local club on a Friday night back in the day… Good times 👍😎

Chrissy and I were born the same day the same year. I knew her and she was just awesome. My heart is still broken.💔💔💔

It's so much fun to watch your (intelligent) reactions to the musicians I've listened to and loved my whole life. But I want to thank you too, for giving me Donny Hathaway! OMG!!!! I can't stop listening. What a great voice ! I can see why you responded to Jimmy and John so well.

This is gonna be good. She was awesome live. The Divinyls wow. Man look at Joanne Jet, Suzy Quatro and Chrissy gig. It happened but I can’t find a recording. Not many cell phones with the capability to record a gig then.

I am going to comment on this as an Australian woman who grew up in the 70's and 80's. Chrissy was amazing, even very young i loved her passion, Australia was very rough, she was so tough to survive the industry. Im not so tough, so I admire her, also the lyrics, to me she us so underrated. When I feel week or down I play her music really loud. ESPECIALLY the song "In My Life"

The Divinyl s were awesome live, Crissy Amphlet was very raunchy on stage , I actually had seen her live and she pee’d on stage lol she just kicked ass !!

Another classic Aussie pub band .. love it so much

I’ve only found you recently. Your appreciation for Aus music and performance is so wonderful. You are awesome!

Love the Bon Scott inspired school uniform Chrissie is wearing

Apparently Chrissie's mic stand was a fluorescent lightbulb! They bloody rocked! 🤘🏾

I saw the Divinyls at Coogee Bay Hotel… fantastic and a long time ago.

The electricity in the crowd watching this band live was scary and awesome at the same time 🤙🇦🇺

There was an attempt to reform the band in 2018 with American Lauren Ruth Ward up front , Chrissy Amphlett died in 2013 , Ward had recorded a cover of I TOUCH MY SELF with John McEntee , the blond guy in the video who wrote the songs with Amphlett they formed the band The new band was supposed to tour Australia in 2019 but was cancelled , I don't know how this would have gone down I heard there was a backlash from us old fans as Chrissy has rock saint hood down here , before she died she gave the song I TOUCH MYSELF to the cancer council Not only did she die of cancer but she had been battling MS as well , so sad , will be forever young forever beautiful

You made my day. Chrissy is a legend and this is a brilliant band that was my teen years in a nutshell. Thank you 😊

RIP Chrissy. I like "Jealous" - it hits hard, from the very first line.

The good old days. love your reactions. RIP CHRISSY

Chrissy was one off our best performance may Chrissy RIP above the blue silky skies above . I remember seeing you at the Coogee Bay Hotel back in the hay day’s. You know what mate you’ll never find the same as back in the 70 or 80 or 90s. Listen too Baby Animals other band’s that rocked hard .we have so many Band’s here so talented that you may off never heard off before.? . Enjoy all off our amazing band’s and singers

Saw her may times in the early days in the Cross, awesome!