The wistful and yet danceable song ‘Live it Up’ by Australian band Mental As Anything provides the soundtrack for a very 80s party scene in New York in Crocodile Dundee.

'The Lark Ascending’ functions as the main musical theme in the coming-of-age film, The Year My Voice Broke (John Duigan, 1987), and features in this trailer for the film.

Director Pat Fiske shares her story about the making of the landmark documentary Australia Daze.

For the documentary Australia Daze, 28 film crews captured Australia's bicentennial celebrations over 24 hours across the country on 26 January 1988.

This documentary film examines the way Australians see themselves 200 years after the British fleet sailed into Sydney harbour to found a colony.

Excerpt from the documentary Australia Daze (Pat Fiske, 1988).

Excerpt from documentary Australia Daze (1988) featuring Linda Burney.

Screen print of a stylised Dame Joan Sutherland with staves in the background, reflecting a sheet of music.

In February 2020, NFSA Oral History Senior Curatorial Officer Sean O'Brien interviewed Dave Mason, songwriter and lead singer with the innovative and influential pop group The Reels.

In a 1981 interview, just months after the murder of John Lennon in New York, his friend and fellow musician Billy Preston remembers John Lennon.