ARIA Music Awards of 1997

The eleventh Annual Australian Recording Industry Association Music Awards (generally known as the ARIA Music Awards) were held on 1997-09-22. They were presented at the Capitol Theatre in Sydney.cite web|url=http://ariaawards.com.au/history-by-year.php?year=1997|title=1997: 11th Annual ARIA Awards|publisher=ARIA|accessdate=2007-09-18] The event was hosted by Australian thespian-comedian Paul McDermott.

Savage Garden dominated this year, receiving a record ten awards including the prestigious Album of the Year for their self titled debut album, Single of the Year for "Truly Madly Deeply" and Best Group, among other awards.

Background

The event included musical performances by Ben Folds Five, The Presidents of the United States of America and Kylie Minogue. John Farnham teamed up with crooner quartet Human Nature to debut the performance of their song "Every Time You Cry", which later became a #1 ARIA Singles Chart hit. Crowded House, who won the award for Highest Selling Album for their greatest hits collection "Recurring Dream", reunited after a year of having broken up, to commemorate Paul Kelly's induction into the ARIA Hall of Fame by performing his song "Leaps and Bounds".

Various international and Australian entertainers presented awards to the winners including Australian Elle McFeast (who was nominated for "Best Comedy Album"), Ben Folds, Kylie Minogue and Chris Ballew, Dave Dederer and Jason Finn of The Presidents of the United States of America.

Multiple winners and nominees

*Savage Garden - 10 awards from 13 nominations
*Charles Fisher - 3 awards from 3 nominations
*Paul Kelly - 2 awards from 5 nominations
*The Superjesus - 2 awards from 2 nominations
*Spiderbait - 1 award from 7 nominations
*Silverchair - 1 award from 5 nominations
*Crowded House - 1 award from 3 nominations
*Powderfinger - 7 nominations

Awards

"All winners and non-winning nominees listed. All results are indicated on the left."

Achievement Awards

*Outstanding Achievement Award: Peter Andre
*Special Achievement Award: Charles Fisher

Hall of Fame Inductees

The Bee Gees, Graeme Bell and Paul Kelly were inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame.

ee also

*Australian music
*1997 in music

Notes