The 40-year journey of "Down Under" is as remarkable as the travel tales told in its lyrics. By Lars Brandle Australia’s unofficial anthem, Men At Work’s “Down Under,” is feted with APRA ...

This is the mashup as its own genre and his combination of Metallica's One and Men At Work's '80s classic Down Under with Land Down One-der; the light of pop bathed in the shadow of bleak progressive ...

The rock quintet Men at Work and their cheeky video for “Down Under” were the MTV generation’s first exposure to anything Australian. While American audiences had been exposed to music from ...

(CNN)-- A judge has ruled that the famous flute riff in Men at Work's Australian rock anthem "Down Under" plagiarized a popular nursery rhyme about a Kookaburra written in 1932. Thursday's ruling ...

Says Australian band Men at Work took part of flute riff from children's tune. Feb. 4, 2010 — -- In 1983, Men at Work's hit "Down Under" put the Australian band on top of the charts, winning ...

SYDNEY - Australian rockers Men at Work on Friday lost their final court bid to prove they did not steal the distinctive flute riff of their 1980s hit "Down Under" from a children's campfire song.

A judge in Sydney, Australia ruled today that Men at Work's '80s megahit "Down Under" infringes on the copyright of an old children's song called "Kookaburra Sits in the Old Gum Tree," according ...

Men at Work just announced their first tour in nearly 20 years, but anyone calling it a “reunion” is really stretching the definition of that word. The only member of any previous lineup ...

Australian band Men at Work copied a well-known children's campfire song for the flute melody in its 1980s hit "Down Under" and owes the owner years of royalties, a court ruled Thursday.

A judge in Sydney, Australia, ruled on Tuesday that the Australian band Men at Work must share some of its royalties for the 1980s hit “Down Under” with the publisher of a classic children’s ...