Approximately 43 years ago today, Men at Work topped the charts in two places: the United States and, their blood-brother, the UK. The original writer of the song, Marion Sinclair, passed away in 1998, therefore the song remains in Australian copyright until 2038, where it will fall into the public domain. Since the ruling in 2010, five percent of the royalties of “Down Under” go to Larrikin, eventually until “Kookaburra” is absorbed into the public domain on New Year’s Day 2034. Though the version that we’ll be linking to today isn’t the more well-known version from their debut album “Business as Usual”. Here, we’ve included the original version on the independent single from 1980, which I’m sure you’ve never heard before.