Biography
Colin James Hay (born 29 June 1953) is a Scottish-Australian musician. He came to prominence as the lead vocalist and the sole continuous member of the band Men at Work, and later as a solo artist. Hay is a member of the band Ringo Starr & His All-Starr Band. Hay has made appearances in films such as Cosi (1996) and in television shows such as The Resident, The Larry Sanders Show, JAG, The Mick Molloy Show, A Million Little Things, and Scrubs. In Scrubs, he performs an acoustic version of the Men at Work hit "Overkill" in the first episode of the second season titled, My Overkill, along with a bit of the acoustic version of "Down Under" during a cutaway of the second episode of the seventh season titled, My Hard Labor. His music also appeared in the television series What About Brian, The Black Donnellys, Cane, and the BBC medical drama Casualty.
Bio from Wikipedia
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Business As Usual
1981
Cargo
1983
Garden State (Music From The Motion Picture)
2004
Man @ Work
2003
Two Hearts
1985
Now That's What I Call Music
1983
Down Under
1981
Who Can It Be Now?
1981
You're The One
1996
Hitwave '81
1981
Trick Or Treat
2009
Fantastic 80's!
1998
Looking For Jack
1987
Everything I Need
1985
Let's Beat It
1984
Overkill
1983
For Dancin' - 28 Superhits Nonstop
1983
Dr. Heckyll & Mr. Jive
1982
Still Life EP
2014
Brazil '96
1997
Overtime
1983
Credited work
1,483 releases · 260 albums · active 1979–2025
- Performance · 5,540
- Other credits · 1,418
- Production · 280
- Engineering · 158
Studios: Richmond Recorders · AAV · Paradise Studios (2) · Westlake Studios
Frequent collaborators
- Various
- Men At Work
- Colin James Hay
- Le Club Foote
- Vilperin Perikunta
- Orlando Netti
- Unknown Artist
- Antis