Solo Career
After Cold Chisel disbanded in 1983, Moss retired from the music industry for several years before launching a solo career in 1988. His first single, "Tucker's Daughter", co-written with Don Walker, was released on Mushroom Records in March 1989 and was a No. 1 hit. Another Walker composition, "Telephone Booth", also went Top 10. Matchbook, released in August, reached number one on the album charts, remaining at the peak spot for three weeks. Two further singles, "Out of the Fire" and "Mr. Rain" were also minor hits and at the ARIA Awards early the following year Moss won five awards including Best Male Artist and Album of the Year.
1991's Worlds Away featured the same style of commercial pop-rock as Matchbook but was less successful and Moss did not record another album of his own for five years. In the meantime, however, he played in Don Walker's Catfish, contributing to the Ruby album. He also made guest appearances on albums by The Black Sorrows on a track called "Ain't Love The Strangest Thing" and Richard Clapton and made a cameo on Jimmy Barnes' Heat, the first time he had worked with Barnes in ten years.
His Petrolhead album from 1996 was an album of hard edged raw blues and was followed a year later by a live album. Neither made an impact on the national chart, but during 1998, after fifteen years Cold Chisel reunited to record a new album, The Last Wave of Summer and perform live once again. The reunion was a huge success, resulting in sold out concerts with both the album and several singles becoming chart hits. Another Cold Chisel tour, Ringside, in 2003 proved to be just as successful.
During 2005, Moss was invited to record an album of acoustic songs for Liberation Music and Six Strings was the result. To support the release he undertook an extensive tour with former Noiseworks and INXS singer Jon Stevens. The same year he worked with Barnes again on Double Happiness.
Ian Moss' sixth album Let's All Get Together was released in 2007.
In 2008, Ian Moss was on the Australian television singing show, It Takes Two.
Moss went to New York in August 2008 to record "Soul on West 53rd", a collection of mainly soul songs of the 60's & 70's. The album, produced by Danny Korthmar, featured musical greats such as Steve Jordan, Neil Jason, Leon Pendarvis and Hugh McCracken. The album was released in Oct 2009.
In 2012, he made a guest appearance on the soap opera Neighbours, playing a gig at Charlie's Bar. This episode was broadcast in October 2012 in the UK.
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