It's a love letter to Melbourne seen through the eyes of one of Australia's most iconic record labels.
Forty years since Mushroom Records began signing Australian artists that would take on the world, its founder is saying thanks to the city the label calls home.
'Music, Melbourne and Me' is a celebration of Mushroom Records and the city in which it was born just over 40 years ago.
"At the time, very few labels signed Australian music. It was a backyard business, there were a lot of one-night stands and stuff," label founder Michael Gudinski says.
He sought to change that, signing on Skyhooks, Split Enz and Gyroscope.
But it was a more polished act which gave Mushroom the top selling Aussie single of the decade - Kylie Minogue's 'The Loco-motion'.
Kylie was soon shipped off to record in the UK as part of the label's nascent international division.
After a merger, then an eventual sale in 1998, Michael kept the Mushroom name for his Mushroom Group, which is still a major player in Australian music.
Since the Mushroom Records era passed, the way music is produced and consumed has changed irrevocably.
"You look back and go 'what a ride' - and the ride is not over yet," Michael Gudinski says.
The exhibtion is on at RMIT until March.
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