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Their debut album also titled Walking on a Dream, released in October 2008, to date has been certified platinum in Australia[5] and has spawned the top 25 hit We Are the People .[6] Empire of the Sun has gained mainstream media attention for gaining fourth position on the BBC’s annual Sound of Music poll 2009.[7] They are currently signed to EMI Australia and Virgin UK.[8]
However, the pair fell out when Steele chose to use a different version of the song. Littlemore later told Rolling Stone Australia I’m a very intense person and I take things to heart. They reunited for two songs on Pnau's self-titled album in 2007 - Freedom and opener With You Forever . Littlemore has commented when [Peter Mayes and I] wrote 'With You Forever', I knew straight away I had to send it to Luke. A day later, he called me up and sang the whole thing over the phone to me.” These initial sessions sparked what would later become Empire of the Sun (under the working title of Steelemore).[11]
Although the name of the project has been attributed to the 1984 novel of the same name by J. G. Ballard,[5] Littlemore denies this and offers an explanation, saying, the name comes more from the idea of (and you'll see this in the ongoing videos) the fact that we're traveling around the world going to all the places of empires of the civilization where the sun has been a theme of worship. It's not based on the Ballard novel nor the Spielberg film of the same name. [10]
Empire of the Sun appeared for the first time in a Triple J Hottest 100 with two entries in the 2008 countdown: We Are the People at number 68 and Walking on a Dream at number 4.[26] On 22 July 2009, Empire of the Sun made a special broadcast in conjunction with the solar eclipse that occurred on that day, which included a sneak preview of their forthcoming performance at the Parklife Festival in Australia. Luke Steele performed Breakdown and Swordfish Hotkiss Night .[27]
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