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===1975–1976: ''Ego Is Not a Dirty Word''===
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Skyhooks' 1975 national tour promoting ''Living in the 70's'' finished at Melbourne's [[Festival Hall, Melbourne|Festival Hall]] with their [[ANZAC Day]] (25 April) performance.<ref name="Jeff"/> They were supported by comedy singer [[Bob Hudson (Australian singer)|Bob Hudson]], heavy rockers [[AC/DC]] and New Zealand band [[Split Enz]].<ref name="Jenkins" /> Strachan then took two weeks off and considered leaving the band, but he returned – newly married – and they continued recording the follow-up album, ''[[Ego Is Not a Dirty Word]]''.<ref name="Jeff"/><ref name="JenB"/> Initially, they were locked out of the recording studio until their manager, Gudinski, sent down the money still owed for recording the first album.<ref name="Eliezer"/> ''Ego Is Not a Dirty Word'' spent 11 weeks at the top of the Australian album chart from 21 July 1975,<ref name="Kent"/> and sold 210,000 copies.<ref name="Eliezer"/> with the single, "[[Ego is Not a Dirty Word (song)|Ego Is Not a Dirty Word]]" issued in April ahead of the album,<ref name="SpencerSkyhooks"/> peaking at No. 2.<ref name="Kent"/> The next single, "[[All My Friends Are Getting Married]]" reached No. 2 in July,<ref name="Kent"/><ref name="SpencerSkyhooks"/> and was followed by "[[Million Dollar Riff]]" at No. 6 in October.<ref name="Kent"/><ref name="SpencerSkyhooks"/> Macainsh's then girlfriend, Jenny Brown,<ref name="Jeff"/> described the band in her 1975 book, ''Skyhooks : Million Dollar Riff''.<ref name="Brown">{{cite book|title=Skyhooks : Million Dollar Riff|last=Brown|first=Jennifer Lois|year=1975|publisher=Dingo|location=[[Collingwood, Victoria|Collingwood, Vic]]|isbn=0-909109-01-X}} Note: Brown was later known as Jenny Hunter Brown and then as Jen Jewel Brown.</ref> A live version of [[Chuck Berry]]'s "[[Let It Rock (Chuck Berry song)|Let It Rock]]" from a December performance was released as a single in March 1976 and reached No. 26.<ref name="McF"/><ref name="Kent"/>

With Australian commercial success achieved, Skyhooks turned to the US market. Gudinski announced a $1.5&nbsp;million deal with [[Mercury Records]]/[[Phonogram Records]],<ref name="McF"/> which released a modified international version of ''Ego Is Not a Dirty Word'' with "Horror Movie" and "You Just Like Me Cos I'm Good in Bed" from their first Australian album replacing two tracks.<ref name="McF"/><ref name="ARDb"/><ref name="Jeff"/> A US tour followed in March–April 1976, but critics described them as imitators of [[Kiss (band)|Kiss]] due to the similarity of Symons' make-up and stage act to that of [[Gene Simmons]],<ref name="Howl">{{cite web |last=Nimmervoll |first=Ed |author2=Greg Macainsh |title=Skyhooks |url=http://www.whiteroom.com.au/howlspace/en/skyhooks/skyhooks.htm |archive-url=https://webarchive.nla.gov.au/awa/20120726191200/http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/14231/20120727-0512/www.howlspace.com.au/en/skyhooks/skyhooks.htm |archive-date=26 July 2012 |access-date=22 January 2014 |publisher=Howlspace – The Living History of Our Music. White Room Electronic Publishing Pty Ltd (Ed Nimmervoll)}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> and despite limited success in [[Boston]], Massachusetts and [[Jacksonville, Florida]] they failed to make inroads into the general US market.<ref name="McF"/>

After completing their 1976 US tour, the band remained in San Francisco and recorded their third album with Wilson producing, ''[[Straight in a Gay Gay World]]'', which was released in August 1976 and peaked at No. 3 on the Australian album charts.<ref name="McF"/><ref name="Kent"/><ref name="SpencerSkyhooks"/> In July, upon return to Australia they launched The Brats Are Back Tour with a single, "[[This Is My City]]",<ref name="SpencerSkyhooks"/> which peaked at number 32.<ref name="Kent"/> "[[Blue Jeans (Skyhooks song)|Blue Jeans]]" followed in August and peaked at No. 12 on the singles chart.<ref name="McF"/><ref name="Kent"/><ref name="SpencerSkyhooks"/> By October, Strachan provided his debut solo single, "[[Every Little Bit Hurts]]" (a [[cover version|cover]] of [[Brenda Holloway]]'s 1964 hit).