Education
Born Andrew McArthur Smith in Sydney, Australia on 16 January 1956, he later attended North Sydney Boys High in the same year group as future Australian cricket captain Allan Border.
Born Andrew McArthur Smith in Sydney, Australia on 16 January 1956, he later attended North Sydney Boys High in the same year group as future Australian cricket captain Allan Border.
Smith wrote many of their hit songs including "Live it Up" which peaked at Number. 2 on the Australian singles chart. Smith has a solo music career, he has worked with other bands and is also an artist and television personality.
Showing an interest in Art he moved on to the East Sydney Technical College (now known as the National Art School) in Darlinghurst in the mid-1970s while also holding down a part-time job as a bottle shop attendant.
At college he met fellow students, Martin Murphy, Chris O"Doherty, David Twohill and Steve Coburn, whose band,, had been playing art school parties and dances since May 1976. While playing harmonica in another band at the time, Smith started appearing on stage with from around December.
He was eventually cajoled fellow members to learn keyboards on an old wedding reception organ to fill in their sound and he quit his other band. Although Smith is not as well known an artist as Regional Mombassa, his best known artwork is from his Storm Clouds Over the Piazza series that was exhibited at the Mentals III travelling art exhibition in 1997.
These portraits are based on his legendary unfinished novel of the same name, a rambling World World War II saga that he used to mention in interviews but is actually fictional in itself.
Smith acquired the nickname Greedy around 1978 or 1979 when before a show he demolished the better part of a bucket of Kentucky Fried Chicken prior to going on stage. He was however still billed as Andy Smith on a promotional photo from early 1979. and side projects In 1982, Smith played with Twohill in a group called The Space Shuttle Ramblers that recorded an European Parliament, however the tapes were destroyed in a studio flood prior to release. In 1992, during the sabbatical he formed a side group called Greedy"s on the Loose that played gigs and recorded however no product was released.
In 1996 he recorded a solo album Love Harmonica for Trans World Airlines in his home studio, this led to live work with a band dubbed and the re-recording in full band mode and subsequent re-release of the album.
This new version of the album also on Trans World Airlines, retitled, included a bonus recording of The Carpenters" Close to You. Rock historian, Ian McFarlane, described Love Harmonica as an album of "easy-listening love songs that featured latin, popular and jazz rhythms with lush harmonica as the lead instrument." This led to further media opportunities such as hosting episodes and segments of the music shows Countdown, including the associated Countdown Awards, and Sounds.
In the late 1980s he was often a judge on the "Red Faces" segment of Hey Hey lieutenant"s Saturday and in the early 1990s he hosted Tonight Live With Steve Vizard for a week in the absence of the regular host. He has more recently appeared regularly on the music quiz show Spicks and Specks.
All early members of are also artists and have exhibited their artworks since 1982. As the most gregarious member of, in the early days he was often relied upon to give interviews for television, radio and press