Men at Work was an Australian rock band formed in 1979. Their founding mainstay was Colin Hay on lead vocals; he formed the group with Jerry Speiser on drums and Ron Strykert on lead guitar. They were joined by Greg Ham on flute, saxophone, and keyboards and John Rees on bass guitar. By early 1986 the band was defunct and lead singer Colin Hay started recording his first solo album. By mid-1996, after a ten-year absence, Hay and Greg Ham reformed Men at Work to tour South America. One of their European tours for mid-2000 was cancelled and the group had disbanded by 2002, although Hay and Ham periodically reunited Men at Work with guest musicians (including an appearance in February 2009, when they performed "Down Under" as a duo for a telethon. Greg Ham died in 2012.
