Marcia Shines was the debut album in Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

 as a solo artist for Afro-Australian singer Marcia Hines

Marcia Hines

Marcia Elaine Hines, AM is a vocalist, actress and TV personality who achieved success in her adopted homeland of Australia. Hines made her debut, at the age of sixteen, in the Australian version of the stage musical Hair and followed with the role of Mary Magdalene in Jesus Christ Superstar...

. Hines had been resident in Australia since 1970, when she was brought here by Harry M Miller to appear in the Australian production of Hair

Hair (musical)

Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical is a rock musical with a book and lyrics by James Rado and Gerome Ragni and music by Galt MacDermot. A product of the hippie counter-culture and sexual revolution of the 1960s, several of its songs became anthems of the anti-Vietnam War peace movement...

. "Marcia Shines" first made the Australian charts in October 1975, and peaked at number 4 in January 1976.

Track listing

1. Fire and Rain
2. Trilogy
3. Don't Let the Grass Grow
4. From the Inside
5. If This Was the Last Song
6. Jumpin' Jack Flash
7. You Gotta Let Go
8. But It's Alright
9. I Need It Just as Bad as You
10. Easy Evil