He achieved fame as the lead singer of Australian Crawl, and subsequently went on to a successful solo career.

His father, Rodney Michael Reyne, was an English-born former Royal Marine who served as aide-de-camp to the governor of the state of Victoria, Sir Dallas Brooks,[1] and subsequently worked for British Petroleum.

Reyne lived in Mount Eliza, Victoria, was educated at the Peninsula School and studied drama at the Victorian College of Arts.

[3] In late 1978, Clutch Cargo was renamed Australian Crawl and started to gain popularity on the pub circuit.

Their most popular songs are "Reckless", "Beautiful People", "Errol", "The Boys Light Up", "Things Don't Seem", "Oh No Not You Again" and "Downhearted".

[11] The first two singles released from the album, "Fall of Rome" and "Hammerhead", were top-10 hits in Australia,[12] followed by the less-successful "Rip It Up" and "Heaven On a Stick".

The album was re-packaged in 1988 to include a further top 10 single, "Motor's Too Fast" (peaking at #6 on the ARIA chart[13][12]), replacing "Coin in a Plate", which had appeared on the original 1987 release.

The project was launched with a live televised performance on Australia's MTV program on the Nine Network and an Australian tour in late 1989.

Mindful of the American market (where the album was released under the title of Any Day Above Ground), Electric Digger Dandy included a revamped version of the Australian Crawl hit "Reckless" as well as a cover of John Hiatt's "Stood Up", a duet with American singer-songwriter Tony Joe White.

[13] Later that year he joined former Sherbet frontman Daryl Braithwaite, Jef Scott and Simon Hussey to create the album Company of Strangers, which spawned three Australian top 50 singles: "Motor City (I Get Lost)", "Sweet Love", "Daddy's Gonna Make You a Star".

[13] October 1994 saw the release of his fourth album, on the RooArt label, The Whiff of Bedlam, recorded in Los Angeles with Stewart Levine.

The singles released from the album were "Red Light Avenue", "Day in the Sun" (Dec 1994) and "It's Only Natural" (April 1995).

[citation needed] Reyne and his band continued overseas to Europe, UK and South America.

In September 1996, Reyne took to the Enmore Theatre stage in a David Atkins production of the musical Little Shop of Horrors.

This was followed in March 2005 by the album ...And The Horse You Rode In On, which contained acoustic reworkings of some of his best-known solo and Australian Crawl compositions.

In April 2010 Reyne released, TCB (Taking Care of Business), a collection of Elvis Presley covers.

Performing only songs from the Australian Crawl catalogue, Reyne stated it was the closest thing to a reunion as fans were ever to get.

[citation needed] In July 2019, Reyne released an original song titled "Fearless" for the Australian film Palm Beach soundtrack.