With their multi-platinum, chart-topping debut album, Baby Animals one of the best-selling Australian rock bands of the 1990s. Frontwoman Suze DeMarchi, guitarist Dave Leslie, drummer Frank Celenza, and bassist Eddie Parise formed the group in 1989 in Sydney, Australia, and released the self-titled debut record Baby Animals two years later. The album spent six weeks at Number 1 on the ARIA Albums Chart and produced the Top 40 hits "Early Warning," "Rush You," and "One Word." It also won four ARIA Music Awards, including "Album of the Year," and went eight times platinum, setting an all-time record for album sales that wouldn't be broken until the release of Jet's Get Born in 2003. Baby Animals' success also extended to the United States, where the band spent much of 1992 opening for Van Halen. One year later, Baby Animals released the sophomore album Shaved and Dangerous, which reached Number 2 in Australia and quickly went gold. The group returned to America once again, this time to tour alongside Led Zeppelin frontman Robert Plant. However, Baby Animals' momentum stalled when their record label folded in 1995, and the group broke up one year later. A decade passed before the band's founding lineup reformed in 2007 and released an acoustic album, Il Grande Silenzio, in 2008. Celenza and Parise left the band in 2009, and Baby Animals reshuffled its lineup in time for the band's fourth album, This Is Not the End, which reached Number 19 on the ARIA Albums Chart upon its release in 2013. To celebrate the 25-year anniversary of the band's debut album, BA25 was released in 2016 and hit Number 78 in Australia, and the band continued to tour sporadically during the subsequent years.
