89 Alfred Cresent, Fitzroy North was the home of Red Symons 1998, has sold for the record price of $5,000,000 for the Melbourne suburb.
Symons purchase the house for $730,000 in 1998. Red and his now ex-wife Elly did an extensive renovation of the property 10 years ago.
200 people came out to watch the auction, arguably more than who saw Symons’ old band Skyhooks in their very early days.
Red Symons was the guitarist for Skyhooks having joined the band in 1973, before Shirley Strachan had joined the band.
Symons left Skyhooks after the third album ‘Straight In A Gay Gay World’. Bob Spencer of Finch/Contraband replaced him.
In 1985, Red Symons started a TV career as criminal Gordon Miller in Neighbours. He was then recruited for Hey Hey Its Saturday band and evolved to his own spot in the show’s Red Faces.
In 2003 Red took over the breakfast show for ABC Radio, Melbourne. He left at the end of 2017.
Red participated in the Skyhooks reunions of 1983, 1990 and 1994.
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