Best-known for their early '80s new wave pop hits, particularly "I Got You," Split Enz - after surviving a dizzying array of image and personnel changes and a full decade without any recognition outside of their homeland - became the first New Zealand band to achieve worldwide success. Although they never reached superstar status outside of Australia and New Zealand, the band developed a strong international cult following which continued to thrive over a decade after their break-up. Split Enz's output always seemed slightly outside of the times and often frustratingly obscure, but in the end, they left behind a body of work that was always interesting and often reached pure pop brilliance.
An excellent biography of Split Enz can be found
here.