sentences:  In September Rick Springfield (ex-Wickedy Wak) joined on lead guitar and vocals.Zoot undertook the Operation Starlift Tour with other Australian artists including Johnny Farnham, The Masters Apprentices, Burns, Morris, Johnny Young and The Valentines.For Zoot, the national tour brought increased media ridicule, peer envy and scorn from detractors – much of the criticism was homophobic, for their continuing use of pink outfits, where they were described as "pretty pink pansies".