Complex sentence: Connors spent the first half of the 1980s writing songs based on truck driving which became hits for Slim Dusty such as "I'm Married To My Bulldog Mack" and "Dieseline Dreams".
Split into simpler sentences: Connors spent the first half of the 1980s writing songs based on truck driving which became hits for Slim Dusty. Such examples involved "I'm Married To My Bulldog Mack" and "Dieseline Dreams".