Toowoomba's Wonder Years 1960-75 by Kent Trussell and Don Duffus

In the 60's and 70's for an decade and an half the youth of Toowoomba Queensland along young entrepreneurs and long established family businesses explored as well as reveling and propelling an cultural revolution to the heights that no other Australian country town would ever experience and this is written by 2 guys Kent Trussell an career writer who printed and radio ads for Terry Herbert's venues in 1969 in Toowoomba as well as been an freelancer and an writer and an producer for the ABC as well as commercial radio stations in Sydney and South East Queensland as well for magazines and also written for magazines and Don Duffus who is Toowoomba born and bred who was on the music scene as well as working in the media as a radio annoucer,producer, sales manager, and Station manager as well as working on tv as a writer,producer,director,production manager, sales manager and general Manager and more recently was the Marketing manager for Home Ice Cream. In this book it has stories told by people who were on the scene in Toowoomba with musicians like Janelle Steinmuller, Chapter III, the Beaumen, the Defenders,the Countdowns, Carl Grozman(Steve and the Board), Jamie Dunn etc as well as the legendary musicians who performed there as well as the dance bands,jazz, folk and country music as well as the radio and television scene there as well as the life and times told by people who were there and many more. It is AWESOME,FANTASTIC and BRILLIANT with great pictures and great stories which i enjoyed reading it and was very impressed with it. In this book it has an foreword by Glenn Wheatley from the Masters Apprentices as well as John Farnham's manager and an message from Paul Antonio the Mayor of Toowoomba and there was an show recently at Rumours International Club which was part of the book launch with bands like the Beaumen, Chapter III, 12X5 Unlimited, Janelle Steinmuller and others. This book is a must for Queensland music fans which I give this 5 stars and it's still in the book shops in Queensland so do yourselves an favour and BUY IT.

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