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This is the autobiography of musician Jose McLaughlin and in this book he talks about his upbringing in Liverpool, the passing of his mother at age 6, starting playing piano at an young age, the music scene in Liverpool, playing in groups including The Joe Ray Me Trio, The Modern Blues Quartet, The Dials and The Elastic Band, joining Gerry and the Pacemakers in the 70's, moving to Australia in 1974, playing with New Dream, Pantha and Daniel, moving to the Gold Coast in the 80's where he played with the Executives, moving to Brisbane, working with Duane Eddy, The Doobie Brothers, Broderick Smith, Buddy England, Bo Diddley and many others. It is FANTASTIC, BRILLIANT and SUPERB with FANTASTIC, impressive and very entertaining stories and an FANTASTIC read which it well worth reading going on the journey from Liverpool to Australia. Jose wrote it with Tony Bolland and Jose does lectures at the Queensland Conservatorium Of Music and does some gigs still. This is an must for music

This is the autobiography of legendary American Blues harmonica player, singer and songwriter Billy Boy Arnold and in this book he talks about his upbringing in Chicago, got his first harmonica as an young boy, meeting Sonny Boy Williamson, starting playing on street corners, working with Bo Diddley which he gave him the name and he played on I'm A Man, the blues music scene in Chicago, Began recording for Cool Records and Vee Jay where he recorded the classics I Wish You Would and I Ain't Got You, had an day job as an bus driver and parole officer, working with Muddy Waters, Buddy Guy, Screamin Jay Hawkins, Earl Hooker and many others. It is FANTASTIC, BRILLIANT and SUPERB with FANTASTIC and BRILLIANT stories told by Billy as well as very impressive and very entertaining which it is an FANTASTIC which is well worth reading and taking us on the journey going through the blues scene in Chicago and the people he worked with. Bily Boy is still performing and this book is co

For the classic movies segment which I have not done since last year let's have a look at the 1961 movie A Raisin In The Sun. Walter Lee Young(Sidney Poitier) who lives in an Chicago apartment with his wife Ruth(Ruby Dee) and son Travis(Stephen Perry) along with his mother Lena(Claudia McNeil) and sister Beneatha (Diana Sands). Following the passing of their patriach Lena gets the money from the insurance payment and Walter who is an limousine driver want to have his own business while Beneatha wants to be an doctor and also Lena wants to get a house for the family to live in which gets interesting. it is an Fantastic movie and an good story which holds up very well to this day with great acting by Sidney Poitier along along with Ruby Dee, Claudia McNeil, Diana Sands and Stephen Perry and also in the cast Ivan Dixon who would work with Sidney Poitier in A Patch of Blue in 1965 playing his brother Mark, Roy Glenn who would also work with Sidney Poitier in the 1967 movie Gu

On Sunday afternoon I went to the Events Cinema to see the movie The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent. Actor Nick Cage (Nicolas Cage) who is having personal issues with his wife Olivia(Sharon Hargan) and daughter Addy(Lily Sheen) as well as not getting any acting roles accepts an million dollar offer from his agent Richard Fink (Neil Patrick Harris) to be an guest of honor at an party of billionaire Javi Gutierrez(Pedro Pascal) on an island and he plans to retire from acting. Nick and Javi starting to bond together with an love of movies and planning to create an script and Nick is confronted by 2 CIA agents Vivian (Tiffany Haddish) and Martin (Ike Barinholtz) to warn him that Javi is possibly behind the kidnapping of Maria who is the daughter of an anti crime politican with the hope that he willl drop out of the election and he helps with the mission which gets interesting. It is FANTASTIC, Very Funny and Very entertaining with FANTASTIC acting by Nicolas Cage, Pedro Pascal, T

This afternoon I went to the Events Cinema Carindale to see the movie The Lost city. Loretta Sage(Sandra Bullock) an writer who is an widow and recluse is promoting her book which she has to do appearances with Allan aka Dash(Channing Tatum) who is one of the cover of many of Loretta's books and she gets kidnapped by an billionaire named Abigail Fairfax (Daniel Radcliffe) who wants her to lead him to lost treasure in an ancient city from her book. Meanwhile Allan sets out to rescue Loretta with an little help from Jack Trainer (Brad Pitt) which leads to action packed chases climbing up mountains and many other while Loretta's publicist Beth(Da'Vine Joy Randolph) also looks for her and it gets very interesting. It is Fantatsic, very funny and very entertaining with Fantatsic acting by Sandra Bullock, Channing Tatum, Brad Pitt, Daniel Radcliffe, Da'Vine Joy Randolph and Patti Harrison. It's directed by brothers Adam and Aaron Nee and Sandra Bullock is one of the pr

Last weekend when I was on Facebook I saw the news about the passing of singer and member of the legendary Irish singing group the Bachelors Con Cluskey but it was not mentioned on the newspapers websites until the other day which I shared one of them one my Facebook. The Bachelors were the first Irish group to have an number 1 in the British charts and they started out at the the Harmonichords in 1957 with brothers Con and Dec Cluskey and John Stokes which they were playing mouth organs and played around Dublin. They played with the Radio Eireann Light on air as well as playing in the Theaters around Dublin and appeared on Opportunity Knocks hosted by Hughie Green on Radio Luxemburg. They made an apperance on the Ed Sullivan Show doing Danny Boy March 15th 1959 and did an 25 week run on the radio called Odd Balls hosted by Eammon Andrews which they did background music plus featured pieces and also started playing around Ireland which they added singing and playing guitars in the

This is the biography of NZ born Australian American country singer Keith Urban written by Jeff Apter and in the book it talks about Keith coming to Australia at an young age from New Zealand, living in Brisbane, getting guitar lessons from his teacher Sue McCarthy, playing around Brisbane with California Suite and Rusty and the Ayres Rockettes as well as Fractured Mirror and Obsure Alternatives, doing appearances on Country Homestead and New Faces, began recording for EMI, going to Nashville where he would achieve great success over there, his issues with alcohol and cocaine, his marriage to actress Nicole Kidman, working with Slim Dusty, Taylor Swift, Nile Rodgers and many others. It is very good and excellent with great stories as well as impressive ones and excellent research done by Jeff Apter who always does a great job.It is 31 years since Keith Urban began recording and his first actual hit was Only You which was number 101 nationally and number 37 in Brisbane and Keith is

It was 30 years ago this year when Rolling Stones guitarist and songwriter Keith Richards released his second solo album Main Offender which was the follow up to the 1988 album Talk Is Cheap album with his own band The X Pensive Winos and the album was recorded in New York and California from March 18th-September 6th 1992. It was produced by Keith, Steve Jordan and Waddy Watchel and it was released October 19th 1992 which went to number 45 in the UK, number 99 in the USA and number 96 in Australia. It is reissued again as I am reviewing the double CD edition which the first CD has the original album tracks and on the second CD has an live recording at the Town and Country Club in London England December 17th-18th 1992 which he performed some tracks from the album as well as songs from the Talk Is Cheap album and 3 Rolling Stones songs. It is FANTASTIC and BRILLIANT and the songs are just AWESOME which they sound great today and Keith and manager Jane Rose were the executive produ

This afternoon I went to the Dendy Cinema at Coorparoo to see the movie. Will Sharp(Yahya Abdul Mateen II) an decorated Veteran whose wife Maggie (Moses Ingram) is having medical surgery and does not have the money to that and goes to his brother Danny (Jake Gyllenhall) who is a life long criminal for help which he ask him to do an job and they robbed the bank which they held Officer Zach (Jackson White) hostage and is wounded by Will accidently and they hickjacked an ambulance with EMT Can Thompson (Elza Gonzalez) who is treating Zach and there is an car chase by the police while Cam fights to save Zach as well as doing surgery and it gets interesting. It is Gripping, Thrilling, FANTASTIC and BRILLIANT with FANTASTIC and BRILLIANT acting by Jake Gyllenhall, Yahya Abdul Mateen II, Elza Gonzalez, Jackson White, Moses Ingram and A Martinez who played Papi. It is directed by Michael Bay and he also produced it with Bradley J Fischer, James Vanderbilt, William Sherak and Ian Bryce.

On Wednesday morning I was on the computer on Facebook before going to work and I saw on Facebook that legendary American Bobby Rydell passed away which was shock to see that considering he was back on the road after Covid doing shows through the US which I couldn't believe it . Bobby Rydell who was born Robert Louis Ridarelli in Philadelphia April 26th 1942 started performing as an child appearing on the Paul Whiteman's TV Teen Club which he appeared on it for the next few years and played around the Philadelphia area which by then he changed his name to Bobby Rydell. He had his first hit single in 1959 on Cameo Records with Kissin Time which for the next over 4 years would have successful hit singles including We Got Love, Swinging School, Sway, Volare, Good Time Baby, I wanna Thank You, The Cha Cha Cha, Forget Him written by Tony Hatch and many others and made appearances on TV including American Bandstand hosted by Dick Clark, The Red Skelton Show, The Ed Sullivan Sho

On Monday MArch 28th I was looking on Facebook using the I Pad when I saw the news about the passing of bass player and member of the legendary Brisbane group the Avengers Garth Austin which was very sad and an sad loss to the Brisbane music scene and to his family. Garth had played with an band called Neil and the Vipers which played around locally and in 1964 he joined the band the Tropics who would become the Avengers when he replaced original bass player Terry Walcott when I remember Garth telling me that he had seen an advert about the band and was impressed with the sound. He then recommnded Roger Jellicoe who was in the Endeavours to the Avengers when Keith Ryan who was the original guitarist left in 1965 and that line of Ross Bentley, Graeme Rabnott, Mick Monaghan, Garth and Roger lasted until 1966 which they played at the 4BC spectacular with the Easybeats, Tony Worsley and the Fabulous Blue Jays and MPD Limited as well as the other Brisbane groups The Feelgoods, The

Today I went to the movies at Dendy Cinema Coorparoo to see the movie The Duke which it's based on an true story. It's 1961 and Kempton Bunton(Jim Broadbent) who is an taxi driver and who had been campaining for pensioners get free TV steals the portrait of the Duke Wellington done by Goya from the National Gallery in London and sending ransome notes saying that he will bring them back if the Government listens and then it gets interesting. It is Fantatsic, very funny and very entertaining with great acting by Jim Broadbent, Helne Mirren who plays his wife Dorothy, Fionn Whitehead, Matthew Goode and Anna Maxwell Martin. It was directed by Roger Michell and produced by Nicky Bentham. it is an feel good film and is an well worth movie to watch with great acting which I think it's one of the finest performances that Jim Broadbent has done and any movie that has Helen Mirren in it does it so very well. I give it 4 stars as it's in the cinemas now so do yourselves an fa