Posts

4BH October 1968

Image
This is from the Telegraph October 15th 1968 and now the classic hits station in Brisbane in 2026 as well as the number 1 Brisbane radio station 4BH was one of Brisbane's popular radio stations at the time in the late 60's which among their disc jockeys were Geoff Bradley who did Breakfast Monday To Saturday, John Kerr doing Drive Time from 4pm to 7pm Monday To Friday and Saturday afternoon, Scott McKinlay from 9pm until Midnight Monday To Friday and Sunday Mornings and Alan Hart who was on from 2pm to 4pm in the afternoon and 7pm to 9pm in the evenings and Saturday mornings playing top 40 music as well as yesteryear and modern music albums.

4BC October 1963

Image
This is from the Telegraph October 14th 1963 and now the talk back station as it is the only commercial one here in Brisbane 4BC was one of Brisbane's popular music radio stations at the time in the 60's which among their disc jockeys was Geoff Atkinson who was on Monday to Friday at 4pm doing the Top 40 Go Show playing the music that was in the top 40 at the time as 4BC had been the first radio station in Brisbane to do the Top 40 which happened May 19th 1958.

Thje Social Reckoning

Image
I went to the Dendy Cinema Coorparoo this afternoon to see the movie The Social Reckoning which it's based on an true story and it's 2019 Jeff Horwitz (Jeremy Allen White) is an reporter from the Wall Street Journal who joined up with San Francisco Bureau as a tech reporter is assigned to cover Facebook which he meets Frances Haugen (Mikey Madison) who works for Facebook in the Civic Integrity Team having been an data engineer who is showing concerns about the leaderships at the company priotizing engaement as revnue over user safety meanwhile Facebook co founder Mark Zuckerberg (Jeremy Strong) is preparing to testify to the United States Senate which gets interesting as well as the secrets that would come out. It's Gripping, Fantastic and Brilliant with FANTASTIC acting by Jeremy Allen White, Mikey Madison and Jeremy Strong and it's directed by Aaron Sorkin who was one of the producers with Todd Black, Peter Rice, Tony A Grier and Stuart M Besser well as also doing t...

Rubber Soul The Beatles

Image
On December 3rd 1965 British rock group The Beatles released their 6th studio album Rubber Soul which it went to number 1 in the UK, USA and Australia and it was the album that signified the change in the music of the Beatles as they were experimenting with different sounds as well as their songs were going away from the early pop stuff like Please Please Me, From Me To You, She Loves You to more expressive and thoughtful lyrics which was influenced by Bob Dylan as well as there was not hit singles from the album even though Nowhere Man was a hit in the US, Australia and some of the other countries including Germany and Canada. The album also had all original material mainly written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney as well as 2 written by George Harrison including If I Needed Someone which was influenced by the Byrds as well as British rock group The Hollies had an number 20 hit with the song at the time and it is now out again on CD which I am reviewing the double CD edition as the...

4BK October 1977

Image
This is from the Telegraph October 7th 1977 and until 1990 when it became B105 4BK was one of Brisbane's popular radio stations at the time in the 1970's which during the weekend of October 8th and 9th 1977 4BK did the American Weekend as they were playing the best of American music which was presented by Peter Shearer's which it was Menswear shop which was on Queen Street in the city.

Queen Budapest

Tonight I went to the Dendy Cinema Coorparoo where I saw the rock concert movie Queen Budapest. In 1986 British rock band Queen were doing the Magic Tour which one of the shows was in Budapest at the Nepstadion on July 27th 1986 in front of 80,000 fans which it was the first Western Rock concert performed behind the Iron Curtain in an stadium and the tour was the last one with lead singer Freddie Mercury. the show was filmed and it is now remastered in 4K with an powerful new audio mix. At the show they performed many of their classic hits including Under Pressure, I Want To Break Free, Bohemian Rhapsody and many others and it also has behind the scenes with the band members as well as interviews with members Roger Taylor and Brian May. It is AWESOME, ROCKIN and SUPERB with FANTASTIC songs as well as the film quality look FANTASTIC and watching Queen at their peak really at the top of their game with Freddie being the showman with Brian, Roger and John Deacon playing great too. It...

4BC October 1965

Image
This is from the Telegraph October 6th 1965 and now the talk back station as it is the only commercial one here in Brisbane 4BC was one of Brisbane's top music radio stations at the time in the 60's which among their disc jockeys were Geoff Atkinson, Tony MacArthur and Bob Wills who were on 4 to Midnight Daily and all day Sunday which there was an competiton at the time when the listners had to entry to win an AWA Transistorised Portable Radiogram which there was one for the boys and one for the girls.