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4BH February 1963

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This is from the Sunday truth February 10th 1963 and now the classic hits station here in Brisbane 4BH was one of Brisbane's popular radio stations at the time in the early 60's which among their disc jockeys were Barry Matheson, Bill Gates who was the one who gave the Bee Gees their name as well as doing record hops around Brisbane including the O'Connor Boathouse on North Quay, Brian Henderson who was the iconic music TV show Bandstand at the time, Ben Beckinsale and iconic Sydney radio personality John Laws who were on Sundays at 5pm doing the Holeproof Hosiery Show.

4BH February 1957

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This is from the Telegraph February 9th 1957 and now the classic hits station here in Brisbane 4BH was one of Brisbane's popular radio stations at the time in the 50's which among their disc jockeys was Bob Rogers who had been with the station since 1950 and would achieve great success on Sydney radio was on at 9pm presenting Rock'n'Roll playing the latest rock'n'roll records that was out at the time and also was brought to the listners by H G Shirts.

4BC February 1974

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This is from the Telegraph February 8th 1974 and now the talk back station which it is the only commercial one here in Brisbane 4BC was one of Brisbane's popular radio stations at the time in the 70's which besides from the music station it also promoted shows which the next night February 9th 4BC did the show Back To School Rock show at the City Hall which cost $2.00 and also the acts on the bill were La De Das, Doug Parkinson, Home, Mother's Light Show, Hot Weasel Band and Abel Magwitch.

Hamnet

This afternoon I went to the Angelika Cinemas Woolloongabba to see the movie Hamnet. Agnes Hathaway(Jessie Buckley) summons a hawk when she first meets William Shakespeare( Paul Mescal) who is a tutor and fall in love with her which she is pregnant with his child that leads to her family disowning her and lives with William which they get married and they would have 3 children Susanna and the twins Hamnet and Judith while all that happend William goes to London for a career in the theatre which he would become successful and then tragedy struck with the passing of Hamnet and that leads to William to write a play Hamlet inspired by Hamnet's passing while they marriage is getting strained which gets interesting. It is AMAZING, BRILLIANT and SUPERB as well as sad with top, Amazing and Briiliant acting by Jessie Buckley, Paul Mescal, Emily Watson,Joe Alwyn, Jacobi Jupe and Olivia Lynes. It was directed by Chleo Zhao who also did the screenplay with Maggie O'Farrell and produced by ...

4BH February 1966

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This is from the Telegraph February 7th 1966(60 Years Ago Today) and now the classic hits station here in Brisbane in 2026 4BH was one of Brisbane's popular radio stations at the time in the 60's which among their disc jockeys was Ben Beckinsale who later on became the program director for the station was on 5am to 9am Monday to Friday doing the Breakfast Session playing the Top 40 which also the station was known as the Top Dog Station.

Working Class Man Jimmy Barnes(Documentary)

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This is the documentary about Australian music legend Jimmy Barnes which this is the follow up to the documentary Working Class Boy in 2018 that talked about his childhood up to the early 70's and in this documentary he talks about leaving Adelaide with a band called Cold Chisel to Armidale to escape his past, going back to Adelaide where they played the live circut including the Largs Piers Hotel, achieving success with Cold Chisel with classic songs including Khe Sahn, You Got Nothing I Want, My Baby, Flame Trees as well as albums including East and Circus Animals before breaking up in 1983, going to a solo career which has been very successful with hit albums including Working Class Man, Freight Train Heart and Two Fires as well as songs including Working Class Man, No Second Prize and Ride the Night Away, his marriage to Jane which it's still going as well as having 4 children, his issues with drugs and alcohol, his recent health scares and many others. It is AWESOME, BRI...

4BC February 1963

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This is from the Northern Suburbs Express February 5th 1963 and now the talk back station which it's the only commercial one here in Brisbane 4BC was one of Brisbane's popular radio stations at the time in the early 60's which among their disc jockeys was Johnny James who had been with the station since the 1950's as he would be there until the early 70's who did the Top 40 Breakfast show every morning which the advert was for the listeners to win cash in the Progressive Jackpot competition.