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This is the autobiography of legendary Australian tennis player Evonne Goolagong Cawley and in the book she talks about her upbringing in Barellan, starting playing Tennis at an young age, moved to Sydney at age 12 with coach Vic Edwards who played an big part in her career, winning 7 Grand Slam single titles including Wimbeldon twice in 1971 and 1980 as a mother which had not been done since 1914, her marriage to Roger Cawley in 1975 which they are still together, living in America until the early 90's when they returned to Australia to live, her encounters with people including Margaret Court, Chris Evert, Glen Campbell and Billie Jean King, learning about her culture and many others. It is FANTASTIC and BRILLIANT as well as very impressive and very entertaining which it is well worth a read and there has been interest recently about Evonne as there was an mini series shown on the ABC in January this tear called Goolagong. This is a must for Australian sport fans and I give ...

Yesterday afternoon I went to the Leftys Music Hall on Caxton Street to see legendary Australian singer-songwriter Ross Wilson known for the 2 legendary Australian bands Daddy Cool and Mondo Rock and it was my first time going to Leftys which I had heard so much about but never been there until yesterday as well as being my 9th time seeing Ross live as the last time I saw him was at Koala Tavern Saturday June 24th 2023. The show started at 3.30pm with the support act Turns doing an short set and there was an interval which I had Pepsi Max. Ross Wilson came out at about 4.20pm and for the next hour and an half did an set of the Daddy Cool songs as well as the Mondo Rock songs as well as some of solo work including Touch of Paradise which was the hit for John Farnham as well as performing 2 Skyhooks songs as he produced the 1st three albums for Skyhooks as well as mentioning his first visit to Brisbane in 1969 with the Party Machine as he mentioned that the band were ripped off and talk...

Yesterday afternoon I went to Redland Performing Arts Centre to see the Elvis Presley tribute show Elvis Can't Help Falling in Love with Elvis tribute performer Tristan James which it was my 3rd time seeing him. The show started at 2pm with clips of Elvis Presley were shown on the screen Tristan came out wearing the blue gear which Elvis wore during the 70's came on stage an medley of Elvis' 50's hits as well as doing the Elvis classics including Love Me Tender which Tristan with the help of his wife was handling scarfs to the ladies coming up the stage, Wonder Of You and It's Now Or Never which then did the Elvis Aloha From Hawaii as they showed clips of Elvis in the 70's Tristan changed clothes to the gear Elvis wore at the show performing the songs Elvis did including Steamroller Blues, See See Rider, My Way and many others. The show finished at 3.40pm, Tristan came out to have photos taken with the fans including myself, stop @ Coles, caught back to Carinda...

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.

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.

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...