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On April 26th 1975 iconic British rock band Pink Floyd performed at the Los Angeles Sports Arena at the time when they were coming from the Dark Side of the Moon stardom into the rock stadium act and it was recorded by an man named Mike (Mike The Mic)Millard who was known for recording shows with his recording equipment and it was never released until last year (2025) for the I Wish You Could Be Here boxset which it is out now on it's own. On the CD it has the songs mainly from the Dark Side of The Moon and the Wish You Could Be Here albums as well as 2 tracks that would later be on the 1977 album Animals and others well as among the backing musicans were Venetta Fields as an backing vocalist . It is FANTASTIC and BRILLIANT with FANTASTIC and BRILLIANT songs which holds up very well and the quality is just FANTASTIC which it is well worth lsitening too. The album went to number 46 in the UK, number 82 in the USA and number 43 in Australia. This is a must for Pink Floyd fans and I ...

This is the memoir of American actress Lisa Rinna and in the book she talks about life in California, losing her sister, moving to Oregon, her career as a model, landed the role of Billie Reed on the daytime soap Days of Our Lives, playing on Melrose Place, her marriage to actor Harry Hamill who was from the TV show LA Law, doing the Real Housewives of Hollywood as well as the behind the scenes, working with Christie Clark, Alison Sweeney, Heather Locklear and many others. It is Excellent, very impressive and very entertaining with impressive stories and it is well worth a read. Lisa has just done the show The Traitors as well as Running Point and the movie Stop That Train. This is a must for fans of Days Of Our Lives and Melrose Place and I live it 4 stars as it's in the shops now so please do yourselves an favour and BUY IT which you will be impressed and amazed.

This is the book about the iconic Australian music shows from the 60's and 70's Uptight and Happening 70/71/72 and in the book written by TV archivists Milton Hammon and Brett Leslie it talks about the shows history as well as the acts who appeared on it as well the episode guides of the shows which there is some that has no info on certain episodes as well as memories of the shows hosts Ross D Wyllie and Jeff Phillips as well as memories of the acts who appeared on the shows including Peter Robinson from the Strangers, Lily Brett who worked for Go Set the music magazine at the time, Bill Duff who worked for Festival Records and the company Lewis Young Productions and there is plenty of pictures of the acts of the time who appeared on the shows. It's AWESOME, BRILLIANT and SUPERB with AWESOME stuff as well as FANTASTIC info and it is well worth an read. Brett and Milton who have the books about other Australian music shows the Go Show and Kommotion and Countdown as well as...

This is from the Telegraph September 21st 1966 and this was the 4BK Top 40 charts with the Beatles at number 1 with the double sided Yellow Submarine with Ringo Starr on lead vocals and Eleanor Rigby with Paul McCartney on lead vocals which were from the Revolver album, the Easybeats at number 2 with the EP Easyfever, Ray Conniff at number 3 with Somewhere My Love and the Hollies at number 4 with the song written by future 10CC member Graham Gouldman as well as the first recording with bass player Bernie Calvert who replaced original bass player Eric Haydock Bus Stop. The New entries in the charts that week were the Lovin Spoonful at number 30 with Summer In The City, Donovan at number 32 with Sunshine Superman and The Kinks at number 33 with Sunny Afternoon and besides from the Easybeats the other Australian acts in the charts that week were Johnny Young and Kompany at number 11 with Step Back written by Stevie Wright and George Young from the Easybeats, Brisbane group the Purple Hea...

This afternoon I went to the Dendy Cinema Coorparoo to see the movie Coyote vs Acme. Wile E Coyote who has been trying to get the Roadrunner but fails goes to an law firm called Avery Jones and Maltese in Albuquerque where he meets one of the lawyers Kevin Avery( Will Forte) and wants to sue the company Acme for various defective devices used to getting the Road Runner and Kevin's niece as well as intern Paige(Lana Condor) wants to take the case to court but Kevin perfers to settles while Acme which it's led by Buddy Crane(John Cena) wants to settle the case with an settlement but Wile refuses which leads to trail and the firm wants the Roadrunner to testify but evades while Acme with CEO Foghorn Leghorn warning Buddy to prevent secrets coming out for the trail and Kevin starts getting a tip off which leads him to meet of the Acme employers Daffy Duck and it gets interesting. It is excellent, very funny and very entertaining with excellent acting by Will Forte, Lana Condor,Jo...

This is from the Telegraph September 19th 1961 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 early 60's which among their disc jockeys were Norman Llewelyn and Bill Gates who was the one who gave the Bee Gees their name as well as doing the record hops around Brisbane including O'Connor Boathouse which was in the city on North Quay at the time were doing an show on Monday to Friday from 4pm until 6pm called Music While You Drive Home which was especially an program for Motorists.