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Last night I went to QPAC Concert Hall to see Al Jardine who is one of the founding members of the iconic American band the Beach Boys with his own band The Pet Sounds Band which includes his son Matt who sang with the Beach Boys in the 90's and the others musicians in the band played with Brian Wilson for many years and it was my first time to see Al live as I did not see him perform with the Beach Boys in the 90's as well as in 2012 when the surviving members got back together for the album That's Why God Made The Radio and tour including Brisbane but at least I got the opportunity to QPAC which was originally intended for October last year but was rescheduled. I caught the bus to South Bank, went to the Plough Inn where I had Sirloin Pork Chops, chips and Salad for dinner, drank Pepsi Max, went to NZ Natural Ice Cream, ate movie bowl Sundae and walk to QPAC. Put bag in cloak room, bought bag and CD, drank Coke with No Sugar, bought photo, went inside and waited. The sho...

This is from the Bribie Star June 29th 1962 and now the talk back station as it is 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 50's and would be there until the early 70's did the Top 40 Breakfast Show daily.

This is from the Telegraph June 27th 1958 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 1950's which among their shows that was on at the time were Tops In Time at 5.30pm, TAA Hit Parade at 6pm and These Were the Hits at 6.30pm which they were on Sunday night and also with the TAA Hit Parade the listener would win 180 pounds Jackpot.

These are from the Telegraph June 26th 1970 and until 1992 when it became 4TAB which it is now Radio TAB 4IP was one of Brisbane's top music radio stations at the time in the early 70's which besides from being an music radio station it promoted events which they promoted 2 events that weekend in June 1970 as the first was the Grand Final of the Queensland Pop Festival that had Brisbane groups The Light, Burke and Wills(including Jamie Dunn), Cherry Tree, Gentle Art, Trinity House, The Movement and Michael Turner In Session with special Guest stars Ross D Wyllie and the Sect won the Grand Final in 1969 with backing by the Brisbane group The Flamingoes and the 2nd event was the Sunday Funday at Carina Oval that had the 4IP Good Guys, the Queensland Pop Festival winners, Military and Pipe bands as well as appearances by Lord Mayor Clem Jones and Bruce Small.

This is from the Telegraph June 25th 1956 (70 Years ago today) and now the talk back station as it is the only commercial one here in Brisbane 4BC was one of Brisbane's popular radio stations at the time in the 1950's which among their radio personalities was Jim Illiffe who would acheive great success on TV from the late 50's until the 70's on Channel 9 was on in the mornings and afternoons.

This is from the Telegraph June 24th 1964 and this was the 4BK Top 10 charts with Brisbane singer Billy Thorpe with the Aztecs at number 1 with their version of the Coasters 1959 hit Poison Ivy, Peter Paul and Mary who had been in Brisbane that month on the 3rd at number 2 with Tell It On The Mountain, Cilla Black at number 3 with You're My World, The Beatles at number 4 with Can't Buy Me Love, Mary Wells at number 5 with the song written by Smokey Robinson from the Miracles My Guy, Bill Haley and His Comets at number 6 with Rock Around the Clock which had re-released at the time in Australia, Millie at number 7 with My Boy Lollipop, Elvis Presley at number 8 with the title song from the movie he did with Ann Margaret Viva Las Vegas, Tommy Roe at number 9 with his version of the Chuck Berry song Carol and the Beatles at number 10 with Boys(with Ringo Starr on lead vocal)/Long Tall Sally(with Paul McCartney on lead vocal) and this was the week before the Beatles played the 2 sh...