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Love Like This Natalie Bassingthwaighte

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This is the memoir of Australian actress and singer Natalie Bassingthwaighte and in the book she talks about her upbringing in Mount Warragal an suburb of Wollongong, working at Kaos an comedy club/restaurant in Sydney, did the musicals RENT, Chicago, Grease and Footloose, playing Izzy Hoyland on the iconic Australian soap opera Neighbours, joined the Rogue Traders in 2004 who would achieve great success with the hit song Voodoo Child as the album Here Come The Drums, her 2 marriages including Cameron McGlinchy, hosting the TV show So You Think You Can Dance Australia, working with Kelly Clarkson, John Farnham, Alan Fletcher, Jackie Woodburne and Ian Smith and many others. It is FANTASTIC and BRILLIANT with FANTASTIC and Amazing stories as well as very impressive and very entertaining which it is well worth a read and Natalie is with the Rogue Traders with they are doing shows in Victoria, NSW, South Australia and Queensland throughout the year and also will be at the Stones Corner Fe...
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Flamingos Aren't Born Pink Robin Bailey

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This is the memoir of Brisbane radio personality Robin Bailey and in the book she talks about her upbringing in Sydney, losing her father at age 11, doing Hey Hey It's Saturday, working on Hobart and Adelaide TV, moving to Brisbane where she would achieve great success on radio with B105, 97.3 and Triple M, her 3 marriages including to Tony whom they had 3 sons which sadly ended when he committed suicide and Sean which sadly ended with his passing from liver cancer, working with BBQ Bob Gallagher, Jamie Dunn, Ian Skippen and Terry Hansen and many others. It is AMAZING, BRILLIANT and SUPERB as well as sad, touching and uplifting with Amazing and inspirational stories with a message of hope after what Robin has gone through she has emerged stronger, brighter and even more fiercely devoted to her family and this book should be a inspiration to anyone who have through similar situations themselves. Robin is back on 97.3 with Corey Oates and Kip from 6am until 10am which it is great t...
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Live Again Chain

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In 1972 iconic Australian blues band Chain released the album Live Again which it was recorded at Channel 9 Studios TCS (Television Sound) with the line up of Phil Manning, Warren "The Pig" Morgan, Glyn Mason, Barry Sullivan(Big Goose) and Barry Harvey(Little Goose) which that line up only lasted 8 weeks as there had been some line up changes during the period having achieve the great success in 1971 with the line up of Matt Taylor, Manning, Sullivan and Harvey doing the iconic album Towards the Blues and the hit single Black and Blue broke up and the album wasn't released until October 1972 which the tracks on the album original songs including 2 written by Warren The Pig Morgan and also it is now out on CD by Aztec Records. Besides the original tracks that was on the album there is bonus tracks which has a live recording in Sydney in 1970 with the line up of Manning, Mason, Morgan, Harvey and Sullivan which has a version of the Elvis Presley song Jailhouse Rock as well...
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Rarities by Jon English

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This is the new CD compilation by iconic Australian singer Jon English and it has b sides to some of the hits as well as an live recording from 1979 at the 2SM Concert of The Decade as well as some demos and many others. It is FANTASTIC and BRILLIANT with FANTASTIC songs which it is great to see hear stuff that has never been heard before which it is great to hear that stuff even the demos which are great to listen to. It's been 10 years since the passing of Jon English but the great music he made as well as the TV shows he did live on forever and should be considered for an ARIA Hall Of Fame for the impact he made on Australian music which it's time to do that. This is a must for Jon English fans and I give it 4 stars as it's in the shops now so please do yourselves a favour and BUY IT which you will be impressed and amazed.
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4KQ April 1968

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This is from the Redcliffe Herald April 24th 1968 and long before known as the Good Times and Great Classic Hits station as well as being an country music station for a time in the 80's 4KQ was one of Brisbane's popular radio stations at the time in the late 60's which the station was known as the Better Music station as it was playing easy listening music by acts like Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass.
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4BC April 1965

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This is from the Northern Suburbs Express April 21st 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 was Johnny James who had been with the station since the 1950's did the Breakfast Show daily doing the Top 40, Time Calls, the Weather Reports and the News.
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4BC April 1974

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This is from the Telegraph April 19th 1974 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 70's which besides being a music station which it still was at the time the station promoted shows which on Friday April 26th 1974 4BC promoted a show at the City Hall which had the Ormsby Brothers who had a hit with their version of the Lesley Gore 1964 hit You Don't Own Me, La De Das and Band Of Light.
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