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Rubber Soul The Beatles

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On December 3rd 1965 British rock group The Beatles released their 6th studio album Rubber Soul which it went to number 1 in the UK, USA and Australia and it was the album that signified the change in the music of the Beatles as they were experimenting with different sounds as well as their songs were going away from the early pop stuff like Please Please Me, From Me To You, She Loves You to more expressive and thoughtful lyrics which was influenced by Bob Dylan as well as there was not hit singles from the album even though Nowhere Man was a hit in the US, Australia and some of the other countries including Germany and Canada. The album also had all original material mainly written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney as well as 2 written by George Harrison including If I Needed Someone which was influenced by the Byrds as well as British rock group The Hollies had an number 20 hit with the song at the time and it is now out again on CD which I am reviewing the double CD edition as the...
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4BK October 1977

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This is from the Telegraph October 7th 1977 and until 1990 when it became B105 4BK was one of Brisbane's popular radio stations at the time in the 1970's which during the weekend of October 8th and 9th 1977 4BK did the American Weekend as they were playing the best of American music which was presented by Peter Shearer's which it was Menswear shop which was on Queen Street in the city.
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Queen Budapest

Tonight I went to the Dendy Cinema Coorparoo where I saw the rock concert movie Queen Budapest. In 1986 British rock band Queen were doing the Magic Tour which one of the shows was in Budapest at the Nepstadion on July 27th 1986 in front of 80,000 fans which it was the first Western Rock concert performed behind the Iron Curtain in an stadium and the tour was the last one with lead singer Freddie Mercury. the show was filmed and it is now remastered in 4K with an powerful new audio mix. At the show they performed many of their classic hits including Under Pressure, I Want To Break Free, Bohemian Rhapsody and many others and it also has behind the scenes with the band members as well as interviews with members Roger Taylor and Brian May. It is AWESOME, ROCKIN and SUPERB with FANTASTIC songs as well as the film quality look FANTASTIC and watching Queen at their peak really at the top of their game with Freddie being the showman with Brian, Roger and John Deacon playing great too. It...
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4BC October 1965

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This is from the Telegraph October 6th 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 were Geoff Atkinson, Tony MacArthur and Bob Wills who were on 4 to Midnight Daily and all day Sunday which there was an competiton at the time when the listners had to entry to win an AWA Transistorised Portable Radiogram which there was one for the boys and one for the girls.
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Verity

This afternoon I went to the Events Cinema Carindale where I saw the movie Verity. Lewon Ashleigh (Dakota Johnson) who is a writer is on her way to the Book publisher company which on the way she meets an man named Jeremy Crawford(Josh Harnett) and goes to the company where she is offered to do 3 books in 24 months for Verity Crawford( Anne Hathaway) who is an well known writer as well as being Jeremy's wife and she goes stays at their place where she goes through notes as well as computer and USB where she discovers an autobiography that Verity has written where she discovers interersting things about her life as well as Lewon sees Verity who is catatonic after an car accident as well as She is starting to think she has seen Verity looking at her as well as moving around and also she and Jeremy are having an liking for each other as well as secrets are starting to emerge which gets interesting. It is gripping, interesting and excellent with great acting by Anne Hathaway who was o...
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Original TV Stars Show @ Twin Towns

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Yesterday afternoon I went to Twin Towns to see the Original TV Stars Show which had Australian music legends Issi Dye, Tony Worsley, Denise "Ding Dong" Drysdale and Lucky Starr as I have seen them live plenty of times as I only I saw Issi back in June during Cooly Rocks On, Denise Drysdale at Cooly Rocks On 13 years ago, Lucky Starr 2 years ago at Redland Performing Arts Centre as part of the Good Old Days of Rock and Roll show and Tony Worsley also 2 years at Twin Towns. The show started at 2.30pm with George Harvey from the Four Kinsmen doing the intro which Issi Dye wearing the blue gear coming out on stage performing 3 songs starting off the Johnny Cash song Ring Of Fire, then Tony Worsley came out performing an few songs including his famous 1965 hit Velvet Waters as well as mentioning that he has re-recorded Velvet Waters as well as telling an few jokes, Issi came which he sang 2 Buddy Holly songs, then Denise Drysdale came out which she performed 3 songs including H...
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4BC October 1961

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This is from the Sunday Truth October 1st 1961 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 mid 50's as he would be there until the early 70's did the Breakfast Show which was on Monday to Saturday from 5.30am which had the Top 40 from the 4BC Chart, Telequiz, Weather Information, How's You IQ? , Time Calls, Comedy Cut and Personality Predicitions.
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