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This is from the Telegraph March 3rd 1964 and now the classic hits station here in Brisbane 4BH was one of Brisbane's popular radio stations at the time in the 60's which among their disc jockeys was Jim McSweeney who worked at 4AM, 4BK, 4GR and 4AK was on Monday to Friday from 8am until 8.30am with the Modern Sounds in Country & Western Music playing country music.

This is from the Sunday Mail March 15th 1964 and until 1990 when ti became B105 4BK was one of Brisbane's popular radio stations at the time in the 60's which among their disc jockeys were Peter McIntyre who did Sunday Swingalong from 7am until 7.45am, then the Queensland Radio News at 7.45pm, Bill O'Brien did the Sunday Juke Box from 7.50am until 1.30pm which he also did the Queensland Hit Parade from 1pm until 1.30pm and from 1.30pm until 5pm Ron Burton did the Sunday Surfalong which it had Beatles records to be won and also those 3 Sunday shows had Beatles tickets contest to be won as it was the time it was annouced of the Brisbane shows on June 29th and 30th 1964.

This afternoon I went to the Cineplex Cinema at South Bank to see the movie Reminders Of Him. Kenna Rowan (Maika Monroe) is released from jail after serving 7 years for being in car crash that killed her boyfriend Scotty(Rudy Pankow) she is trying to get her life together which she is looking for work but is been turned down but eventually gets a job at the supermarket at GG and encounters Ledger(Tryiq Withers) who was the best friend of Scotty's as well as an owner of the local bar which Kenna starts to have a liking for him but he knows who she is and won't let her see her daughter Diem who has been living with her parents Patrick (Bradley Whitford) and Grace (Lauren Graham) and then things starts to get interesting. It is FANTASTIC, very impressive and very entertaining with excellent acting by Maika Monroe, Rudy Pankow, Tryiq Withers,Bradley Whitford and Lauren Graham and it is directed by Vanessa Caswill and produced by Colleen Hoover, Lauren Levine(both also did the scr...

This is from the Telegraph March 14th 1960 and now the classic hits station here in Brisbane 4BH was one of Brisbane's popular radio stations at the time in the early 60's which on the breakfast show that was on between 5am until 8am there was a segment called Battle of the Ages which had disc jockey Russ Callow and well known Australian singers who were around at the time which the next day (March 15th) iconic Australian rock singer Col Joye was on the Battle of the Ages segment and also on the same day appeared at the Record Hop at City Hall between 12pm til 2pm.

This is the memoir of Australian music executive Amanda Pelman and in this book talks about her upbringing in Melbourne, getting into music early, working for Polygram, went to London where she worked for Jaegar, went back to Australia where she worked for Mushroom Records, worked for Melodian Records, working for Michael Chugg, her 4 marriages including Brian Cadd, working with Kylie Minogue, Dire Straits, Billy Thorpe, Indecent Obession and many others. It's FANTASTIC, BRILLIANT and SUPERB with amazing stories as well as very impressive and very entertaining which it is well worth a read and Michael Chugg who is the music promoter did the Foreword for the book. Amanda is now in Paris where she's been there since 2021 and this is a must for Australian music fans which I give it 5 stars as it's in the shops now so do yourselves an favour and BUY IT which you will be impressed and amazed.

This is from the Telegraph March 11th 1982 and this was the 4BK top 40 charts with Soft Cell at number 1 with their version of the Gloria Jones song Soft Cell, Moving Pictures at number 2 with What About Me, Lindsey Buckingham at number 3 with Trouble which was from the Law and Order album and Pete Shelley at number 4 with Homosapien. The new entries in the charts that week were Hall and Oates at number 31 with I Can't Go For That (He Can Do), Mike Post at number 32 with Theme From Hill Street Blues which was from the iconic American TV show of the same name and AC/DC at number 40 with Let's Get It Up and besides from Moving Pictures and AC/DC the other Australian acts in the charts were Olivia Newton John twice with Make A Move On Me at number 14 and Physical at number 37, Men At Work at number 23 with Down Under, Cold chisel at number 25 with You Got Nothing I Want and Colleen Hewett at number 36 with Gigolo.