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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.

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...

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...

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.

The Hollies

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An month ago I saw on Facebook that legendary Britsh rock group the Hollies will no longer be touring as guitarist Tony Hicks has got health issues as he's retires and also drummer Bobby Elliott has also decided to retire which I honestly think that's the right thing to do as the Hollies without Tony but with Bobby were to continue that would not make sense and both of them who have been with the Hollies since 1963 who had continue the band throughout the years which their last shows were in the UK 3 years ago as well as doing the cruise show and they were to due to do one next year but won't be happening now. Both Tony and Bobby had played together in the local Manchester group Ricky Shaw and the Dolphins which Bobby had played with Shane Fenton and the Fentones which had the guy who would become Alvin Stardust as well as other bands The Falcons and an jazz trio as Bobby was into jazz while Tony had played in Les Skifflettes. Tony joined the Hollies in early 1963 having...

Heart of The Beast

This afternoon I went to the Dendy Cinema Coorparoo to see the Movie Heart of The Beast. James Belmont(Brad Pitt) who is an retired Army officer along with his dog Odin an combat one flew to an Alaskan lake to camp for a few nights where he meets Watkins(J K Simmons) who was an miner which they get friendly as well as James and Odin have PTSD after experiences in the war and both James and Odin fly out but then James suffers an heart attack which the plane crashes as Odin is ejected but survives and with James walk through to get back to the road which they encounters weather and other animals including an bear. It is FANTASTIC with FANTASTIC acting by Brad Pitt who was one of the producers as well, J.K Simmons and Anna Lambe and it was directed by David Ayer as well as along with Brad Pitt one of the other producers with Olivia Hamilton, Marty Bowen, Richard Raymond and Nick Satriano. It is one of Brad Pitt's best performances and the chemistry between Brad Pitt and the dog Odin ...

Bad Reputation Joan Jett

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On May 17th 1980 American rock singer Joan Jett released her 1st solo album called Joan Jett after the break up of her band the Runaways as it was released independently but it was re-released on January 23rd 1981 on the Broadwalk Records after she signed up with them with the name change Bad Reputation which it went to number 51 in the USA, number 76 in Canada and number 45 in Australia and it had the 1 hit single Jezebel with Bad Reputation going to number 48 in the USA Mainstream Rock Airplay charts. It was produced by Kenny Laguna, Ritchie Cordell, Mark Dodson, Steve Jones and Paul Cook (2 ex members of the Sex Pistols) and it is now out on CD again. On the reissued edition it has the original tracks including her version of the Lesley Gore song You Don't Own Me, her version of the Isley Brothers song Shout and her version of the Sam The Sham and the Pharaohs 1965 hit song Wooly Bully and the bonus tracks on the CD includes her version of the Who song Call Me Lightning and th...