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As I do music research every week at the State Lirbary every week I would like to post an advert from the Telegraph July 16th 1971 promoting Normie Rowe's show at the Easts Leagues Club July 18th 1971 on the Sunday as for many years in the 70's and 80's had Australian entertainers playing at the club and at Normie's show that weekend in JUly 1971 the support acts were Donna Black, Heritage and the Jelly Roll Big Band.

Australian singer Issi Dye will be playing shows in Queensland in August and October which he does an FANTASTIC doing great rock and roll whether it's an tribute to Johnny O"keefe as well as an Everly Brothers act with Glenn Douglas as well as an tribute to the rock and roll era and always gets the crowds entertained and singing along to the songs walking through the audience and shaking hands. If you have not seen Issi live please dop yourselves an favour and SEE HIM which you would love it and be impressed and entertained by an Australian legend. Queensland Dates- Twin Towns August 17th Geebung August 18th Beenleigh October 6th Skypoint Q1 Gold Coast October 8th Geenmount Surf Club October 9th.

On Sunday September 11th the Australian Buddy Holly Show that has Chris Knight backed up by Gail Kelle and Bill Hillman will be performing at the Wynnum Bowls Club which will be starting at 2pm and it costs 25 dollars. He does the Buddy Holly classics as well as rock and roll classics and gets everybody entertained which you will be impressed and entertained. If you would like to see the show do yourselves an favour and SEE IT which you will be entertained with great rock and roll music and you will have a great time.

Just last weekend I saw on Facebook about the sad passing of Australian singer Frankie Davidson aged 88 which was very sad to hear that. He was one of the first Australian singers to record rock and roll which he did an EP with Max Bostock and His Rockets on the Danceland label called Rock and Roll With Frank Davidson and recorded for the W&G label from 1959-64 which included I Care For You(NO 56 Australia, number 33 Melbourne and 31 Perth 1960), Just For Today (number 56 Australia number 33 Melbourne in 1961), Yabba Dabba Doo (number 42 Australia number 14 Adelaide number 33 Melbourne and number 16 Perth 1961), Have You Ever Been To See Kings Cross(no 8 Australia and number 6 Brisbane 1962 which Colin Cook played sax on it) and many others. Did appearances on TV shows like IMT(In Melbourne Tonight), the Hi FI Club on Channel 9 hosted by Bert Newton, Bandstand hosted by Brian Henderson and many others. He also recorded for the Sunshine Label, Fable, M7, HMV, Rehubarb, Brook and...

This is the autobiography of British musician and founding member of the legendary British rock band The Kinks Dave Davies and in this book he talks about his upbringing in Muswell hill in London, the loss of sister Rene in 1957, playing with his brother Ray at the The Clissod Arms, playing in the Band the Ramrods and the Ravens before becoming the Kinks, achieving great success in the 60's and 70's with hits including You Really Got Me, All Day and All of The Night, Tired of Waiting For You, Sunny Afternoon, Waterloo Sunset, Lola as well as having the solo hits Death Of A Clown and Susannah's Still Alive, having same sex relationships, his relationship with his brother and Kinks member Ray, encounters with Jimi Hendrix, The Beatles, Chrissie Hynde, Brian Jones, Graham Nash and many others, his stroke in 2004 and many others. It is FANTASTIC, BRILLIANT and SUPERB with AWESOME and FANTASTIC stories as well as very impressive and very entertaining which it is well worth an...

This afternoon I went to the movies at South Bank Cinema where I saw the movie Where The Crawdads Sing. Catherine "Kya" Clark (Daisy Edgar Jones) who has been living in an North Carolina marsh since the 1950's as she grew up with an abusive father who also drank and gamble their money away and one by one her mother and siblings leave due to his abuse which she is alone with him for a while longer until he too leaves her which she is on her own and is friendly with her brother Joey's friend Tate (Taylor John Smith) which he teaches her to read and write as well as lending her books as well as going to romantic relationship but it ends as Tate goes to college and had promised to see on July 4th but didn't happend. Kya starts drawing things as well as her knowledge of biology and she sends her drawings of nature to a publishing company which leads to having her book published. She then meets Chase Andrews (Harris Dickinson) who is an quarter back and gets rom...

On Sunday I went to the Dendy Cinema Coorparoo to see the movie The Phantom Of The Open. Maurice Flitcroft (Mark Rylance) who works in an shipyard and is married to Jean (Sally Hawkins) and has 3 sons enters the British Open Golf for 1976 after watching an golf game on TV which he has no experience with golf and never played and has support by family and friends. He plays in the qualifying round which he shoots a score of 121 which it's the worst score in the history of the Open which he gains media attention. He is then barred from future British Open tournaments and other golf clubs and then it gets interesting. It is FANTASTIC, Very Funny and Very entertaning with FANTASTIC and BRILLIANT acting by Mark Rylance and Sally Hawkins as well as Rhys Ifans and Mark Lewis and it's directed by Craig Roberts and produced by Tom Miller, Nichola Martin and Kate Glover. This is another great biographical movie so far this year with Elvis and this movie is well worth seeing with gre...

This is the autobiography of drummer and member of the American rock band Hootie and the Blowfish Jim Sonefeld and in this book he talks about his upbringing in Michigan, Virginia and Illinois, got his first drum at age 13, playing soccer, played in Bands Bachelors Of Art, Tootie and the Jones and Calvin and Friends, joining Hootie and the Blowfish in 1989, achieving success with the album Cracker Rear View in 1994 with hit singles Hold My Heart, Let Her Cry, Time and Only Wanna Be With You, his issues with drugs and alcohol which he became sober in 2004, becoming an Christian, his 2 marriages, encounters with David Crosby, Bill Clinton, Toad The Wet Sprocket, John Mellencamp, Willie Nelson, Neil Young, Don Was and many others. It is FANTASTIC, BRILLIANT and SUPERB with AWESOME stories as well as impressive and very entertaining and it is an great read which it is worth reading. Jim has an new EP coming on Friday called Remember Tomorrow and Hootie and the Blowfish will be performin...

last Friday June 24th I went to the Events Cinema in the city to see the movie Elvis. Elvis Presley (Austin) Butler who lives in Memphis Tennessee but originally came from Tupelo Mississippi had grown up poor and finds music as an salvation which he is into the gospel as well as the black rhythm and blues music and is hanging around Beale Street in Memphis which the African American music being played as well as getting friendly with people like BB King (Kelvin Harrison Jr) and is getting played on the radio when an carinval Huckster and manager for country singer Hank Snow (David Wenham) named Colonel Tom Parker(Tom Hanks) who seems to be impressed with his performance and meet up which he offers Elvis to be his manager which he achieves great success with hit singles and getting girls screaming as well as there is people not liking him particuarly by the parents and older generation and then goes into the army as well as losing his mother Gladys(Helen Thomson) and meeting...

2 weeks ago on Saturday June 18th I went to the Dendy Cinema Coorparoo to see the Top Gun Maverick which it's the sequel to the 1986 movie. Captain Pete "Maverick" Mitchell (Tom Crusie) who is serving as an test pilot in the US Navy has been ordered to train an group of young aviators for an mission which is to bomb an foreign country's unsanctioned uranium enrichment plant which Maverick is reluctant to do it and among the aviators is Lt Bradley "Rooster" Bradshaw (Miles Teller) whose father Nick was Maverick's best friend who has issues with him and Maverick reunites with his old girlfriend Penney(Jennifer Connolly) as well as meeting up with old friend Adrimal Tom 'Iceman" Kransky (Val Kilmer ) who has cancer and they are training for the mission which gets interesting. It's ACTIONED PACKED , BRILLIANT and SUPERB with FANTASTIC and BRILLIANT acting by Tom Crusie, Miles Teller, Jennifer Connelly, Val Kilmer, John Hamm, Ed Harris, Monic...