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This is from the Telegraph April 2nd 1954 and now the classic hits station in Brisbane 4BH was one of Brisbane's popular radio station at the time in the 1950's which among their disc jockeys was Bob Rogers who had been with the station since 1950 as he would be there until 1957 and would achieve great success on Sydney radio presented the show Platter Chatter which at 6.30pm was Disc For Debonaires, King Hits at 9pm and Sentinmental Journey at 9.30pm.

This morning I saw on Facebook an posting from Len Austin who was from the Brisbane groups Red Caps, The Dominoes, The Planets and the Sounds of Seven that Brian Gagen who played with Len in the Planets passed away yesterday which I shocked to see that. Brian Gagen was born March 7th 1942, started learning to play saxophone at age 6, played in the Rhythm Rockers which was formed in about 1956 with Nev Findlay, Lyle Glenn, Kevin Dent and His brother as they played at the Osborne Hotel in Sandgate and Brian was with the Rhythm Rockers until the winter of 1958 when he joined an rock group called the Hucklebucks who were formed the year before which had Alan Reid, Johnny Pal(Pickering), Rob Richards(Bobby Rich) and John Reid which the 4 of them including Brian were with the Hucklebucks until they left Easter 1959. Brian, Robb, Johnny, John and Rob Tonge formed the Planets which they played their very first show at the Nundah Memorial Hall Friday May 22nd 1959 and it was the start of...

This is from the Telegraph April 1st 1961 and now the classic hits station 4BH was one of Brisbane's popular radio stations at the time in the early 60's which among their disc jockeys was Bill Gates who was the one who gave the Bee Gees their name as well as doing record hops around including the O'Connor Boathouse as well as lunch time record hops at the City Hall was on the air at 9am, 4pm, 6.30pm and 7.15pm.