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MILESTONES AND MEMORIES
Fifty years ago this week, John Farnham announced he had split with his manager of nine years, Darryl Sambell.
Also 50 years ago this week, AC/DC’s It’s A Long Way To The Top (If You Wanna Rock ’n’ Roll) and Max Merritt’s Slipping Away entered the Top 40.
The first big international rock ’n’ roll tour hit Australia this week in 1957. The “Big Show” featured Bill Haley and His Comets, The Platters, LaVern Baker, Big Joe Turner and Freddie Bell and the Bell Boys. The tour’s first show was at the Newcastle Stadium.
This week in 2013, Doc Neeson revealed he had a brain tumour. The Angels’ March tour was cancelled.
Happy Birthday to Athol Guy who is 86 on January 5. And Megan Washington is 40 on January 7.
And we remember Dragon’s Paul Hewson, who died of an accidental drug overdose this week in 1985. And Mi-Sex singer Steve Gilpin, who died, aged 42, this week in 1992. He’d been in a coma for six weeks after a car accident near Byron Bay.
CHART WATCH
The first chart for 2026 features one Australian single.
Dracula TAME IMPALA (number 37)
And Tame Impala also lead the Aussie acts on the albums chart.
Deadbeat TAME IMPALA (number 18)
Everyone’s A Star! 5 SECONDS OF SUMMER (28)
Hickey ROYEL OTIS (29)
I Love My Computer NINAJIRACHI (36)
Fall From The Light HILLTOP HOODS (39)
HOWZAT! PLAYLIST
Unfamiliar Ground STEPHEN CUMMINGS
Stay Forever WALIENS
Here We Go Again LIV CARTLEDGE
You See In Me CORDRAZINE
Do Ya Feel It ICECREAM HANDS
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