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Graeme Strachan

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Graeme Ronald Strachan (2 January 195229 August 2001), professionally billed and known as "Shirley" Strachan or Shirl, was an Australian singer, songwriter, radio and television presenter, and carpenter. [1]

67 relations: Allen & Unwin, ARIA Charts, ARIA Hall of Fame, ARIA Music Awards of 1993, Armstrong Studios, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Australian Recording Industry Association, Australian Rock Database, Bell 47, Bob Spencer, Brenda Holloway, Catch Us If You Can (game show), Daryl Braithwaite, Ed Nimmervoll, Encyclopedia of Australian Rock and Pop, Every Little Bit Hurts, Fairfax Media, Festival Records, Gary Belcher, Glam rock, Graham Bidstrup, Hawthorn Football Club, Helicopter, Ian McFarlane, Kashmir (song), Kent Music Report, Kevin Borich, Logie Awards of 1983, Long Way to the Top, Malvern, Victoria, Mount Archer, Queensland (Somerset Region), Mount Waverley Secondary College, Mount Waverley, Victoria, Mushroom Records, National Library of Australia, Nine Network, No Song Too Sacred, Our House (Australian TV series), Paul Christie (musician), Pop music, Progressive rock, Queensland, Red Symons, Ric Formosa, Rock and roll, Rose Tattoo, Ross Wilson (musician), Shirl's Neighbourhood, Shirley Temple, Singing, ..., Skyhooks (band), Songwriter, St Ives, New South Wales, St Leonards, New South Wales, Tambourine, The Australian, The Australian Women's Weekly, The Canberra Times, The Captain Matchbox Whoopee Band, The Miracles, The Party Boys, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Tracks of My Tears, Uriah Heep, Victorian Football League, Yahoo7, 4MMM. Expand index (17 more) »

Allen & Unwin

Allen & Unwin is an Australian independent publishing company, established in Australia in 1976 as a subsidiary of the British firm George Allen & Unwin Ltd., which was founded by Sir Stanley Unwin in August 1914 and went on to become one of the leading publishers of the twentieth century.

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ARIA Charts

The ARIA Charts are the main Australian music sales charts, issued weekly by the Australian Recording Industry Association.

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ARIA Hall of Fame

Since 1988 the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) has inducted artists into its annual ARIA Hall of Fame.

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ARIA Music Awards of 1993

The Seventh Australian Recording Industry Association Music Awards (generally known as the ARIA Music Awards or simply The ARIAS) was held on 14 April 1993 at the Entertainment Centre in Sydney.

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Armstrong Studios

Armstrong Studios, also known as Bill Armstrong's Studio and later renamed AAV (Armstrong Audio Video), is an Australian commercial recording studio located in Melbourne, Victoria.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) founded in 1929 is Australia's national broadcaster, funded by the Australian Federal Government but specifically independent of Government and politics in the Commonwealth.

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Australian Recording Industry Association

The Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) is a trade group representing the Australian recording industry which was established in 1983 by six major record companies, EMI, Festival, CBS, RCA, WEA and Universal replacing the Association of Australian Record Manufacturers (AARM) which was formed in 1956.

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Australian Rock Database

The Australian Rock Database was a website with a searchable online database that listed details of Australian rock music artists, albums, bands, producers and record labels.

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Bell 47

The Bell 47 is a single rotor single engine light helicopter manufactured by Bell Helicopter.

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Bob Spencer

Bob Spencer (born 5 September 1957) is a guitarist who was in two significant Australian rock bands in the 1970s and 1980s, Skyhooks and The Angels.

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Brenda Holloway

Brenda Holloway (born June 21, 1946) is an American singer and songwriter, who was a recording artist for Motown Records during the 1960s.

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Catch Us If You Can (game show)

Catch Us If You Can is an Australian game and prank television series which ran for 30 episodes on the Seven Network in 1981.

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Daryl Braithwaite

Daryl Braithwaite (born 11 January 1949) is an Australian singer.

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Ed Nimmervoll

Edward Charles "Ed" Nimmervoll (21 September 1947 – 10 October 2014) was a prominent Australian music journalist, author and historian.

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Encyclopedia of Australian Rock and Pop

The Encyclopedia of Australian Rock and Pop or Rock and Pop by Australian music journalist Ian McFarlane is a guide to Australian popular music from the 1950s to the late 1990s.

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Every Little Bit Hurts

"Every Little Bit Hurts" was originally a 1964 hit single for Motown soul singer Brenda Holloway, written by Ed Cobb.

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Fairfax Media

Fairfax Media Limited (formerly John Fairfax and Sons) is one of the largest media companies in Australia and New Zealand, with investments in newspaper, magazines, radio and digital properties.

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Festival Records

Festival Records (later known as Festival Mushroom Records) was an Australian recording and publishing company founded in Sydney in 1952 and operated until 2005.

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Gary Belcher

Gary Belcher (born 28 May 1962) is an Australian rugby league football commentator and former player.

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Glam rock

Glam rock is a style of rock that developed in the United Kingdom in the early 1970s performed by musicians who wore outrageous costumes, makeup, and hairstyles, particularly platform shoes and glitter.

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Graham Bidstrup

Graham "Buzz" Bidstrup is an Australian musician, songwriter, music producer and artist manager.

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Hawthorn Football Club

The Hawthorn Football Club, nicknamed the Hawks, is a professional Australian rules football club in the Australian Football League (AFL).

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Helicopter

A helicopter is a type of rotorcraft in which lift and thrust are supplied by rotors.

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Ian McFarlane

Ian McFarlane (born 1959) is an Australian music journalist, music historian and author, whose best known publication is the Encyclopedia of Australian Rock and Pop (1999).

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Kashmir (song)

"Kashmir" is a song by the English rock band Led Zeppelin.

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Kent Music Report

The Kent Music Report was a weekly record chart of Australian music singles and albums which was compiled by music enthusiast David Kent from May 1974 through to 1988.

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Kevin Borich

Kevin Nicholas Borich (born 27 October 1948, Huapai, North Island, New Zealand) is a New Zealand-born Australian guitarist and singer-songwriter.

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Logie Awards of 1983

The 25th Annual TV Week Logie Awards was held on Friday 22 April 1983 at the Wentworth Regent Hotel in Melbourne, and broadcast on Network Ten.

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Long Way to the Top

Long Way to the Top was a six-part weekly Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) documentary film series on the history of Australian rock and roll, from 1956 to the modern era, it was initially broadcast from 8 August to 12 September 2001.

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Malvern, Victoria

Malvern (/ˈmɔːlvən/) is an inner suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 8 km south-east of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Stonnington local government area.

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Mount Archer, Queensland (Somerset Region)

Mount Archer is a mountain and locality in the Somerset Region of Queensland, Australia.

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Mount Waverley Secondary College

Mount Waverley Secondary College is a public secondary school located in the Melbourne suburb of Mount Waverley.

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Mount Waverley, Victoria

Mount Waverley is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 16 km south-east of Melbourne's central business district.

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Mushroom Records

Mushroom Records was an Australian flagship record label, founded in 1972 in Melbourne.

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National Library of Australia

The National Library of Australia is the largest reference library in Australia, responsible under the terms of the National Library Act for "maintaining and developing a national collection of library material, including a comprehensive collection of library material relating to Australia and the Australian people." In 2012–13, the National Library collection comprised 6,496,772 items, and an additional of manuscript material.

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Nine Network

The Nine Network (commonly known as Channel Nine or simply Nine) is a major Australian commercial free-to-air television network, that is a division of Nine Entertainment Co. with headquarters in Willoughby, a suburb located on the North Shore of Sydney, Australia.

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No Song Too Sacred

No Song Too Sacred is the third album by Australian rock band The Party Boys.

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Our House (Australian TV series)

Our House is an Australian lifestyle and home renovation factual television series aired on Nine Network from 1993 until 2001.

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Paul Christie (musician)

Paul Adrian Christie (born 1953 in Brisbane) is an Australian rock music bassist and vocalist.

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Pop music

Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form in the United States and United Kingdom during the mid-1950s.

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Progressive rock

Progressive rock (shortened as prog; sometimes called art rock, classical rock or symphonic rock) is a broad genre of rock music that developed in the United Kingdom and United States throughout the mid to late 1960s.

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Queensland

Queensland (abbreviated as Qld) is the second-largest and third-most populous state in the Commonwealth of Australia.

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Red Symons

Redmond 'Red' Symons (born 13 June 1949) is an English-born Australian musician, and television and radio personality.

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Ric Formosa

Riccardo "Ric" Formosa (born 1 September 1954) is an Italian-born Australian musician and composer.

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Rock and roll

Rock and roll (often written as rock & roll or rock 'n' roll) is a genre of popular music that originated and evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950sJim Dawson and Steve Propes, What Was the First Rock'n'Roll Record (1992),.

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Rose Tattoo

Rose Tattoo is an Australian rock and roll band, now led by Angry Anderson, that was formed in Sydney in 1976.

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Ross Wilson (musician)

Ross Andrew Wilson (born 18 November 1947) is an Australian singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer.

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Shirl's Neighbourhood

Shirl's Neighbourhood was an Australian afternoon children's television series aired on the Seven Network between 1979 and 1983.

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Shirley Temple

Shirley Temple BlackWhile Temple occasionally used "Jane" as a middle name, her birth certificate reads "Shirley Temple".

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Singing

Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice and augments regular speech by the use of sustained tonality, rhythm, and a variety of vocal techniques.

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Skyhooks (band)

Skyhooks were an Australian rock band formed in Melbourne in March 1973 by mainstays Greg Macainsh on bass guitar and backing vocals, and Imants "Freddie" Strauks on drums.

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Songwriter

A songwriter is a professional who is paid to write lyrics for singers and melodies for songs, typically for a popular music genre such as rock or country music.

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St Ives, New South Wales

St Ives is a suburb on the Upper North Shore of Sydney in the state of New South Wales, Australia 18 kilometres north of the Sydney Central Business District in the local government area of Ku-ring-gai Council.

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St Leonards, New South Wales

St Leonards is a suburb on the lower North Shore of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia.

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Tambourine

The tambourine is a musical instrument in the percussion family consisting of a frame, often of wood or plastic, with pairs of small metal jingles, called "zils".

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The Australian

The Australian is a broadsheet newspaper published in Australia from Monday to Saturday each week since 14 July 1964.

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The Australian Women's Weekly

The Australian Women's Weekly, sometimes known as simply The Weekly, is an Australian monthly women's magazine published by Bauer Media Group in Sydney.

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The Canberra Times

The Canberra Times is a daily newspaper, published by Fairfax Media in Canberra.

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The Captain Matchbox Whoopee Band

The Captain Matchbox Whoopee Band, also known as Soapbox Circus or Matchbox, were an Australian jug band formed in 1969.

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The Miracles

The Miracles (also known as Smokey Robinson and the Miracles from 1965 to 1972) were an American rhythm and blues vocal group that was the first successful recording act for Berry Gordy's Motown Records, and one of the most important and influential groups in pop, rock and roll, and R&B music history.

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The Party Boys

The Party Boys are an Australian rock supergroup with a floating membership commencing in 1982.

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The Sydney Morning Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) is a daily compact newspaper published by Fairfax Media in Sydney, Australia.

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The Tracks of My Tears

"The Tracks of My Tears" is a song written by Smokey Robinson, Pete Moore, and Marv Tarplin.

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Uriah Heep

Uriah Heep is a fictional character created by Charles Dickens in his novel David Copperfield.

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Victorian Football League

The Victorian Football League (VFL) is the major state-level Australian rules football league in Victoria.

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Yahoo7

Yahoo7 (originally Yahoo!7 until late-2014) is a 50-50 partnership between global internet company, Yahoo! and Australian entertainment and television broadcasting company, Seven West Media.

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4MMM

4MMM (identified on air and in print as Triple M) a commercial FM rock radio station in Brisbane, Australia.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graeme_Strachan

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