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How ABC Radio Sydney's James Valentine found his talkback mojo


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There’s an instant logistical problem to lunching with ABC Radio Sydney veteran James Valentine: he’s been unfamiliar with the concept for nearly 25 years, ever since he first started hosting the afternoon slot - 12.30pm to 3.30pm daily − on what was then called 2BL.
“No one’s interviewed me for years”; ABC Radio Sydney broadcaster James Valentine.
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“We used to eat lunch, before digital stations,” Valentine, 59, recalls wistfully. “When the cricket was on, we wouldn’t be required − unless it started raining in Adelaide. But now we stay on a digital station, even when the cricket’s on. I haven’t had lunch for a very long time.” ....

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Promoter took rock, pop sounds to the world


Promoter took rock, pop sounds to the world
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MICHAEL SOLOMON GUDINSKI: 1952-2021
By 1974, the yardstick for album sales by a local act in this country was the 60,00O or so achieved by the first Daddy Cool effort three years before. Nobody was presuming that it could go much higher. Apart, that is, from Michael Gudinski.
At the age of 22, this powerhouse of Russian Jewish descent, an alumni of Mt Scopus College and a former teenage dance promoter and band roadie, had established in 1970 the Consolidated Rock artist agency with Michael Browning (who would become the first AC/DC manager), the pair later founding the short-lived music magazine ....

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