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Re: Countdown Flipside

This is excellent Guru Bob and thanks for putting all this research together. Wonderful bit of history now permanently preserved thanks to your work. Thanks heaps

Re: Countdown Flipside

How very brilliant indeed!!!!!!

Though Countdown Friday seemed to feature a bit more rarer material overall

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So that's what John Peters looked like? I don't think I've ever seen him before.

I was first aware of him via the Top 8 at 8, which aired in Melbourne on Triple M FM, though played very non-Triple M music in it, like New Kids on the Block, Mandy Smith, Sinitta, Neneh Cherry, Bros, Tina Arena (the first album) etc. The chart was supposedly voted for by listeners, but often had songs that didn't chart very well (or at all). They often played the 12" version of tracks, too. It was regularly the place I first heard new releases, as they often featured tracks that had just been released/had not yet been released locally. I think it's where I first heard Kylie's 'Hand On Your Heart' and 'Wouldn't Chang a Thing', for example.

I remember him back announcing Transvision Vamp as 'Transsexual Vamp' once, and asking Tina Arena if she'd let some air out of her breasts for the 'The Machine's Breaking Down' video, as the focus wasn't on them as much as in 'I Need Your Body'