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Hard to fault that list onetrack. Patsy was just incredible, right up there with Amy Winehouse and Billie Holiday. The three best contraltos that ever lived.

There was a Melbourne group who only had a couple of successful songs, The Loved Ones, with Gerry Humphrys as lead singer. Their biggest hit, The Loved One, got to No 6, was also recorded by INXS on their Kick album. Other songs included Ever Lovin' Man and Blueberry Hill. There was also an American punk band called The Loved Ones.

I read that junior was hit in the same attack that killed hid dad and family. Has been in a coma since. Doesn’t know he is the new ayatollah.

A commentator on the radio said tonight that Junior was wounded in the early raid and that's why he hasn't been seen in public. Not badly wounded I don't think. The Israelis have said he's on the list. Another legitimate target considering he's just taken over as supreme commander of a prescribed terroist organisation (IRGC).

What's the bet Netanyahu has his spies looking for a way to take him out too.

The 60's were the best decade for rock/n/roll. Sept 1963, we heard the first Beatles song on the old AM radio - "From Me to You" (she loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah) - and before that, we were listening to Del Shannon, the Beach Boys, Col Joye and the Joye Boys, Cliff Richards and the Shadows, Johnny Tillotson - and a lot of even earlier 1950's American rock/n/roll-C&W (Sam Cooke, Chuck Berry, the Four Tops, Buddy Holly, Patsy Cline - and Elvis, of course!) Once the Beatles started hitting the airwaves, by early 1964, their songs were on the radio every day, and their new songs just kept on coming. They came to Australia in June 1964 and the teenage hysteria, especially amongst the girls, was something that stunned the older folk and brought great disapproval from them. But there was no looking back, and the rock/n/roll bands and individual singers just kept on coming, with some of the greatest rock/n/roll songs ever. The Rolling Stones appeared at the same time as the Beatles, and it was a rock/n/roll feast! I turned 17 in May 1966, and nothing brings fonder memories than roaring around in my '64 EH Holden ute, with the "big" 179 cu in engine, and playing all those great rock/n/roll songs on the radio, while we tried out our best pickup lines on girls!