tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-63653421584988464802024-03-18T21:55:09.805-07:00The Go-Set BlogDavid M. Kenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08318092902568434320noreply@blogger.comBlogger54125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6365342158498846480.post-66448019452664814822012-07-29T23:51:00.000-07:002012-07-29T23:51:12.897-07:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Hooray for Slade. By 1973, Slade were the all conquering heroes of poppy rock, or glam rock as it would become known. Historically Slade had gone from punk rock to glam rock. As a punk-like in the early 70s, or bovvers (maybe) they hadn't really made a lot of impact. Their early songs were growing in style, however, the glamming of Dave, and the excesses of Noddy's efforts to get audience participation fell on yet to be enthusiastic audiences.<br />
Interestingly in 1973 Slade toured Australia with Lindisfarne, and a still largely to be discovered Status Quo.<br />
In this issue of Go-Set the dates of the tour had not been set, but Go-Set announced they were coming. The article is almost a history piece on the band. Slade were one of the most successful rock acts England was to produce. Yet in America they made little impact. <br />
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In 1973 Ed Nimmervoll had been made principle editor of Go-Set by the new owners. Phillip Frazer was no more in charge, and the new owners had imposed a limited budget on the looks of Go-Set. The effects were a less diverse paper in terms of looks. The content was now more obviously sourced from UK pop newspapers, and the size of the Go-Set staff was reduced.<br />
Ed Nimmervoll asked the industry to look at itself with this editorial. It was obvious to him that there was much to be corrected in the way the Australian rock music industry worked.<br />
He picks on two specific areas, the "hustlers" who have taken advantage of the musicians and who "ripped them off, degrading the,, controlling them", meaning the musicians, and that these "artists" have been "satisfied with the hollow promises of the hustler They put up with lousy conditions and equipment."<br />
Ed Nimmervoll ten goes to savage the record companies who "don't help the acts in the slightest and the acts don't help the record companies AT ALL."<br />
Then Ed gibes it to the radio stations though the lines that "what's crippling this industry most of all is the radio, with its singlew rock network, turning down records left and right, having the scene wide open to one set of radio programmers pointing the scene wherever they see fit, to whoever gets closest to them"<br />
The finger points at the issue of perhaps corruption, but does not actually say it.<br />
Finally, Ed appears to be frustrated by the whole thing, "It's becoming increasingly difficult to feel patriotic, no matter how worthwhile we might think our local performers are."<br />
Go-Set's charter was to make the issues of musicians and its readers known. The be an iconoclast on the Australian scene, and this editorial makes it clear that Go-Set doesn't like it.<br />
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The growing success of Brian Cadd in the USA was being made public by Go-Set. Yet Go-Set is pre-empting a position to its readership. Go-Set would always crow about Australian success, no matter how big or small. <br />
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This looks like an interesting place. Who remembers Teaser? Will someone please tell me!!!<br />
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Times have changed. Would an album like King Crimson's Earthbound, today be chosen by anyone as an album of the week. Contextually, it should be noted that this is actually an advertisement.<br />
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Ian Meldrum also survived as the co editor of Go-Set, although according to Ed Nimmervoll, Ian didn't do very much. By now the "campness" that was Meldrum at the time is quite obvious, and had been for quite some time. It's interesting to read this as the phrasing sounds like Molly on Humdrum, or on Hey Hey It's Saturday. Molly (Meldrum) continues the industry buzz at the time, following on from Melody Maker and NME that Bowie was quitting. However, the truth was more that Bowie was Ziggy Stardust, not that he was giving up show business. It would interesting to know whether Meldrum did have the inside gossip on Bowie at that time, or whether he really believed that Bowie was quitting for good.. <br />
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The top40 chart for this week has the highest Australian song as being Col Joye at 5, with "Heaven Is My Woman's Love", and Barry Crocker at 7 with "Suzie Darling".<br />
The songs on this singles chart seem surprisingly soft, in terms of the lack of twangy guitar songs.<br />
Relatively speaking, the albums chart is way more progressive with Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Rick Wakeman, Yes, and Focus in the top 20.<br />
One might say, "what a strange time it was"!!!<br />
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Just for interest, here's the albums reviewed this week!!!David M. Kenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08318092902568434320noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6365342158498846480.post-81991101952427282472012-07-25T23:22:00.001-07:002012-07-25T23:22:41.475-07:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This is the cover page from the July 26, 1967 issue of Go-Set. The issue contained a wide variety of information and topics and even ventured into the ethics of sexual relations.<br />
However the cover made the announcement that the Groop had won the Battle of the Sounds competition.<br />
The other mention of note is that Johnny Young was still in England, and would never return???<br />
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Top 40 charts always afford great interest.<br />
The first Australian song in the charts is at number 14, Easybeats: Heaven and Hell; followed at 15 by the Twilights: Young Girl; and then at 16 by Normie Rowe with But I Know.<br />
The top 5 songs show the diversity of the music of the period with Procol Harum - Whiter Shade of Pale at 1; Scott Mackenzie with San Francisco at 2; Silence is Golden by the Tremeloes at 3; Waterloo Sunset by the Kinks at 4; and finally Petula Clark at 5 with This Is My Song; At 40 is the Groop with Woman You're Breaking Me. The highest debut is by the Beatles with All You Need Is Love which debuted at 9 on the chart.<br />
There's probably a great deal to be said about this chart that is interestingly so representative of the hippy period and the beginnings of Haight Ashbury and also the slowly developing soul music which took a while to get going in Australia, except for the bigger hits and Max Merritt's interpretations. But Australian pop at this time was just beginning to mature, thanks to the help of Go-Set.<br />
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Go-Set really got around. Capturing pictures from a dance at Laverton Airforce base. Denise Drysdale, Penthouse girls dancing, and a heap of bands made a wild night, by 1967 standards. More pictures to come<br />
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Go-Set catered for the needs of its readers, so a soap ad was not out of place. Brand placement of Dorothy Gray, on one of the social pages was about educating the masses.<br />
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The questioner, Michelle, lays the groundwork for Lloyd to put forward an argument as to how values were changing. This background comes against a moral set where the older generation was still coming to grips with the mini skirt, and the recent introduction of "the pill". So sex for pleasure, with the limited chance of pregnancy become a talking point for the generation. The question itself related to under age sex brought about by the needs of the poorest members of society!!!<br />
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Finally, more advertising, or advertorial. A Taste of Honey is some quite specific product placement in the form of an article. Place in the "You" section of the issue, it is part of the fashion section of the issue, and was aimed at both at making Go-Set the lead fashion magazine and to provide advertisers with a way into the minds of the readers.David M. Kenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08318092902568434320noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6365342158498846480.post-32555951282477879072011-11-01T21:10:00.000-07:002011-11-01T23:39:41.680-07:00Scene The Seen: 1 March 1967, Who are they and where are they now?<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The dresses are generally simple, perhaps the woman in the white sleeveless dress looks a bit more flash, but notice the floral patterns!! Notice that in some cases, girls are dancing with girls!! Which band was playing at the time? Also, was the Sydney Bowl a popular spot? Go-Set photographers visited a large number of venues over the years, this was one!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The girl with the cigarette seems quite happy!! Is she looking at the cameraman, or just to his side? Where was Long Johns, and how popular was it? Finally, who were they dancing to?</td></tr>
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</tbody></table>Three views from the Scene The Seen in March of 1967. The first two pictures show the fashion in Sydney in March 1967, the third picture shows a group, who went onto where? The answers are most probably on line somewhere, maybe on Milesago?? Who took the photographs, Colin Beard took the Melbourne pics, and Grant Mudford took the Sydney pics.<br />
Just had a quick look, and no Two By 2 on Mileago. So who knows anything about them. Notice the way the guitarist plays his guitar. Typical of the period, following the style of the old blues players. So what kind og music did they play, and they played at the Rendezvous in Mitcham, in Melbourne Victoria.<br />
Who can help with this one? Also does anyone recognise the dancers in the top 2 pictures? If you do, who were they, and what are they doing today?David M. Kenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08318092902568434320noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6365342158498846480.post-66242142182700697812011-10-31T20:49:00.000-07:002011-10-31T20:49:21.078-07:00Ronnie Charles Goes to London<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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</tbody></table>Ronnie Charles was best known to audiences in the late sixties as the lead singer of the Groop.<br />
Ronnie's move to England follows the fact that he made good contacts when the Groop had won Hoadley's Battle of the Sounds, and had learnt a bit more about the London music scene.<br />
During my thesis Ronnie had been very helpful on background to Molly Meldrum, and the changes in his personality as a result of going to London, and of the way that Go-Set worked in the early days of 1966.<br />
I will write more about Ronnie Charles once I find my interviews with him.David M. Kenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08318092902568434320noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6365342158498846480.post-35818137400152937932011-10-31T19:08:00.000-07:002011-10-31T19:08:35.056-07:00Australian Charts 25 December 1971<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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</tbody></table>Ed Nimmervoll was quite thorough, at this time in his presentation of the state of the information in the. The charts page which was nearly always full of charts now included both the US and UK singles charts, at least a top 10 of both. Included too, was the album chart top 20, and on the side and shown above is two views of the Australian singles charts.<br />
At the top of the column is the actual Australian content of the National top 40 chart, which in some cases shows Australian content that was too low on the National top 40 chart to actually make it. So we see for example that Sherbet is at number 12 (National top40 (NTF) at 43) with Free The People, and perhaps on its way out. Billy Thorpe is at 16 (NTF69) with The Dawn Song, and the lowest Australian song is by Allison Gros at 20 (NTF88).<br />
The broader implication is at the end of 1971, only 11 Australian artist songs were in the National Top 40. Quite good considering that Number 1 was Rod Stewart's Maggie May.<br />
An interesting omission from the Australian Top20 is Olivia Newton-John, whose "Banks of the Ohio" is located at Number 2. Australia was proud to have Olivia back as an Australian when she saw fit to return, yet her omission as an Australian artist, begs a question or two!!<br />
Ricky Springfield is included on the Australian Top20 with "Speak To the Sky" (NTF8). Mind you Ricky had not been long in the United States. <br />
Could it be that Australian artists resident overseas for a certain period were denied entry on the Australian Top20? <br />
Another interesting omission is The Mixtures, on the NTF and debuting at 31 with Captain Zero; and lastly Barry Crocker sits at NTF39 with "Love Is A Beautiful Song". Neither of these are included on the Australian Top20.<br />
Perhaps they were missed, or maybe there is another reason. Ed Nimmervoll must be applauded for his means of highlighting the singles of groups SCRA, Healing Force, Flake and Freshwater. Songs that were powerful enough to make national sales, yet not strong enough to make the national top 40.<br />
In future posts I will examine the charts in more detail.David M. Kenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08318092902568434320noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6365342158498846480.post-89299673167389349432011-10-31T14:50:00.000-07:002011-10-31T14:50:14.062-07:00The Last Keyhole News from Ian Meldrum<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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</tbody></table>This is a tiny part of the Keyhole news from the second last edition of Go-Set. Meldrum had a whole page of material that was published. Not that it says very much, except that it says more of the same about what is happening that week.<br />
His work has been described as a 'stream of consciousness" by some, and in my thesis I determined that in some respects, Meldrum's contributions gave no intrinsic value to the magazine, except that they provided readers with an insiders view on their stars doings.<br />
By this time, the only two contributors left from Go-Set's main years were Phillip Morris, who contributed the "Scene" photographs, and Ian Meldrum who wrote the gossip column. By this time Mitch had left, and Ed Nimmervoll had decided to stay in Melbourne, rather than go to Sydney, where the magazine was to be edited.<br />
The last issue was the one after this, dated 25 August 1974. There was no Keyhole News. The issue would be made up from items drawn from other magazines from the IPC stable.<br />
Like the Beatles last released album "Let It Be", the last Go-Set was a sad reflection of what it had been. The spark was finally gone!!<br />
Next posting will go back to a more happy period!!David M. Kenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08318092902568434320noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6365342158498846480.post-51710661839420951502011-09-12T17:15:00.000-07:002011-09-12T17:15:52.082-07:00Melbourne and Sydney Edition Difference 2<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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</tbody></table>Relatively speaking, Go-Set was consistent between its Melbourne and Sydney editions. However, in this issue the gig guide is placed one page apart in the two editions.<br />
Another issue of significance in the Sydney page is that some venues have multiple locations.<br />
With the Melbourne page, although the heading of the column is the tradition "Know Where", it is part of a larger page called "Go-Set Disco Guide". Whether this is a reflection of the audience expectation or is a standard set by Go-Set management is unknown at this time. I will have to go back and look at when the page heading was first used. The more common use of the word "disco" is more generally association with middle to late 1970s.David M. Kenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08318092902568434320noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6365342158498846480.post-85286241064996756902011-09-12T04:46:00.000-07:002011-09-12T04:50:30.565-07:00Images from The Scene-The Seen - 9 February 1966<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Colin Cook photo by Colin Beard (probably?) The pictures from the Tom Jones concert were a first for Colin Beard in terms of getting backstage to meet big celebrities. This would be one of the strengths of Go-Set's position.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The mispelt Twilighters, however notice Glenn Shorrock. The apology was made the week after, and I have referred to it in an earlier post.</td></tr>
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David M. Kenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08318092902568434320noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6365342158498846480.post-84047610202453045482011-09-02T15:13:00.000-07:002011-09-04T23:10:16.708-07:00Subscription - If you don't, then you may miss out?<br />
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Two notes about the wording. The first is that the promotion states that Go-Set is the ONLY teen and twenties newspaper, and the subscription price although unclear from this image is actually quotes as 70 shillings. It will be interesting to note when they actually change over the subscription amount to dollars and cents. A mix here of old and new currencies. On a side note, it was always a surprise to the editors and founders that Go-Set was a success. Apparently, Peter Raphael, who I will look at in more detail in a future posting, only believed that Go-Set would last 3 issues, as told by Colin Beard. He was quite wrong!!!<br />
On a personal note, I was just over 9 when dollars and cents came in on the 14 February 1966. I remember, it taking a long time for people to come to terms with the new currency. Go-Set editor's in this sense, were no different to everyone else, although, interestingly the price listed on the cover is in cents. David M. Kenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08318092902568434320noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6365342158498846480.post-66818795439696780702011-09-01T17:24:00.000-07:002011-09-01T17:24:21.160-07:00MPD Limited, Richard Wright and Keith Barber at the Thumpin Tum<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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David M. Kenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08318092902568434320noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6365342158498846480.post-647094201243774612011-09-01T16:26:00.000-07:002011-09-01T16:37:28.858-07:00MPD Limited (Band featured 9 February 1966)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgp0F6FDE25j8VhqANvd-2XTXL3Q0rZLqjM4MVPoNyMrB-VmMnUjNbwK-j-AxDRlHLGyxqfbjD0dc_VPlJVlXzlnahh6kMYoTPcpFHITUJMg6qxe-9h3_GI27EwK5qZPf64fQr1RLSGAFpl/s1600/660209+12-13+mpd+limited+heading.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="47" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgp0F6FDE25j8VhqANvd-2XTXL3Q0rZLqjM4MVPoNyMrB-VmMnUjNbwK-j-AxDRlHLGyxqfbjD0dc_VPlJVlXzlnahh6kMYoTPcpFHITUJMg6qxe-9h3_GI27EwK5qZPf64fQr1RLSGAFpl/s320/660209+12-13+mpd+limited+heading.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>David M. Kenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08318092902568434320noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6365342158498846480.post-41046977302819048832011-08-30T19:03:00.000-07:002011-08-30T21:58:28.716-07:00Leslie Pixie<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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</tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>One question that must be asked about magazines that are aimed at a female teenage audience is what makes them want to write, then what sustains the interest and the need to return to the column.<br />
Leslie Pixie, or "Dear Leslie Pixie" was Go-Set's attempt at producing a section where teenage angst and questions about relationships could be put to someone who could answer their questions and solve their problems.<br />
Leslie Pixie was obviously not her real name, aesthetically it is a cute name, appealing to young girl teens, and write they did. The growing success of Leslie Pixie may have been because teenagers in Melbourne at the time had no one else to write to, or did they?<br />
I will examine the content of these letters, and examines the themes and approaches taken by Leslie Pixie in satisfying the relationship information needed by the magazines audience. You will see that there are themes, philosophies and approaches to the way in which the questions are answered.<br />
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Another aspect of this particular part of the magazine must be viewed in the context of the editors. It must be remembered that the editors of Go-Set had, within the last 6 months been writing for a strongly left university paper that held strong political views of the world. The context of the popular social psychologist solving the problems of teens is far from their previous experience.<br />
Research indicates that we must find out who originated the idea!!David M. Kenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08318092902568434320noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6365342158498846480.post-36651261052839665002011-08-29T07:12:00.000-07:002011-08-29T07:12:13.628-07:00Prue Acton's Fashion<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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</tbody></table>For a magazine to have a successful fashion outlook, it would probably be essential to have a big name fashion maker within the pages. Go-Set had Prue Acton.<br />
When I was researching the thesis I managed to get an interview with Prue, as she lived in a nearby region and was coming into Canberra for a function and agreed to allow me to interview her.<br />
I was quite surprised when she said that she was not aware that Go-Set had a column that featured her fashion, she was quite surprised by the pages I showed her.<br />
In fact she said that she thought it was the work of one her assistants.<br />
From the perspective of the Go-Set reader, it is highly likely that they were unaware of the actuality of the situation. I am not sure the Go-Set editors had any knowledge of the position!!<br />
This area is certainly worth more research, so who knows what the research will find out!?David M. Kenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08318092902568434320noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6365342158498846480.post-36334226523592414122011-08-27T07:40:00.000-07:002011-08-28T16:22:53.629-07:00Molly Meldrum - The Stardust Page -1974<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Go-Set: 5 January 1974: Page 24 The Stardust Page</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</tbody></table>By January 1974, the face of popular music had changed quite significantly. Pop and rock still existed, and while was being dominated by Glam, rock was being dominated by blues boogie.<br />
The first cover of 1974, featured 12 covers from 1973. The artists being featured represented a wide cross section of the international music industry.<br />
In order of appearance on this cover<br />
1. Australian May Join Zappa (US) (14July73)<br />
2. Now Tull Quit (UK) (8Sep73)<br />
3. Sherbet's Daryl (AUS) (16Dec73)<br />
4. Aztec Energy Rising (AUS) (30June73)<br />
5. Glittermania (UK) (10Nov73)<br />
6. Aztecs First To Rock Opera House (AUS) (29Sept73)<br />
7. Cassidy Signs For Australian Tour (US) (27Oct73)<br />
8. Jackson 5 Mania! (US) (7July73)<br />
9. Kinks' Ray Davies Quits Too! (UK) (4Aug73)<br />
10. Slade Storm England (UK) (28July73)<br />
11. Brian Cadd Considering Four American Tours (AUS) (15Sept73)<br />
12. Cadd-Hewett 'No' To Opera House (AUS) (1Sept73)<br />
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By 1974, many things had changed in the Go-Set publication format, from the owners, to the sources of information. From the percentage of Australian content, to the authors of the content.<br />
Retrospectively Go-Set had changed because its readers had grown up, the world had changed as had the media companies that owned the popular music press.<br />
Significantly, in 1974, Go-Set was owned by the UK media giant IPC, and it had competition from other magazines, but more specifically Dolly for the teenage market it was originally aimed at. However, historically, Go-Set was now targeting the market that was now predominately University students, and more largely male in gender. David M. Kenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08318092902568434320noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6365342158498846480.post-36565666437101283972011-08-25T18:38:00.000-07:002011-08-30T00:47:30.295-07:00<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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</tbody></table>The Groop were the first Melbourne band, also the first Australian band to be featured in Go-Set. Probably picked because they had played support to Tom Jones and Herman's Hermits, who had toured Australia just prior to Go-Set coming onto the scene.<br />
The feature contains a very important philosophical standpoint, and this was that "The Groop" played what they characterised to be the "Melbourne sound". Important in its own sense, when writing the thesis, this concept of a "Melbourne sound" is quite significant in terms of differentiation and creating a brand sense for Australian and more specifically Melbourne readers at the time. The 3UZ chart a spread of artists between the UK, USA and Australia. There is nothing unusual about this. The Beatles being held off the top of the chart by "The Seekers". The top 15 songs are dominated by UK artists, with 8 songs, then comes Australian artists with 4, and finally US artists with 3. The Groop are posted at number 24 with "Ol' Hound Dog", written McKendee and Ross.<br />
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It is not possible to say at this point who wrote the feature, and although Go-Set had a limited number of feature writers and the staff were still looking for a style. David M. Kenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08318092902568434320noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6365342158498846480.post-1245869921755644982011-08-25T05:26:00.000-07:002011-08-30T00:48:16.230-07:00Crazy New Game Who-Man<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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</tbody></table>Reader interaction with Go-Set would find many pathways over the years. The creation of a game or competition in which readers could draw images send them in, and if they were liked, they would be published, gave the audience a chance to participate in the creation of more reader interest.<br />
The underlying strategy is a play on the word "man" by adding a pronoun, perhaps, a preliminary term that would give the term ...man, a new meaning.<br />
The image drawn by Herman, and signed as Herman, has both childlike and in a sense "beatnik" qualities to it. It looks like the image has a beard, yet when we look closer we see it is meant to be a shirt, or is it.<br />
The image has a naivete that is quite innocent, and this makes it attractive to its teenage readers. The audience gender to which this image is intended to convey most meaning is somewhat vague, yet at the Herman (aka Peter Noone) was a heart throb of the teen female audience, so it would be expected that the competition would draw its entries from mostly teenage girls.<br />
In a few posts I will examine the outcomes from this competition.<br />
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Another aspect of this competition is that it establishes Go-Set as a pipeline to the pop stars of the period and that Go-Set could establish, almost casually, a relationship with pop stars that the teen audience reading Go-Set, could only see from afar.<br />
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Reader participation with Go-Set brought them one step closer perhaps, to meeting the stars that came to Australia!!David M. Kenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08318092902568434320noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6365342158498846480.post-29238051254724562142011-08-23T15:39:00.000-07:002011-08-30T00:48:51.181-07:00Normie Rowe - First appearance in Go-Set of Normie Rowe<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDQiGH9JUwDZDhhmEw3mySvdofU81WXxzYpkwvxvGkMFAdPbl4QIEjxcIBn84EjRqeJJoEGqXzaDUZw6EpU9RvhmpN-OkwI9aqvBFofMr_VHWT5owJVddDxhgGRik7DfJsr8Hlp5wpxB9z/s1600/660214+05+Normie+Rowe.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="160" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDQiGH9JUwDZDhhmEw3mySvdofU81WXxzYpkwvxvGkMFAdPbl4QIEjxcIBn84EjRqeJJoEGqXzaDUZw6EpU9RvhmpN-OkwI9aqvBFofMr_VHWT5owJVddDxhgGRik7DfJsr8Hlp5wpxB9z/s320/660214+05+Normie+Rowe.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">14 February 1966</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</tbody></table>The association of Go-Set with Normie Rowe started in the 3rd issue. It would be the beginning of many links between Go-Set, its audience and the more subtle political agenda that Go-Set would run with its audience. Was it known at this time that Normie would ultimately would have to go and fight in Vietnam? The agenda around Normie going to Vietnam are all played out in Go-Set, sometimes openly, sometimes some others issues were going on behind the scenes. I will examine these issues in further posts.<br />
Go-Set was not above keeping its readers interested in the social and love life of its teen stars. His life can be followed quite intimately through the pages of Go-Set. He was the most covered artist in terms of pictures and stories until he went to Vietnam. The early success of Go-Set could in some ways be attributed to the coverage Go-Set gave to him, as by 1966 Normie was one of, if not already, Australia's biggest home grown star.<br />
With respect to the place of the feature itself, placed on page 5, under an item on the Rolling Stones who were about to tour Australia, it was in fact rather modest taking up the bottom third of the page.<br />
The feature itself reviews a Sydney awards event where Normie was awarded two Gold Records.<br />
The scale of the event seems large by Australian standards, and I will have to research it more. David M. Kenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08318092902568434320noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6365342158498846480.post-62327508871646122362011-08-22T21:25:00.000-07:002011-08-28T16:22:28.387-07:001970 - 3 January Top 40 Chart<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwB6f5yeReJY2phEsgfM1DaUiyKo-IPGS8EJHi66RAQ_yUsAeimu5_3AMezLPVYuZeqXFcvVHX7whgdWWvvgYXygeml5vOAhU7cfERseEO9IZOf3RkgUjGod2JSGw2ZOOrE0__lOArUbnP/s1600/70010304.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwB6f5yeReJY2phEsgfM1DaUiyKo-IPGS8EJHi66RAQ_yUsAeimu5_3AMezLPVYuZeqXFcvVHX7whgdWWvvgYXygeml5vOAhU7cfERseEO9IZOf3RkgUjGod2JSGw2ZOOrE0__lOArUbnP/s320/70010304.jpg" width="127" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Top 40 Chart 3 January 1970 Compiled by Ed Nimmervoll</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</tbody></table>By 1970, all the compilation of the Top 40 charts was handled by Ed Nimmervoll. Ed had been studying architecture, and had an underlying interest in music. The charts he produced for Go-Set were based on a methodology he worked out. He had started supplying Top 40 charts to the Go-Set office in 1967. The office did not know who he was, but published them anyway, along with the explanations sheet that he provided with them.<br />
I don't know whether they paid him, it is most likely they didn't, at least not in the beginning. As Colin Beard has said before, nobody got paid, but there were benefits for working for Go-Set, which I will mention in another post.<br />
Ed Nimmervoll's charts are excellent, and they were the only National Top 40 charts at the time. The Kent Charts (no relations) would be another 4 to 5 years off.<br />
Philosophically, Go-Set's strategy was both to unify the Australian pop/rock nation, and at the same time show its constituent parts. The chart is something of a unifying picture versus the edition philosophy of now having separate editions for Melbourne and Sydney. Alignment occurred amongst the States as the WA and Queensland editions were also contained in the Sydney edition. Melbourne got its own version. The story of how they produce these different editions will be addressed in another post.<br />
Ed Nimmervoll is quite thorough in his sourcing of charts. Breaking down the data, the spread of stations is as follows:<br />
NSW: 4: 2UW, 2SM, 2UE, 2CA<br />
VIC: 4: 3UZ, 3AK, 3DB, 3XY<br />
SA: 1: 5AD <br />
TAS: 2: 7LA, 7HO<br />
WA: 3: 6PR, 6KY, 6PM <br />
QLD: 2: 4BC, 4IP<br />
Total Number is 16 stations<br />
The actual means of calculation is something I have a great interest in. The only person who really knows is Ed Nimmervoll, so it to him we must ask the question. However in the meantime, we can see the spread of the stations is concentrated into the 8 stations of NSW and VIC. The remainder is spread over the other 4 States. The WA aspect of the calculation is based on 3 stations compared to SA (2) and QLD (2). Ed once said the calculation took into the population proportions of each State.<br />
One example of the detail in the chart relates to the sources of the data in the context of the song position. Looking at song 31, Carroll County Accident by Bobby and Laurie. The song was in for the 2nd week, it had previously been at position 38. The calculation was based on charts from Victoria, Queensland and Tasmania. Sadly we don't have the full Top 40 chart for the States in question, to see the specific place information, but that was not the purpose of the chart. Readers were more interested in the sense of Australian ness of the song position rather than how the song was performing in each State. Thus the sense of a united country was presented. Ironically, Carroll County Accident was the cover of a song from the USA. <br />
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David M. Kenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08318092902568434320noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6365342158498846480.post-19338308872689436592011-08-22T15:20:00.000-07:002011-08-28T16:31:33.456-07:00Monash University's Lot's Wife - a snapshot<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTHEk4wYqvMnccqTLTcquaxqaaXnkBlAiyVQ3EVZp9GFHa0odhhT__l-mhoeEcngerIrXdDatTidTlSzLhUts-Ub6LYh0drKx8EiuVm4HwM8zhnZfmGYD_QMy04dKmCqXsS5nKNkjMU9mg/s1600/Lots+Wife+editor.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTHEk4wYqvMnccqTLTcquaxqaaXnkBlAiyVQ3EVZp9GFHa0odhhT__l-mhoeEcngerIrXdDatTidTlSzLhUts-Ub6LYh0drKx8EiuVm4HwM8zhnZfmGYD_QMy04dKmCqXsS5nKNkjMU9mg/s1600/Lots+Wife+editor.jpg" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Image from Lot's Wife - 3 March 1965</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</tbody></table>At Monash University, the student magazine Chaos was closed down and replaced with a new magazine called Lot's Wife.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The mood and direction of Lot's Wife is expressed articulately by the editor, Tony Schauble.</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td></tr>
</tbody></table>In this first issue of Lot's Wife, Phillip Fraser is listed as an artist, along with John Phillips.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">October 1965, Phillip Fraser and Pete Steedman shared the editorial.</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</a></div>The comments on the page mention Steedman, Fraser, and Laird (Ross). Laird indicated in an interview that discussions around time indicated that the editors were looking for something new to do. Participants in this discussion included Damien Broderick, who produced the Lot's Wife justification at the beginning of the year.<br />
The editors earned 12 pounds for each issue, the staff member responsible for collecting advertising could earn 50 pounds an issue in commission, however for the editors, and according to Laird, earning an income, was one motivation for thinking of life beyond university at the time.<br />
<div style="text-align: center;">"From little things, big things grow!"</div>David M. Kenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08318092902568434320noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6365342158498846480.post-65753967026410395422011-08-21T23:11:00.000-07:002011-08-30T01:15:54.320-07:00Melbourne and Sydney Edition Difference 1<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Go-Set Sydney edition 3 January 1970 Page 8</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Go-Set Melbourne edition 3 January 1970 Page 8</td></tr>
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By 1970, with different offices in different capital cities, Go-Set was able to produce different editions of the issue. This is one example of the different pages.<br />
The Sydney edition ran an item called Donnie's Place. It was the Sydney version of Ian Meldrum's gossip. Donnie was Donnie Sutherland, who would go on to host Sounds (commercial TV), while Meldrum went onto host and talent coordinate for Countdown (Australia's ABC).<br />
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The Sydney office was quite different to the Melbourne office, and I will explore this issue is a later posting.<br />
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The Melbourne page is characterised by the Wendy Saddington column. Wendy was a musician, more specifically, she sang the blues.<br />
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I will analyse the content of each page, but for the moment, just enjoy the different styles. David M. Kenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08318092902568434320noreply@blogger.com0