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BANANARAMA

  Their success was beyond anyone’s wildest dreams and before the Spice Girls, they were the biggest girl group in the world even surpassing the Supremes.   The Bands original lineup consisted of Keren Woodward, Sara Dallin and Siobhan Fahey. In the aftermath of punk, three girls came...

THE AUNTY JACK SHOW

  "The Aunty Jack Show" was one of Australia's earliest and best loved TV Logie Award winning comedy series. Starring a motor-cycling tranvestite boxer, it ran from 1972 to 1973 on Australia's national broadcaster ABC-TV and attained an instant cult status that persists to this...

KC & THE SUNSHINE BAND

    From the mid- to late '70s, the multi-member and racially integrated group led by bandleaders Harry Wayne "KC" Casey and Richard Finch racked up some of the era's biggest and instantly recognizable dance hits. Founded in 1973 in Miami Florida, their style has covered many...

ANNE MURRAY

    Morna Anne Murray was born on 20 June 1945 in the small coal mining town of Springhill, Nova Scotia. Her father James Carson Murray was the town doctor and her mother Marion was a registered nurse who decided to focus her life on raising...

NICOLE RICHIE

    Adopted at the age of three, Richie grew up in privileged L.A. society, where her playmates included hotel heiress Paris Hilton and reality TV star Khloe Kardashian. She paired up with Paris in the reality show “The Simple Life” for five seasons. After arrests and...

ANTON GREGOR RUBINSTEIN

      His tours throughout Europe and America made him the most famous pianist of his time. Few of his many compositions are played today. Rubinstein was born to Jewish Parents in the Village of Vikhvatinets in the district of Podoisk, in Russia on the 28 November...

FARRAH FAWCETT – MAJORS

    Sadly Farrah Fawcett is no longer with us, but one things for sure, to many men and women of her time, they will remember her as the ultimate pin up girl, women wanted to look like and the arm candy all men wish they...

GUS MERCURIO

  Gus Mercurio (actor), renown for his gravelly voice, was also one of the most recognised and loved faces in Australian television history. Augustino Eugenio “Gus” Mercurio born 10th August, 1928 was an American born Australian actor who appeared in both television and film. Born and raised in...

GLEN CAMPBELL

  Glen Travis Campbell was born on April 22, 1936, on the family’s farm in Delight, Arkansas. The son of Wesley, a sharecropper and home maker mother Carrie Dell, Campbell was on of 12 children. They didn’t have a lot of money, quite impoverished in...

PRINCE PHILIP (retirement comes at 96)

  It’s official, as of today, Prince Philip, is stepping down from Royal duties. The Duke of Edinburgh announced that he will no longer accompany his wife on regular engagements, after seven decades of working together in public life.   The retirement of the Duke of Edinburgh...