Entertainment

Hi there team. Just had to put this in. It was this week 1970 that one of the landmark albums of modern music was released. Simon and Garfunkel’s Bridge Over Troubled Water. The album and several tracks off it were hits all over the world. S&G went there separate ways for several years after its […]

Hiya team, at last we’ve got some real summer weather, and just as schools start for the 2020 year. Anyways, I came across the other day, went to No1 in the UK this week 1979. A big hit here as well around that time. Ian Dury and The Blockheads Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick. […]

After a hugely successful debut on TVNZ DUKE in 2019, SPW are happy to confirm we will be returning in 2020! We will be capturing content throughout the year at our Live Events with an expected first air date on TVNZ DUKE in July. This will then be made available via TVNZ On Demand. We […]

Hi there team and welcome to another Mal’s Music Memory Two artists have made the news (so far) this week. Billy Idol for the wrong reasons and Ozzy Osborne. In case you haven’t caught up with it, Ozzie the Great has been diagnosed with a type of Parkinson’s disease. He really didn’t sound on top […

Sad news from the entertainment world. English actor Derek Fowlds has passed away aged 82. Derek Fowlds had a long career from the early ’60’s across stage, screen and TV. Some of a certain age might remember him coping with an irrepressible and irresistible  Basil Brush  (Boom Boom!). Derek Fowlds

Sad to report that we’ve lost another. Mental As Anything frontman  Andrew McArthur “Greedy ” Smith died after suffering a heart attack. Greedy was on the road with the current line up of the Mental’s when he past away. I’m pretty sure that Mental As Anything performed on this side of the Tasman on

Ho Ho Ho team and Christmas greetings to everyone Here’s a couple of Christmas crackers for you. Can’t have a Christmas without Mariah Carey’s All I Want….. Heard on the news that this song has finally reached No1 on the Billboard charts in the US. No1!! That’s after 25 Christmas’s. They also said t

Hi team Welcome to the last month of the year. Just think, in a few weeks it’ll be the ’20’s. Anyways, I was having such a good time resurrecting songs from from 40 years ago, 1979 and it struck me. I haven’t put in any Kiwi tunes from ’79 So here we go with our […]