Boy George Opens Radio 10 - Brisbane, Australia

[MrMegatino10]

haha he looks like a fukin faggot

[TheDellanator]

OMMFFFG! i love in australia! to bad i dont live in brisbane, and to bad i wasnt around in the 1980's

[bk28111967]

I guess Culture Club were okay in their day but the station was excellent...after all, I did work for them!

[jonilimjw]

Lovely...

[trvwatson]

Love the way he says Manchester is this little place in England, WHAT its a huge city in England

[jarden30]

i was there on this day,i can even see a glimpse of the friends i went with.

i got there at 930 in the morning and we stood there ALL day just to see him,then went on to his first brisbane concert at festival hall that night.

it literally gave me goosebumps at the happy memories,where did all that time go?!

and i STILL love him!

[bwstripessam]

My friend and I were at the Warana Festival and we saw the Stereo 10 tent and got a sample bag from them. We were so pumped. I remember the studio opening, it was the future back then. I did not stop listening to the radio after that I was hooked.

[aceyacem]

He walked all over Laura Brannigan. Booo!!!!!

[GIANMARCOification]

he´s so Cut!!!

[MissLilac1000]

He is fantastic and wonderful!!

[LucieeeX80sX]

George looks so beautiful here and even though he's been through so much recently, he still is!

[templartanner]

The only thing I have ever wanted to do is kiss that man! He is soo hot!!

I don't care if he might not prefer my side of the gender circle

I want him!

[123456789jklmn]

What a beautiful day in Australia. Wished I was here welcoming Boy George and Culture Club. They looked great. Fabulous interviewed with Boy George. Always wonderful listening to him talk.

It's worth every penny waiting for your album.

[Isanan]

I love you Boy George!

[Tootie002]

omg!! im like in love with this guy!!! i love his songs, i wish i could talk to him from the radio sattion, i wish we were back in 1982-1985 :)

[amoboygeorge]

Esse video de Boy George ainda no Culture Club, é maravilhoso recordar!

[Shona15b]

I'm so in love with him !!

I also read what this Richard told about george and it made me sad . .

no one laughts about hi , he is still a genus and one of the ICON MUSIC !

love you george even if I'm not from your generation! <3

[CorruptCop]

But he warned him: Prisoners will be out to beat you up.

Richard, 40, from Romford, East London, said: When I walked into the cell I saw this fat, bald bloke sitting in the corner crying like a baby. He was shaking like a leaf, a total wreck.

He kept sobbing over and over, I cant go to jail Ill be killed.

He was crying about how he was just a fat old pop star that everyone was laughing at.

[rdgloveshouse]

I'm totally in love with him. 0_0 <3

- I'm also totally jealous of his looks as well-- and I'm a girl-- he's gorgeous

lol

hope things start looking up for him soon

Boy George 4eva!

[lyfragola]

Sigan trayendonos más de sus entrevistas, son un verdadero placer para todos sus fans,recordarlo desde sus inicios,profesionalmente es muy correcto y nunca le falló a su público,eso valoramos hasta hoy,pues apesar de estar pasando por problemas serios sigue cumpliendo con sus seguidores,gracias YOUTUBE por seguir enviándo más y más de BOY GEORGE.THANK YOU SO MUCH.

[xxxmentaltrashxxx]

that is an insane level of fame..........

who the hell listens to AM radio though??

[Rasprodz]

Obviously eveyone in this video did at the time, as many still did in 1984, especially the teen market who didn't have any real alternative then.

[00Magiceyes00]

10m 36s

Ownn .. *-*

♥

[MicMogul]

2min 32secs in, a slip on the turntable? You don't get that reality today.

[DoccyBGforever]

Love it!!!!

[meilintza]

I Love You Boy George Full Stop!!! Wo Ai Ni Boy George!!! Aishiteru Boy George!!!Salahio Boy George!!!

[MicMogul]

I heard the song that plays in this video (with hook line, "it's a miracle") on 973 this afternoon. Audio quality and experience was great on FM.

Am sure I couldn't say the same for Radio 10 in AM stereo when same song played there.

Why oh why would you run a top 40/CHR/kiddies radio format on AM when your main competition is the only FM commercial station and rating 20, 30 per cent?????

The person who devised the business plan for this Radio 10, should be hunted down shot to this day. Fool!

[annedoverfist]

No radio station would just roll over to the opposition without a fight, especially if it was once number 1 in the market. Not only that, both FM 104 and Radio 10 were targeting 2 very different demographics. FM 104 wern't interested in kids at all. At that time, they were so bullish that they even refused to broadcast commercials that contained kids voices.

[annedoverfist]

Radio 10 definitely had the kids market more than any othe Brisbane station, only problem was that kids didn't have the spending power that the FM audience did. FM 104 made loads on lifestyle, nightclub and car advertising. Also Radio 10 had no way of knowing just how big FM would become. FM 104 only started grow very big very fast from 1982.

[MicMogul]

Long term survival might've been a better goal of Radio 10 to shadow box rather than fight by moving to a mature music format instead.

[andjb1]

great piece of radio history there! Although a minor point, your blurb states that 3XY was owned by the Catholic Church. In fact, it never was, despite its close format ties with 2SM and 4IP.

[schellwardee]

Oh my god, how embarrassing! From getting Boy George to open your studio's, to B grade announcers crashing vocals, reading cliché filled notes (Phil Darkin) 'we're having a ball out here" please! Chris Lee(?) parachuting onto a barge (so what!), then instead of giving the channel 7 chopper the famous channel 7 hand gesture (five fingers spread out followed by two) Chris gives like three and a half followed by two...how embarrassing! Nothing about this clip is good. It's embarrasing for everyone.

[Rareclipz]

Not only that, if memory serves, the '7' hand gensture was a late 70's thing was it not?. By 1984 it well and truly a thing of the past. The crashing vocals bit was unforgivable.

[67gtfalcon]

Wow, does this ever bring back memories !. I was a young 16 yr old kid doing work experience at Radio 10 at the time. I worked the carpark that day, and had The Tarago drive about a meter past me. Yes, I had one of those white Radio 10 jumpers on, but it didn't keep the winter winds out. I had many great times at 4IP then Radio 10. I learned heaps, and had a blast. Damn, was it THAT long ago...

[culturekarma]

I'm jealous of that kiss. Boy George looks sooo good in this.

[boommarketing]

Yep it was fun guys , what a moment in time , it was crazy, glad stereo 10 let us go mad , all that without drugs , hi to all Boogiecheckers , From Dave Daly...now 44 years old , now living in Noosa

[ILuvBoyGeorge]

yay i was born in brisbane.. damnit i wanted to mee boy george

[SpookOfHearts99]

Oh my goth. I wish I was alive back then.

Have you walked on the same ground that Boy walked on? ^^

[ILuvBoyGeorge]

lol yes I walked on that ground that Boy george did but not that year lol!

xox

[SpookOfHearts99]

Did you kiss it? I might have. Not really, but still... That would be so awesome!

[ILuvBoyGeorge]

haha i wish but ..nah i just walked on it lmfao!

xx

[SpookOfHearts99]

Your feet touched where his feet touched! You're suddenly magic! Aha ha ha!

[ILuvBoyGeorge]

lmfao thanks! Look at me I'm Magical (not) lol!

xox

[SpookOfHearts99]

You have the magic power of Boy-George-Adorableness! Ha ha! ^^

-Lotte

[Cartoneaus]

I absolutely loved Radio/Stereo 10! I was devastated when they got rid of it and back then, SeaFM on the Gold Coast (where I live) didn't quite cut it for me. I was *and still am) a real Top 40 nut and sadly, nothing has ever quite filled that niche as perfectly as Radio/Stereo 10 did. Now...where *is* my Fantastic Plastic?! I still have all of my Top 45 charts, too (collected on a weekly basis between January 1983 and the end of 1987). Ah, the memories...! Thanks for posting!

[ausmax]

WOW. I have some Boogiecheck tapes somewhere in a box with my Radio 10 fantastic plastic discount card. I remember Fluffy handled complaints, Gus was the cleaner who refused to empty bins. Sometimes Frank Spencer and Bob Hawke would turn up. Wasn't there a character called Bruce as well as Captain Boogiecheck?

Great stuff..how old do I feel.

Where did you get this footage?

Thanks for the memories

[Rareclipz]

I think I have the very last Boogiecheck on tape somewhere too. I'll have to dig it out. DD was a great jock for the time. I also have the complete last big Stereo 10 jingle package. Wish I still had my Fantastic Plastic card though. I lost mine.

[pantherslair]

It was cool to see this at least from a Brisbane radio history point of view. I didn't tune into radio until Stereo 10 and Dave Daly's and Rob Elliot's "Boogiecheck". Dave had Fluffy and Rob had Gus the cleaner and a swag of other characters. Rob's now in Melbourne and Dave was up Noosa way the last I heard.

All thats left is a whole bunch of Radio/Stereo 10 memorabilia (shirts/flags/fantastic plastic/tape of station ID's) as well as old audio tapes of recorded episodes of the "Boogiecheck".

[b28c]

at 7:50 George is gasping for air after each sentence!

[ILuvBoyGeorge]

lmfao yer!

[eartha122664]

he wheezes bec. he suffers from asthma.

[CMCHRYSLERVALIANT]

that was very entertaining, I was 17 back then I'm 40..... fuck

[MicMogul]

From Brisbane radio's powerhouse to the outhouse.

Right down there with cash-stapped regional stations doing a Sat morn OB.

[travisisit]

How funny they closed Coronation Drive!

Poor Boy George, he was so polite after that guy announced he was wearing a black leotard!

Oh to be back in the 80's.

It was great to see this clip.

[schellwardee]

I don't know who I hate the most. The jock who crashes the vocals, Phil Darkin, Chris Lee, or the V/O guy for this clip. I think all of them should be located so that we can punish them. I want to replicate the jock crashing the vocals (with the actual jock), and when he crashes the vocals, I can hit him from behind with something heavy, like a mattock or a piece of hard wood.

[schellwardee]

Very true Rasprodz, the historical significance of this clip is right up there. I have not seen anything quite like it. My apologies if my initial comments seemed harsh. This really is a classic piece of radio history, warts and all.

[Rasprodz]

Nah.Valid comments for sure. Can't say I was ever a fan of the station at all, but they did fill a void in the market and I think this clip kinda shows why they faild and it is a little sad seeing how a once dominating station gradually feel victim to the FM stations and ended up a racing station.

[schellwardee]

Oh my god, how embarrassing! From getting Boy George to open your studio's, to B grade announcers crashing vocals, reading cliché filled notes (Phil Darkin) 'we're having a ball out here" please! Chris Lee(?) parachuting onto a barge (so what!), then instead of giving the channel 7 chopper the famous channel 7 hand gesture (five fingers spread out followed by two) Chris gives like three and a half followed by two....how embarrassing! Nothing about this clip is good.

[Rasprodz]

Agreed it is all a little cringeworthy. All Boy George wanted is get it over with. And I was wondering when someone would comment on 'crashing the vocals'. Radio 10 never really stood a chance. Perhaps the only saving grace was the fact that it was the only pure Top 40 station in Brisbane, and maybe Dave Daly during the Stereo 10 days.(where is he now?) Nothing good about the video perhaps but is still of some historic value given the pre 80's history.

[bwstripessam]

@schellwardee this clip is so bad it is good, everything about this is priceless. Love the orange Holden Gemini.

[Rasprodz]

@bwstripessam I even had one just like it. 

[bwstripessam]

@Rasprodz I have three like it now. To tell you the truth I wish I was born a decade earlier so I could of cruzed those Brissy streets back then in a brand new Gemini. Born a decade late I was damn it.

[WickedFabala]

did he mean the stadium that they were in for the Live in Sydney DVD? cuz i thought it was big!

thanks for putting this up!

[Rasprodz]

No, he was refering to Festival Hall in Brisbane, which was even by 1984 standards reletively small and quite an old venue, but was Brisbanes only main concert venue prior to the Entertainment Centre opening in 1986. Virtually all major acts played Festival Hall including the Beatles. It was demolished only 3 years ago.

[manchitas1234]

I love u boy george :+)

[suebg]

pretty!

[springtime65]

Yes A Gay Icon :+).....

[springtime65]

Wow That was great hes So EVITA!!!!!!!!!! I love him I just cant stop looking,Thats an Icon!!!!!!!! :+)Thanks for sharing video plz send more ..:+)

[annedoverfist]

Phil Darkin....an icon?????