The TWO DONNIES (director's cut) - documentary about the turbulent life of Donnie Sutherland

"The Two Donnies was the opening episode of the SBS TV documentary series: "The Two of Us" (based on the weekly column featured in the Sydney Morning Herald and The Melbourne Age) This is the "director's cut - slighlty different from the broadcast version. I directed this back in 2006 and it chronicles the often turbulent life of one of Australia's great TV and radio personalities, Donnie Sutherland. We follow Donnie's rise as a young working class kid form Sydney's Western suburbs from a potentially successful career as a jockey which morphs radically into a vibrant career in show business. Firstly as a recording artist, fronting his own thumping Oz garage rock band "Donnie Sutherland and The Titans", then as a DJ, Go -Set reporter and radio personality and finally, as the host of one of Australia's most successful music -entertainment programs "Sounds". There are recent interviews with John Paul Young, music historian Glenn. A. Baker. Some great archive footage/interviews with Iggy Pop, Hush and Thin Lizzy to name a few. The film also exposes the downside as well as the highs. In the end, it's a life long friendship with his best mate, Donnie McMilian that pulls Donnie out of the pit of failure and despair and ressurects his life and career. Donnie's story is classic rags to riches and crashing back down to rags fable with a wonderful thrid act riding on the back of a racing greyhound dog!! A quintessential Aussie story.

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Entertainment

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• Donnie Sutherland
• John Paul Young
• Brendan Young
• documentary
• Sounds
• Sounds Unlimited
• Ausralian 80s music
• Iggy Pop
• Thin Lizzy
• Glenn. A Baker
• The Twof Us
• diabolik68

[alanwhit]

Great program guys ... spent my teenage years watching Donnie religiously on Sounds on Saturday morning, from '75 to about '86. Always struck me as a thorough gentleman and hope he remains on his feet