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The final section of "Brother of Mine" draws on an unrecorded Asia track "Long Lost Brother of Mine" written by Howe and Geoff Downes. "Birthright" concerns the British nuclear tests at Maralinga in the 1950s and 1960s in Australia and incorporates material by Howe and Max Bacon for their band Nerotrend.
Don Hancock, known as "the Silver Fox" or as "the Don", was one of the most respected and honored policeman in Australia. [2] In 1982, Hancock had investigated the Perth Mint Swindle case that saw the three Mickelberg brothers convicted for stealing 65 kilograms of gold, a theft that had acquired a legendary reputation in Australia and made Hancock into a local celebrity. [3]
William Gordon Brookman (8 August 1859 – 5 January 1910) was an Australian mining entrepreneur and politician. He made a fortune in the Western Australian gold rush of the 1890s, and later served as Mayor of Perth from 1900 to 1901 and as a member of the Legislative Council of Western Australia from 1900 to 1903.
Tony Lewandowski, a police colleague, identified himself and Hancock as being corrupt dually responsible for fabricating evidence against the three Mickelberg brothers in the Perth Mint Swindle investigation, prior to Lewandowski's 2004 suicide. [3]
Murray was born in Mount Lawley in 1950, and grew up in the eastern Perth suburb of Guildford in the Swan Valley. His father, Keith Murray, was a journalist at The West Australian for a decade from 1948 [2] and his older brother Kim was a reporter at the Daily News. He attended Guildford Primary School and then Guildford Grammar School. [3]
He was the weather presenter on Seven News from 1991 to 2009. [2] [3] Newman was also known for his role as Western Australian presenter of It's Academic, a popular school quiz program that ran for ten years from 1969 to 1979 and later revived from 2001 and 2005. He also served as the main anchor host of the annual Perth Telethon between 1968 ...
On his return trip from Hydra, Anderson met Howe in London who presented him with his musical ideas including the chorus of "Brother of Mine" [2] and "Birthright". Five weeks were spent producing demo tracks at La Frette Studios in Paris. Anderson asked musician Milton McDonald to help with the project and play additional guitars. [2]
In 1915, Hamilton, George Ridgway and Frank A. Moss purchased the old Lancefield mine, at Beria, Western Australia, regarded as exhausted, and worked it profitably until 1921, when it closed for good. He was a board member, Wiluna Gold Mines, Ltd. [16] He was a member of the exclusive [17] Weld Club, Perth, and Hannans Club, Kalgoorlie.