Recovery

A monumental new book will bring the full story of Australia's most loved music television program, Countdown, to life. COUNTDOWN - A Complete Episode Guide, a lavish 460-page hardcover coffee table book, will be released in the first week of December 2025, paying tribute to the show that shaped a generation and forever changed Australian pop culture.

Chris Doheny, the Melbourne-born singer, songwriter and frontman best known for leading 80s pop-rock outfit Geisha and lending his voice to the AFL anthem More Than A Game, has died in a road accident on the Thiele Highway, near Kings Bridge Road, Kapunda.

When Mondo Rock released Baby Wants To Rock in 1984, they were riding high on a string of Australian hits but still searching for a global breakthrough. The single became a staple on Australian radio, helped cement the group’s reputation as one of the most consistent hitmakers of the 80s, and decades later, found an unlikely new audience with its appearance in the 2025 film The Naked Gun.

Skyhooks archivist Peter Green has discovered Skyhooks footage nearly 50 years old long thought to have been lost.

The Ian ‘Molly’ Meldrum short documentary from the Australian Music Vault has been reposted to mark the 50th anniversary of Countdown.

The very first Countdown aired in Australia on 8 November 1974, at 6:30pm on a Friday and its original duration was to fit inside a 30 minute slot.

Online sales for the Countdown 50 cent coin, released today (3 October 2024) by the Royal Australian Mint, was an instant sell-out.