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METROFYI CC 2 THE AGE FRIDAY 2 MAY 1997 It Chronicles Obituaries I V-iiii rftl.i it FT Inspiration broadcasts rJ'l i An is, i i mi i7 '( M- -I A Reg Barlow Athletics club coach Born: 22 July 1904 Died: 26 April 1997, aged 92 KEG BARI.OW had a huge influence in building Melbourne's Box Hill club into one of the strongest athletics clubs in the world. In the decade or so after the Second World War, when sporting clubs everywhere needed to be re-established, Reg helped get Box Hill on its feet again. For 30 years he was a club coach, and in that time Box Hill dominated Victorian athletics. From the early. '60s to the present day.

the club won 27 out of 32 premiership. At its zenith, Box Hill was possibly the strongest athletic club In the world. The club system does not exist in the United States, and there is no doubt the club from Melbourne's eastern suburbs would have been competitive with any of the English or European clubs of the time. For most of that period, Reg Barlow was quietly supportive of his more flamboyant and well-known brother, Alan. It was Reg who convinced Alan to become involved in the late 1950s.

In the next few years, the membership grew from 45 to more than 200 as the club flourished. There was great committee support at the time, but the Barlow brothers provided much of the impetus. Perhaps reflecting their different personalities, Alan gravitated to the sharp end of the performance scale. He guided the careers of athletes like Graham Crouch, and was an Olympic team coach in 1976. Reg's influence was more widely spread.

Ian Jones, a former top middle-distance athlete, recalls: "In years when Box Hill had over 300 members, Reg knew every one by name." As an athlete, Reg set many world and Australian veterans' records. He held every Australian record in the 70-74 age group, from 3000 metres to one hour. Reg's wife of more than 60 years, Thel-ma, predeceased him by just a couple of years. He is survived by four children Ken, Nola, Jeff and Lois and several grandchildren. Len Johnson Obituaries are edited by Peter Schumpeter.

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Tcrgot HOW words of four letters or more can you.make -from those shown here? Each letter may i be used once word; word must contain the rn to big band vision had always been taken from records. May changed that, writing and arranging the themes for such programs as Frank and Francesco his first TV project llellbird and Love Story. The breakthrough was the drama series Hush, set on the 19th-century Victorian goldfields. May's arrangement of the theme by Australian composer George Dreyfus was recorded by the Show Band, quickly reaching the tup of the Australian charts, selling more than luO.OOO copies something that only pop groups such as Sherbet and Skyhooks could achieve. Other successful Show Band albums followed, but May's interests had already turned to film music when he left the ABC in 19114.

The gut reaction as you watch the visuals for the first time is vital, but it sometimes fails," May said. One such moment was with producer George Miller, who rejected May's first ideas for the Mad Max theme. May suggested rock 'n' roll. Miller wanted big symphonic sounds. May agreed.

"It proved to work as a strange, dissonant classical score." Other film themes followed: Tales from the Crypt. Nightmare on Mm Street, Mad Max 2 (Hand Warrior) and Callipoli, and among television titles, Return to Fden, The I nsl Frontier, A Dangerous Life and Darling the Cods. May leaves a widow and four children. Robin Oliver, Sydney Morning Herald Crosswords 16 Integrating hair-dresser in gin cocktail (9) 17 Corrupt commotion about a riding track (6,3) 18 One result of tossing stylish status of principal (8) 21 Get by scheming at the western corner (6) 22 They keep the rain off a thousand amperes (5) 23 Mahatma said he'd show the Kenyans! (5) 27 One white lie initially gets the bird! (3) Ml I OP Solution Comics For Better or Worse I ACTUAU.V Of -jn ri DO 60 WHERE DO GO WHEN YOU OCT WUR MET 1 LI UUNNU 1 Mel MW'RErrtsl 1 ON' 11 Uliepe (SO WHEN yUU VTCIVBTtti License 1 it AMI i me low nn 2rvr i Brian May (Composer Born: Adelaide, 28 July 1934 Oied: 'Melbourne, 25 April 1997, aged 62 THE satisfyingly brassy sound of the ABC Melbourne Show Band blew the cobwebs from traditional popular music on ABC radio and television when, in 1969, Brian became its arranger, conductor and inspiration. May, who died last Friday of a heart attack while visiting friends in Melbourne, brought supreme excellence to what became broadcasting's twilight.

The Show Band and its musical director enjoyed spectacular recording success and would provide theme tunes for several TV series, broadcast in its own right, and even gave a somewhat unwanted big band nudge to the launch of the, famous Countdown series. The scream theme was May's. Big bands had fascinated May before he arrived in Melbourne in 1968 to take over the ABC Melbourne Dance Band. He had joined ABC Adelaide in 1957, a 23-year-old musician who had studied piano, violin and orchestration at the city's Elder Conservatorium. The ABC soon recognised the potential of its "fine light pianist" and May was asked to form the ABC Adelaide Big Band, a full-blown ensemble that Michael Shrimpton, executive producer of Countdown and head of the ABC's Melbourne Variety Unit, remembers as probably the best of the ABC state-based bands.

In Melbourne in 1969, the outmoded image of the ABC Dance Band was abandoned and a new-style 36-piece group was announced. The ABC Melbourne Show Band and its conductor Brian May made its radio debut on the First Network on 13 March 1969 with singers Anne and lohnny Hawker and Phil Lanham. The ABC was heading for a goldt'n age of television variety. Shrimpton and May formed a strong partnership, working from adjoining offices in ABC premises in Home Street, Melbourne. "It's really an audio gag," says Shrimpton, referring to the spelling of the street name, "but Brian and I got much fun out of the fact that the building was sandwiched between Furnishings and the Daily Planet massage parlor." Background music for Australian tele- CryptlC No.

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