Thirty-five years ago, the ABC pop music show ‘Countdown’ ended as it began 13 years earlier – with teenagers screaming and compere, Ian “Molly” Meldrum, punctuating his speech liberally with ums and ahs.
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he said, well, look, try and get it together. and then the story is, it goes on, iforgot all about it, and then they rang me up and said, have you done it? and i said yeah. and i hadn t. and that s where the story is, you know, i was in the loo, actually, and i got the idea for it. countdown music reaches crescendo he may never have been a household name, but almost everyone knew alan hawkshaw s music. the musician, alan hawkshaw, who has died at the age of 8a. britain s number one men s player, cameron norrie, has reached the final of the indian wells tournament in california after beating the bulgarian grigor dimitrov in straight sets. whatever happens in this evening s final, he will now enter the world s top 20 for the first time. ben croucher reports. for a man who has taken the long road to tennis s top table, all of a sudden cam norrie is in a hurry. announcer: cameron norrie! from johannesburg via auckland, london and texas, aged 26, norrie is now accelerating