Holger Brockman is an Australian radio broadcaster. He began his career in commercial radio in the 1960s and worked for several years in the early 1970s at 2SM
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Holger Brockman is an Australian radio broadcaster. He began his career in commercial radio in the 1960s and worked for several years in the early 1970s at 2SM
2SM
2SM is an Australian radio station, licensed to and serving Sydney, New South Wales, broadcasting on 1269 kilohertz on the AM radio band. It is owned and operated by Broadcast Operations Group.... , then Australia's top-rating pop music station. In line with the prevailing practice in commercial radio at that time, Brockman was obliged to adopt the anglophone pseudonym "Bill Drake
Bill Drake
Bill Drake , born Philip Yarbrough, was an United States radio Radio programming who co-developed the Boss Radio format with Gene Chenault via their company Drake-Chenault.... " while working at 2SM.
Brockman is best known in Australia for being the first presenter on air on 19 January 1975, when the ABC's new rock music station Double Jay commenced broadcasting, at which time he reverted to using his real name.
According to the liner notes for the album Rodriguez Alive, Brockman was instrumental in popularising the music of cult singer-songwriter Sixto Rodriguez in Australia after he purchased a copy of Rodriguez's debut album Cold Fact
Cold Fact
Cold Fact is the debut album from American singer-songwriter, Sixto Diaz Rodriguez.... and began playing the song "Sugar Man" on his 2SM evening shift in 1972; after his move to Double Jay in 1975 Brockman regularly played songs from the entire Rodriguez oeuvre
ABC News Radio is the radio service of ABC News, a division of the ABC Television Network. Formerly known as ABC Radio News, ABC News Radio feeds, through ABC Radio, newscasts on the hour to its more than 2,000 affiliates.... .
