A flashpoint moment between two media industries standing their ground leads to breakthrough opportunities for new local music artists.
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In 1947, the transistor radio emerged, revolutionising culture. The arrival of this pocket-sized wonder, released commercially in 1955, coincided with the rise of rock'n'roll and the transistor became an emblem of freedom for the newly dubbed teenagers.
The radio becomes portable, and a kind of mania – Beatlemania – grips the nation as the popularity and powers of DJs and presenters grow, and audiences find a connection in the once-illegal talkback radio.
The Beatles' arrival in June 1964 ushered in a seismic cultural shift that forever altered the radio landscape. Once music fits in our pockets, we keep it there – forever.
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The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia acknowledges Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we work and live and gives respect to their Elders both past and present.