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July 2010

The Radio Show, entitled 'Happy Birthday Peter', featured a cross section of Peter's songs, from his earliest solo recordings, through Grandma's Tonic, Virgil Brothers, New Seekers and later works, ending with John Cartwright's tribute song My Friend, included interviews with Nic Culverwell, the New Seekers' current manager, Lyn Paul and myself and messages from John Cartwright , Eve Graham and fans.  It will be repeated (broadcast details below) on Wednesday 4th August, between 2 and 4 pm BST. (More detailed review to follow......)

Revised Details:
Please note that the tribute show detailed below has been extended to a 2 hour show which will now be broadcast on Sunday 25th July between 2 and 4 pm.

UCA radio will be broadcasting a one hour's birthday tribute to Peter with songs from his solo, Virgil Brothers and New Seeker days.  The programme will be broadcast between 2 and 4pm BST on Wednesday 28th July in the Maverick's Music Box programme and repeated between 2 and 5pm BST on Sunday 7th August. The station broadcasts locally, on 87.7 fm from Ayrshire in Scotland. It is also available over the internet - visit the website at: UCA Radio

The programme's presenter, Angus Martin, would welcome contributions from anyone who wants to share their memories of Peter Doyle.  If you have any you would like to share please email them to me here and I will pass them on.

March 2010

Site News

Removed obsolete external links from the Links page.

December 2009

Site News

Messages commemorating Peter's 60th birthday have now been moved to the Guestbook.

July 2009

It is 'that time of the year' again and really hard to believe that Peter should have been celebrating his 60th birthday this year.  I know many of you will be makingl birthday visit to the site and would want to join me in sending thoughts and prayers to Peter's family and friends.

Sad to hear about the death in February of Pat Aulton , who, as Australia's leading producer at the time, produced all of Peter's early recordings on the Sunshine label.

On a happier note, the current line-up of the New Seekers are on tour again, this year celebrating the 40th anniversary of the founding of the original group.  They have just released an CD entitled It's Been Too Long, which includes original recordings of all the group's UK hits as well as a few tracks by the latest line up and another CD comprising two of the groups original albums Together Again and Anthem both of which were released after Peter Doyle left the group.  Meanwhile Lyn Paul has been appearing in her own show in Europe which she has put together to recreate the sound of the New Seekers.

Site News

Details of the It's Been Too Long CD added to the discography and other minor changes made to the New Seeker CD pages

Thoughts and Memories - a new page added to commemorate Peter's 60th birthday, if you would like to add anything to this page, please send a message to the Guest Book address.

A fresh look given to the home page and a change of logo introduced on other pages along with minor updates.

June 2009

Site News

Link page updated. Please let me know via the contact link below if you find any broken links on the site, whether to external sites or pages within the website.  I would also welcome feedback on the text version of this website.  At the moment only a handful of pages are available as text only pages, if you would like to see more of the website's content converted to a text only version, please let me know.

February 2009

Marcie Jones has recently published her autobiography, Runs in the Blood, a not-to-be-missed read for anybody interested in this Australian singing legend and the Australian music scene in recent decades.   Marcie's story of her life and times is scattered with memories of good friends, not least of whom is her very special friend, Peter Doyle. As well as various anecdotes about Peter, he can be spotted in a few of the pictures from the 60s as well as a lovely photo taken with Marcie and Rob Mcpherson in the 1990s.  Copies of the book are available direct from Australia at : http://marcie.ncs.net.au/  For more about Marcie visit her website : http://www.marciejones.com

Very sorry to hear about the deaths of Brian Naylor and his wife Moiree in the recent fires in Australia.  Brian was the leader of Swallows Juniors, later called Brian and the Juniors, the troupe which Peter joined after winning their talent show and stayed with for 5 years.  After 11 years with the Juniors Brian moved on to newsreading firstly on Channel 7 and then Channel 9 retiring in 1998 after over 40 years in broadcasting.  He was well-loved and respected by many and will be greatly missed.  Our thoughts are with his family and indeed the many who have suffered because of the recent fires in Australia.

There is currently a clip on YouTube from Australian Television featuring Brian Naylor talking about his television career and if you watch it carefully, amongst the clips of the Juniors, you will catch a quick glimpse of a young Peter Doyle singing a duet, but blink and you will miss it!   YouTube clip

January 2009

Music Pop Hits have recently updated their website and now have a page dedicated to Peter Doyle where you can listen to some of his early solo recordings and also some he made with the Virgil Brothers:  http://www.musicpophits.com/MainPages/MaleStars/PeterDoyle.htm
There is also a New Seekers page which includes a small selection of the group's recordings which mostly include Peter and a page for Marty Kristian.

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