{"id":2347,"date":"2009-09-30T07:07:24","date_gmt":"2009-09-30T11:07:24","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-10-21T13:20:53","modified_gmt":"2009-10-21T13:20:53","slug":"name-that-tune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/name-that-tune\/","title":{"rendered":"The Streets of Your Town"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 1975, <strong>Bon Scott<\/strong> and the lads took their metal boogie to the streets of Melbourne. <i>It&#8217;s A Long Way To the Top (if you wanna rock and roll)<\/i> and the clip are key moments in Australian rock lore. So much so that a couple of years ago a laneway, Corporation Lane, was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/articles\/2004\/09\/09\/1094530766163.html\" target=\"_blank\">renamed AC\/DC Lane<\/a>.<br \/><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_UaJ9UKM7kk?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Then this week in Brisbane, 2000 miles to the north of Melbourne, a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/stories\/2009\/09\/29\/2699443.htm\" target=\"_blank\">bridge was named<\/a> in honour of <strong>The Go-Betweens<\/strong>, the band as much as any, catches the moods of the Queensland capital. The Hale Street Bridge is now The Go-Betweens Bridge. In their pomp, most of the band&#8217;s success was outside of Brisbane, and they wasted little time hitting the road for cities more receptive to their Velvets\/Monkees\/Richman\/Television skinny pop thing.<br \/><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/y5CRiS8bRTw?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The question is, are there other places named in honour of a band or song?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1975, Bon Scott and the lads took their metal boogie to the streets of Melbourne. It&#8217;s A Long Way To the Top (if you wanna rock and roll) and the clip are key moments in Australian rock lore. So much so that a couple of years ago a laneway, Corporation Lane, was renamed AC\/DC <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/name-that-tune\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":339,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2347"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/339"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}