Terry Heazlewood – retired

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About Terry Heazlewood – retired

Terry Heazlewood, a presenter of the 5mbs River Blues program, retired in September 2024. The station will miss his passion, knowledge and fifty years of experience in community radio.

Tess Coleman, a fellow Blues presenter on River Blues, writes “Terry is Australia’s longest-running blues presenter, having started in 1974 on 5UV which became Radio Adelaide, Australia’s first Community Broadcasting station. I worked with him on the Saturday Blues program from 2010-2020, when we moved to 5MBS to present River Blues. When we increased our air time more presenters came on board so now we have a team of six. Terry will be difficult to replace as he has so much knowledge of blues music, past and present. The Blues team send him our best wishes for the future.”

In Terry’s words from 2022 – “I have been collecting music in a serious way since the mid 60s and still today find immense joy in most musical genres, but with a particular focus on blues.

In the early 1970s, I discovered ‘blues’ via Kim Bonython’s Saturday morning jazz program on the ABC. It was a once only special program of contemporary blues of the time which inspired me to commence the lifelong exploration of the blues genre, which I still continue today.

I was instrumental in starting two of Adelaide’s longest lasting blues programs, first in 1974 on the first Australian public radio station 5UV, later to become Radio Adelaide, and later in 1980 beginning ‘Blues Power’ on 5MMM the first public FM station in Adelaide, later to become today’s ThreeD Radio.

In the ensuing years I have been continuously broadcasting not only on Radio Adelaide, but also had a couple of short lived blues programmes on commercial FM in Adelaide on SAFM and later on X102.

I joined 5MBS in 2020 with a goal of presenting the best contemporary blues from all parts of the globe.”

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