Popular ’80s Adelaide radio personality Trevor Smith – ‘The Rock and Roll Roadie’, has passed away. A former record company rep he got a gig as radio’s ‘rock and roll roadie’ on SAFM Adelaide and then joined the Triple M Adelaide breakfast team.

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Popular ’80s Adelaide radio personality Trevor Smith – ‘The Rock and Roll Roadie’, has passed away. A former record company rep he got a gig as radio’s ‘rock and roll roadie’ on SAFM Adelaide and then joined the Triple M Adelaide breakfast team.
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Melbourne radio station RSN 927 has announced: “It is with great sadness we announce the passing of Father Gerard Dowling. He’s been a cornerstone of broadcasting in Melbourne for 50 years and has been heard on racing radio all that time. Father Dowling started hosting the Family Counsellor program on 3UZ in 1973.” Dowling turned 91 in 2023.
I new Trevor back in the late 70s. I lived next door to him and his family with wife Judy, kids Matt and Cobi (who I used to baby sit) at Dover Gardens, Adelaide. Back then he was a Rep with RCA Records and I was given a good supply of records to listen to, I still have most of them. He shared stories of meeting and spending time with famous artists such as Rod Stewart. I then caught up with Trevor in the early 90s when he was with SAFM as their Rock n Roll Roadie, he pulled up in the van outside my workplace and was I on air for a split second with him. Condolences to his family.