"Q" - Travel studio books Victoria, ACDC via Travel TV - Part 2

...It's a long way to the satirical top !
The pilot and passengers of the Beach B-200 Super King plane walked away unscathed after circling the airport for four hours to burn fuel in case the landing went wrong.
Aside from the pilot's incredible skill, the most surprising aspect of the incident is that it didn't involve a Boeing.Sources: 9 News
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When someone goes on a trip, he has something to tell-we doesn't like the checkered tour guides. He can't see them-I can hear them.
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"Waltzing Matilda" is Australia's best-known bush ballad and has been described as the country's "unofficial national anthem".
The title was Australian slang for traveling on foot (waltz, derived from the German auf der Walz) with one's belongings in a "matilda" (swag) slung over one's back. The song tells the story of an itinerant laborer or "swagman" who prepares a sip of billy tea at a bush camp and catches a jumbok (sheep) to eat. When the owner of the sheep, a squatter, arrives with three policemen to arrest the swagman for the theft, he commits suicide by drowning himself in a nearby billabong (waterhole), whereupon his ghost haunts the grounds.
The original text was written in 1895 by the Australian poet Banjo Paterson and first published as sheet music in 1903. Extensive folklore surrounds the song and the process of its creation, so much so that it has its own museum, the Waltzing Matilda Centre in Winton, Queensland, where Paterson wrote the lyrics. To remind Australians of the song's significance, Winton organized the first Waltzing Matilda Day in 2012, which took place on April 6, the anniversary of its first performance.
The song was first recorded in 1926 by John Collinson and Russell Callow. In 2008, this recording of "Waltzing Matilda" was added to the Sounds of Australia register in the National Film and Sound Archive, which states that there are more recordings of "Waltzing Matilda" than any other Australian song.
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It’s a Long Way to the Top
… Ridin' down the highway
Goin' to a show
Stop in all the byways
Playin' rock 'n' roll
Gettin' robbed
Gettin' stoned
Gettin' beat up
Broken-boned
Gettin' had
Gettin' took
I tell you, folks
It's harder than it looks
… It's a long way to the top if you wanna rock 'n' roll
It's a long way to the top if you wanna rock 'n' roll
… If you think it's easy doin' one night stands
Try playin' in a rock roll band
It's a long way to the top if you wanna rock 'n' roll
… Hotel, motel
Make you wanna cry
Ladies do the hard sell
Know the reason why
Gettin' old
Gettin' grey
Gettin' ripped off
Underpaid
Gettin' sold
Second hand
That's how it goes
Playin' in a band
… It's a long way to the top if you wanna rock 'n' roll
It's a long way to the top if you wanna rock 'n' roll
… If you wanna be a star of stage and screen
Look out, it's rough and mean
… It's a long way to the top if you wanna rock 'n' roll
It's a long way to the top if you wanna rock 'n' roll
… It's a long way to the top if you wanna rock 'n' roll
It's a long way to the top if you wanna rock 'n' roll
… Well it's a long way
Well it's a long way, you should've told me
It's a long way
Such a long way
Songwriter: Ronald Belford Scott / Angus Young / Malcolm Young
1975
The music video for "It's a Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna Rock 'n' Roll)", was filmed on 23 February 1976 for the Australian music television program Countdown. It featured the band and the members of the Rats of Tobruk Pipe band on the back of a flatbed truck travelling on Swanston Street in Melbourne. Thanks for watching!