Westpac

Throughout the 19th and early 20th century, the Bank opened branches throughout Oceania, at Moreton Bay (Brisbane) in 1850, then in Victoria (1851), New Zealand (1861), South Australia (1877), Western Australia (1883), Fiji (1901), Papua New Guinea (1910) and Tasmania (1910).
. In 1817, the Bank of New South Wales was founded in Sydney as the first bank in Australia.
. This unit offers a wide range of deposit, loan, transaction account and international trade facilities to personal and business customers. The theme is currently a remixed version of the one used between 1991 and 1995 and is composed by Tony Gibber. It is the dominant provider of banking services to small to medium business and is the banker of the New Zealand government. This was replaced in 1986 with "The Wizard", a composition by Paul Hardcastle.

This unit offers a whole range of consumer and corporate services to clients throughout New Zealand. In 1981 an original song 'Yellow Pearl' by Phil Lynott was commissioned as the new theme music. This business offers financial services to the corporate and institutional customer base, helping and advising in the management of cash, funding, capital and market risk for enterprises and institutions in Australia and New Zealand. was used as the show's theme tune for most of the 1970s, and also in a remixed version between 1998 and 2003, although ironically the band never performed on the show. There is also custody and settlement services to institutional customers and fund managers. S. It also includes managed investments, life insurance, superannuation and discount broking. C.

Wealth Management designs, manufactures and services financial products to allow customers to create, manage and protect their wealth. A version of Led Zeppelin's "Whole Lotta Love" by C. This covers the asset accumulation, investment management and life insurance operations in Australia and New Zealand. Mainly this has been performers who disliked the mime format of the show, often as a more effective protest of this rather than just refusing to appear. Investment, superannuation and general and life insurance products are also sold through the branch network. A number of performers have sent up the format in various ways. Westpac is a major home loan provider and also serve the finance needs of business customers with a turnover of up to $20 million. In addition, the creator of the show, Johnnie Stewart, died on April 29, 2005.

This includes deposit taking, transaction accounts, credit cards and other lending. Although the original four presenters are still alive, five presenters of the show have passed away — Stuart Henry, Kenny Everett, occasional presenter Caron Keating, John Peel and Tommy Vance. These five business areas are:. An edited version of the UK show can be seen on BBC Prime, the weekend after UK transmission. Westpac's core businesses consist of five main areas of business, through which serves around 8.2 million customers. It is being planned for a possible Fall 2006 launch. . It is expected to be similar to the 1987 version, but it will also utilize the Billboard magazine music charts, most notably the Hot 100 chart.

The name is derived from the fact its major operations are in the Western Pacific. On January 23, 2006, record producer Lou Pearlman made a deal to bring "Top of the Pops" back to the airwaves in the United States. The bank began life as the Bank of New South Wales in 1817 (making it the oldest bank in Australia), but after various mergers became Westpac in 1982. Viewer interest was gone and the show was taken off BBC America's schedule. Westpac Banking Corporation, usually called Westpac, is the fourth largest bank in Australasia, after the National Australia Bank, Commonwealth Bank and ANZ Bank and one of the largest banks in the South Pacific. BBC America then tinkered with the show by cutting a few minutes out of each show and moving it to a weekday time slot. Westpac sold its operation in Niue to Bank of South Pacific. The network would get the episodes one week after they were transmitted in the UK.

2004: Westpac begins phasing out the Bank of Melbourne brand in Victoria, the Challenge Bank brand in Western Australia and the WestpacTrust brand in New Zealand. In 2002, BBC America presented the BBC version of Top of the Pops as part of their weekend schedule. In Tonga, Bank of Hawaii sold its shares in Bank of Tonga to Westpac, giving Westpac 60% ownership of the bank. The show was presented on late Friday nights and lasted almost a year. Westpac now owns 93.5% of Westpac Bank Samoa and Samoan companies and individuals own 6.5%. It was hosted by Nia Peeples and even showed performances from the BBC version of the programme. Westpac offered Samoan investors, who held the remaining shares, the same price it had paid Bank of Hawaii. In 1987, the CBS television network decided to try an American version of the show.

Bank of Hawaii sold its interest in Pacific Commercial Bank (42.7%) to Westpac, which held an equal portion. Top of the Pops had short-lived fame in the United States. 2001: The government of Kiribati sought to reduce Westpac's share in Bank of Kiribati from 51 to 49%, leading Westpac to sell its shares back to the government. This is aimed at a younger audience as is part of the CBBC Saturday Morning lineup. 1973), respectively. A more recent spin-off is Top of the Pops Reloaded (previously Top of the Pops Saturday), showing on Saturday mornings on BBC One. 1971) and Banque de Polynésie (est. It has been shown on BBC2 since September 1994, although the network's new controller Roly Keating announced in the summer of 2004 that it was being "rested" (repeats, however, continue on the digital channel UKTV G2).

1998: Westpac sold its operations in New Caledonia and Tahiti to Société Générale, which merged them with Société Générale Calédonienne de Banque (est. The BBC have also had a show called TOTP2 which shows archive footage from as early as the 1960s of musicians on earlier Top of the Pops shows. 1997: Westpac acquired the Bank of Melbourne, and subsequently re-branded all Victorian branches as Bank of Melbourne. It now averages around 1.5 million viewers. 1996: Westpac acquired the Trust Bank of New Zealand. Since the move to Sundays, Cotton has continued to host with a different guest presenter each week, such as Rufus Hound or Richard Bacon. Westpac also acquired Western Australia's Challenge Bank, and later adopted the name "Challenge Bank" for all its branches in Western Australia. The show was co-hosted by Reggie Yates and Fearne Cotton until 11th July 2005 every Friday night.

1995: Westpac sold its shares in National Bank of Tuvalu to the government, which now wholly-owns that bank. It was not renewed due to his apparent lack of popularity with TV viewers. 1992: Westpac recorded a 1.6 billion dollar loss, which at the time, was the largest loss for an Australian corporation. The new show was hosted by MTV presenter Tim Kash until his contract expired in August 2004. In both places Indochine functioned as the bank of issue until 1966-7.). In a break with the previous format, the show is to play more up-and-coming tracks ahead of any chart success, and also to feature interviews with artists. (Banque de l'Indochine, which later merged into Banque Indosuez, had established itself in New Caledonia in 1888 and in Papeete, Tahiti in 1905. In November 2003, the show was radically overhauled in what has been widely reported as a make-or-break attempt to revitalise the long-running series.

Westpac bought Banque Indosuez's operations in New Caledonia and Tahiti. While this resulted in some of the show's best performances — notably Kurt Cobain's singing on "Smells Like Teen Spirit" — it also exposed a number of poor live singers, and was dropped as a general rule. 1990: Bank of New Zealand sold half its shares in Bank of Tonga to Westpac and half to Bank of Hawaii, giving each of them 30%. For a few years from 1991 the show adopted a live vocal to pre-recorded backing track policy. Westpac also acquired HSBC's operations in Fiji and the New Hebrides. Acts performing on the show have traditionally mimed to a pre-recorded track and this accounts for a number of performers who never appeared on the show due to a resistance to mime. 1988: Westpac acquired the European Pacific Banking Corporation in the Cook Islands and a HSBC subsidiary, the Solomon Islands Banking Corporation, which HSBC had established as a branch in 1973. In its heyday during the glam rock era of the early 1970s, the show featured the tightly choreographed dance troupe Pan's People (later succeeded by Legs & Co.), something which has been widely imitated on similar shows ever since.

1987: Westpac established a branch in Niue that is the only bank in that country. The show has historically been closely associated with the BBC radio station Radio 1, usually being presented by DJs from the station (although from October 1991 to January 1994 no Radio 1 DJs presented the show, and the association has not been as close as it once was). 1981) in Tuvalu (ex-Ellice Islands), taking 40% of the shares as well as a 10-year management contract. It celebrated its 2000th show in 2002. 1985: Westpac replaced Barclays Bank in the National Bank of Tuvalu (est. This chart show has seen many changes through the decades: in style, design, fashion and taste. Bank of Kiribati also fulfilled the functions of a reserve or central bank. The first edition on BBC Two was broadcast on 17 July 2005 at 7pm.

1984: The original agreement between BNSW and the government in the Gilbert and Ellice Islands expired and Westpac and the government of Kiribati formed Bank of Kiribati Ltd as a 51%-49% joint venture. However, it was insisted that the move was in fact so that the show would air immediately after the official announcement of the new top 40 chart on Radio 1, as it was thought that by the following Friday, the chart seemed out-of-date. 1982: BNSW merged with Commercial Bank of Australia to form Westpac Banking Corporation ("Westpac" being a conjugation of "West Pacific"). This move has been widely reported as a final "sidelining" of the show, and perhaps a move towards cancelling it altogether. 1969), in which Bank of Hawaii had had an ownership interest since 1971. By November 2004, viewing figures had plummeted to below three million, prompting announcement by the BBC that the show was going to move again to Sunday evenings on BBC Two, thus losing its prime-time slot on BBC One which it had maintained for forty years.[2]. 1977: BNSW formed Pacific Commercial Bank Ltd, in Samoa in a joint venture with Bank of Hawaii, by buying into Pacific Savings and Loan Company (est. It was traditionally shown on a Thursday night, but was moved to a Friday in 1996, a change which caused some controversy.

1975: It incorporated its local business in Papua New Guinea as Bank of New South Wales (PNG) Ltd. During its heyday in the 1970s, it attracted 15 million viewers each week [1]. 1974: The Bank of New Zealand (20%), Westpac (20%), Bank of Hawaii (20%), and the Government of Tonga (40%) established The Bank of Tonga as a joint venture. It was originally intended to have only a few programmes but has been going for over 40 years. 1971: It established a branch in the New Hebrides(now Vanuatu). Over 2000 episodes have been shown over the years; and the act that has appeared in the most episodes is the British rock band, Status Quo. 1970: It established a branch on Tarawa in Kiribati (ex-Gilbert Islands), which also took over the government savings bank. Savile rotated with three other presenters: Alan Freeman, Pete Murray and David Jacobs.

It resumed operations in 1946. DJ Jimmy Savile presented the first show, which featured (in order) The Rolling Stones with "I Wanna Be Your Man'", Dusty Springfield with "I Only Want to be With You", the Dave Clark Five with "Glad All Over", The Hollies with "Stay", The Swinging Blue Jeans with "The Hippy Hippy Shake" and The Beatles with "I Want to Hold Your Hand", that week's number one. 1942: BNSW suspended operations in Papua New Guinea as the Japanese Army captured many of the towns in which it had branches and agencies, and bombed Port Moresby. Top of the Pops began on New Year's Day 1964 in a studio set in a disused church in Manchester. 1931: It acquired the Australian Bank of Commerce, which had branches in both New South Wales and Queensland. . 1927: BNSW acquired the Western Australian Bank. Each programme consists of half an hour of performances of some of that week's best-selling popular music.

Top of the Pops is a long-running British music chart television programme shown each week on BBC Two and now licensed for local versions around the world. The New Jersey power pop band The Smithereens recorded a song entitled "Top of the Pops" on their album "Blow Up.". Akira the Don's single, 'Living in the Future'. The song "Formed a Band" by Art Brut includes in its lyrics, "We’re gonna write a song as universal as happy Birthday, that makes sure everybody knows that everything is going to be OK, we’re going to take that song and we’re going to play it 8 weeks in a row on Top of the Pops." In their song "Bad Weekend," the band also sings, "sometimes it's hard to stop when your heart is set on Top of the Pops, Top of the Pops." Art Brut Lyrics.

"Me Plus One" by Anne Lilia Berge Strand or more commonly Annie. Rat Trap by The Boomtown Rats. A song entitled "Top of the Pops" appeared on the Kinks album, Lola versus Powerman and the Moneygoround, Part One. "C-30 C-60 C-90 GO!", originally by Bow Wow Wow and covered by Seattle, WA band Pretty Girls Make Graves.

The Scottish punk band The Rezillos lampooned the show as a vehicle for vapid commercialism and for paying little or no attention to talented, unknown bands, in their song "Top of the Pops." Ironically the band actually ended up performing the song on the programme (twice) when it entered the charts — it would appear the producers misunderstood the song's lyrics and thought it was an affectionate tribute. Possibly because of this, his next appearance as presenter wasn't until 1982. When John Peel first presented the programme in 1968 he forgot the name of Amen Corner who were appearing that week. When Elvis Costello performed "Radio Radio" on the show, he changed the lyrics to criticise Tony Blackburn who was the presenter that week.

Because of the BBC's former policy of deleting old programmes, nearly all of the episodes from the first ten years of the programme's history have been lost, including all of The Beatles' appearances. Super Furry Animals once got the whole audience to sit down during a live performance of theirs. In 1980, the then fledgling heavy metal superstars Iron Maiden became the first band to play live on the show since The Who in 1972, when they refused to mime to their single "Running Free". It noticeably had Victoria Beckham promote her new song "This Groove", with a performance 7 times in the first 8 shows, including the (pre-recorded) Christmas special.

The show's relaunch with Andi Peters as producer was widely considered the point where Top Of The Pops was Jumping The Shark. The most complaints the show recieved for a single episode was in 1994 when Manic Street Preachers performed their song "Faster" in a manner that was seen as intimidating and featured lead singer James Dean Bradfield wearing a balaclava such as would be worn by an IRA terrorist. Cliff Richard has performed the most on Top Of The Pops, recording over 150 performances. The shortest performance was Super Furry Animals with Do or Die clocking in at 95 seconds.

As of November 2005, the longest performance was of Green Day's Jesus Of Suburbia lasting 9 minutes. "I'm miming"!. The lyric he did not mime to was .. Fish, the face painted lead singer of early 1980s prog rockers Marillion, made sure that the cameras caught a close up of his firmly closed mouth during a particular section of their single Punch and Judy.

Singer Les Gray of Mud went on stage to perform with a ventriloquist dummy during the performance of Lonely this Christmas and had the dummy lip-synch to the voice-over in the middle of the song. This performance has been taken to heart by Nirvana fans, who affectionately refer to it as "Teen Gothic". For this performance Cobain was trusted to sing live vocals to a pre-recorded backing track: instead, he sang in a low, mournful wail; he was later to claim this was his attempt to sound like Morrissey. In grunge band Nirvana's only performance on Top of the Pops, frontman Kurt Cobain "played" his guitar with his fingers inches away from the frets, drummer Dave Grohl danced around in his seat for most of the performance, and bassist Krist Novoselic waved his instrument around his head.

Faith No More lead singer Mike Patton also showed he was obviously miming a performance by sticking his tongue out of the side of his mouth during closeup shots. In a 2005 performance of "Lyla", Liam Gallagher made no secret of the fact that he was miming his lyrics by walking away from the microphone and chewing gum when he was supposed to be singing. The performance of "Do They Know It's Christmas?" witnessed the unlikely scene of Paul Weller lip-syncing to Bono's vocals. For the 1984 Christmas Day edition all of the performers from Band Aid had been booked to appear apart from Bono.

The set ended with the band erupting in laughter at the Gallagher's impressions of each other. It also mocked the habit people had in Oasis' early years of confusing the brothers, not being able to tell them apart. In 1995 Oasis played their single "Roll With It" featuring singer Liam Gallagher pretending to play guitar, while guitarist Noel Gallagher pretended to sing, just to show how fake the 'live' performance was. Despite this, to this day, many TV nostalgia shows and other sources still claim this was an error.

This was a deliberate joke by the band and the production staff, but many people (including, apparently, host David Jensen) didn't realise this and thought it was a genuine mistake. While performing their 1982 hit "Jackie Wilson Said" the band Dexy's Midnight Runners were seen performing in front of a projection of the darts player Jocky Wilson.