Red Symons (born June 13, 1949 in Brighton, England) is an Australian musician, writer, and radio host, probably best known as lead guitarist with the Skyhooks and as the snide judge of "Red Faces", a The Gong Show-esque segment of the long-running Hey Hey It's Saturday variety television show. He currently hosts 774 ABC Melbourne's breakfast show. June 13 is the 164th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (165th in leap years), with 201 days remaining. ... 1949 (MCMXLIX) is a common year starting on Saturday. ... This article is about the English city; for other places called Brighton, see Brighton (disambiguation). ... Skyhooks was an Australian rock band of the 1970s, sometimes classified as a glam rock band, althugh this is mainly the result of the bands flamboyant costumes and makeup. ... The Gong Show was a television variety show/game show spoof that was broadcast in first-run syndication in the United States from 1976 until 1980. ... Hey Hey Its Saturday was a long running variety television program on Australian television. ... A variety show is a show with a variety of acts, often including music and comedy skits, especially on television. ... The 3LO radio station began transmission in October 1924 as Melbournes second radio station, behind 3AR. The callsign LO was taken from a London radio station, 2LO. In 1932, 3LO and 3AR were among the first twelve radio stations to come under the ABC. Then in 1942, 3LO and...

Born in England, he emigrated to Australia (on the same boat as the members of the Bee Gees) as a child in 1958. He went to Upwey High School in Victoria. Symons trained as a mathematician and computer scientist before joining seminal Australian rock band Skyhooks as a guitarist in the 1970s. He also worked in the theatre as a musical director for several organisations, including the Pram Factory, a famous 1970s Melbourne theatre group. The Bee Gees: Maurice, Barry and Robin The Bee Gees were a British and Australian band, originally a pop singer-songwriter combination, reborn as funk and disco. ... A mathematician is a person whose primary area of study and research is mathematics. ... Computer science (informally: CS or compsci) is, in its most general sense, the study of computation and information processing, both in hardware and in software. ... Skyhooks was an Australian rock band of the 1970s, sometimes classified as a glam rock band, althugh this is mainly the result of the bands flamboyant costumes and makeup. ... The 1970s decade refers to the years from 1970 to 1979, inclusive. ...

Through the 1980s and 1990s, he combined his on-air role on Hey Hey (also playing in the house band) with composing for various film and television shows, and jingle writing. The 1980s decade refers to the years from 1980 to 1989, inclusive. ... The 1990s decade refers to the years from 1990 to 1999, inclusive. ...

When the show was finally axed in 1999, he began writing for The Age newspaper and appearing in a weekly spot on ABC radio Melbourne. At one point he filled in on the breakfast program for that station, where he was such a success that he was retained permanently in that slot. The Age is a broadsheet daily newspaper, which has been published in Melbourne, Australia since 1854. ... The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) is Australias national non-commercial public broadcaster. ...

In February 2002, Symons hosted the game show flop Shafted, which was cancelled in April of the same year. He has also appeared in a television commercial for anti-viral medicine. For the Cusco album, see 2002 (album). ... Shafted was a British quiz show on ITV1, presented by Robert Kilroy-Silk. ...

Symons' on-camera persona is a smart-alec killjoy, which he really only adopted after becoming the third judge on "Red Faces". He is very intelligent, and in a made-for-television Australian national IQ test, he tested higher than any of the other celebrities.

In October 2005, Symons competed in and won the "Celebrity Family Ties" special on Temptation alongside his wife Elly. He also competed in the Ten Network's Australia's Brainiest Comedian in November 2005 where he came third and Australia's Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? in 2004. For detailed info on the United States versions, see Sale of the Century (US). ... Ten Network logo Network TEN so called because it broadcasts on Channel TEN in most cities, is Australias third but possibly most profitable television network. ... Logo from the UK version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?. Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? is a television game show which offers very large cash prizes for correctly answering successive multiple-choice questions of increasing difficulty. ...

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