John Laws Biography
John Laws is a radio announcer from Australia. He hosted an Australian morning radio show incorporating music, interviews, discussion, live advertisement readings, and listener talkback for 50 years, until 2007. He was dubbed “the Golden Tonsils” because of his unusual voice. Although he was technically retired between 2007 and 2011, he returned to conduct a morning show on 2SM and the Super Radio Network in February 2011.
How old is John Laws? – Age
He is 87 years old as of 8 August 2022. He was born in 1935 in Wau, Papua New Guinea. His real name is Richard John Sinclair Laws.
John Laws Family – Education
Laws, who was born in Wau, Papua New Guinea, to Australian parents, got polio twice as a kid and again as a young man. In Sydney, New South Wales, he attended Mosman Preparatory School and Knox Grammar School.
John Laws Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $20 Million.
John Laws 2UE
He began his career in radio in 1953 at 3BO in Bendigo. He then worked at several rural radio stations before joining 2UE in 1957 for the first of four terms. During that time, he became one of the first Australian disc jockeys to play rock ‘n’ roll music, along with Bob Rogers, Tony Withers, and Stan Rofe. Laws was the first to use his contacts in the airline industry to get him the most recent international pop records, which Rofe soon adopted. This gave him an advantage when Australian releases of many British and American pop records could be delayed for months.
Regulations left 2UE in 1959 and moved to the Tracker Locale, where he ran a homestead. In 1962 he moved back to Sydney, where he joined 2GB, staying with the station for quite some time before he rejoined 2UE in 1964. He worked at 2UE until 1969 when he was transferred to 2UW, where he would work for almost ten years. He got back to 2UE in 1979, this time for an additional five years.
After a well-publicized bid for his services, he then moved to 2GB, but he returned to 2UE when the station was ranked eighth in the ratings. The return of Laws was primarily responsible for the station’s rise to prominence in Sydney for a number of years. Laws’ nationally syndicated radio show was particularly popular in rural areas. Capital city stations taking Regulations incorporate 4BC in Brisbane, 2CC in Canberra, 101.7 HOFM in Hobart, and Blend 1049 in Darwin.
John Laws House
Laws sold a property investment in the Woolloomooloo Finger Wharf that he had had for a long time. Yet, it isn’t the two story prize loft held by Regulations and his significant other Caroline since they took the action from Sovereign Road, Woollahra.
The repetitive speculation — a condo, vehicle space and valued marina billet — was auctioned off market for $2.9 million. In 1997, the investment cost $660,000, and in 2006, the berth cost $340,000. The sale of their six-bedroom, eight-bathroom home, which was previously known as Petersham Fire Station, netted them more than $7 million recently. After the wharf was saved from demolition in the early 1990s, the Hunters Hill property developer Lang Walker completed the finger wharf apartments in the early 2000s.
Worked somewhere in the range of 1910 and 1914, the wharf, at 401 meters in length, is the longest lumber heaped wharf on the planet. Laws, who has owned the wharf since it was converted into apartments in the early days, has been less frequent at its restaurants for lunch and dinner. However, for a time, Maurice Terzini, the restaurant’s owner, always prepared his table at Otto.
John Laws Books
Laws has written a number of publications, several of which are poetry collections. In 1970, he claimed to have been reading Rod McKuen’s poems on the air, but when he realized he had left his copy of McKuen’s book at home, he instead read a poem of his own and “it seemed to go over pretty well.” Poems that Came to Me in the Night When No One Else Would was the working title for his debut book. In 1996, A John Laws Limited Edition reissued his Book of Irreverent Logic and Book of Uncommon Sense together. His most recent publication is a memoir.
John Laws TV Shows
Laws, who is best known as a radio host, has also served as a television host and panelist. His early 1960s show Startime helped to introduce Edna Everage to mainstream Australia, at a time when Laws described Everage as a “very close friend of mine.” In 1970, Laws told columnist Valda Marshall that he was “not basically a TV star” and didn’t “feel entirely happy with the medium.” In 1969, he was a judge on Australia’s New Faces, and in 1970, he took over as host of the panel discussion show Beauty and the Beast from Noel Ferrier. Laws resigned in 1971, claiming that he had sought for a larger salary from the channel that produced the show, Channel 7.
In 1970, he also starred on television in the children’s drama Skippy. In May 1971, he began hosting His and Hers, a midday show. He hosted a reimagined Beauty and the Beast for Network 10 in 1982. In 1998, Network Ten aired John Laws – In One Lifetime, and Foxtel aired LAWS. While LAWS lasted until 2000, John Laws – In One Lifetime was cancelled after two episodes, while the remaining five episodes commissioned by Network 10 broadcast later that year.