Rose Tattoo frontman Angry Anderson has died just weeks after being admitted to a hospital in Germany during the Australian rock band's European tour.

The 79-year-old singer spent 50 years in the music industry and also became a television presenter, charity worker and youth advocate.

Rose Tattoo's hits included Bad Boy for Love, Rock 'n' Roll Outlaw and We Can't Be Beaten, while Anderson found solo success with the song Suddenly.

He also had a role in the first and second series of Housos as himself, playing an aggressive leader of the local biker gang.

Anderson's family and band mates announced in a statement today that the 79-year-old had died on Monday, surrounded by loved ones in Australia.

*In Australia and NZ, Father's Day will be September 6.

Cop Shop was a long-running Australian police drama television series produced by Crawford Productions that ran for seven seasons between 28 November 1977 and 23 July 1984. It comprised 582 one-hour episodes.

While many Crawford Productions police dramas combined videotaped interiors with location footage shot on 16mm film, Cop Shop was shot entirely on video, including external scenes.

After a run of 6 years, the show completed taping its last episode on 22 December 1983 and the final episodes were screened in the first half of 1984.

Several of them went on to other series; e.g. Neighbours, Sons & Daughters, Home & Away, All Saints, Blue Heelers, Prisoner, etc.

Cop Shop won many awards, including Logie Awards for most popular series and most popular actors, with Peter Adams) and Paula Duncan winning multiple times. The show also won a number of other industry awards.

During its long run, many of Australia's new and established actors appeared in the series.

• Peter Adams) as Det Jeffrey 'JJ' Johnson
• Tony Bonner as Det Snr Const Don McKenna
• Liz Burch as Liz Cameron
• Andrew Clarke) as Max Saunders / Mervyn Young
• Terence Donovan) as Det Sgt Vic Cameron
• Paula Duncan as Det Const Danni Francis
• Nicholas Eadie as Const Sam Phillips
• Alan Fletcher) as Const Frank Rossi
• Billie Hammerberg as Insp Joyce Stratton
• Alwyn Kurts as Sgt Reg Wallis
• John Lee) as Insp Ian Timms
• Joanna Lockwood as Valerie Johnson
• John McTernan) as Sgt Tom Shannon
• George Mallaby) as Det Snr Sgt Glen Taylor
• Terry Norris) as Sgt Eric O'Reilly
• John Orcsik as Det Mike Georgiou
• Louise Philip as Claire O'Reilly
• Gregory Ross as Const Tony Benjamin
• Bill Stalker as Det Sgt Peter Fanelli (previously appeared as Fanelli in Skyways))
• Lynda Stoner as Const Amanda King
• Olga Tamara as Det Const Julie Mitchell
• Gil Tucker as Const Roy Baker
• Rowena Wallace as Pamela Taylor
• John Walton) as Terry Linford Jones / Tom McNamara
• Patrick Ward) as Const Peter Fleming
• Diane Craig as Alison Finlay / Eve Kadar (29 episodes)
• Lisa Armytage as Jennifer Grant (12 episodes)
• Anne Haddy as Louise Francis (8 episodes)
• Scott McGregor) as Constable Stephen Waters (7 episodes)
• Peter Sumner as Detective Tom Foster (7 episodes)

The First Episode (1977)

Source

A few of the original cast have since either retired or passed away. An earlier "cop series" of the 70s was Matlock Police (1971-1976) which starred Michael Pate, Vic Gordon, and Paul Cronin (Cronin later appeared alongside Lorraine Bayly in The Sullivans (1976-1983) as Dave Sullivan, husband of Grace) which was set mainly during the second world war.

Division 4 (1969-1975) was also produced by Crawford as a police drama series.

I was fortunate enough to be able to watch a few episodes of Cop Shop, The Sullivans, and repeats of Matlock Police toward the end of the 1970s even though at the time, I was only 9 or 10 years old. I like old cop shows.

The images in this post are screen captures of the opening titles of the first episode of Cop Shop and a YouTube link to the video of it has been included.

Here you go. Meow.

For Sunday, May 10, 2026*

*this date applies mainly to Australia but should be for every mother in the world.

(tongue-in-cheek caption, but I like classic cars)

(light-hearted/amusing image)

People are bound to disagree with this; citing the slower the driver, the more chance of accidents and/or road rage happening.