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Arnold Frolows (15 January 1950 – 12 January 2025) was an Australian radio personality best known as music director at the Australian radio station
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Life and career

Frolows started his career in music in 1970, as a manager of Virgin record stores in London. After returning to Australia in late 1974 he was hired as one of the foundation staff of Double Jay in Sydney, which began broadcasting in January 1975. He managed the record library and programming of the station. He temporarily returned to the United Kingdom where he was, among other things, head of A&R, at Virgin Records UK. In 1983, he re-joined triple j, where he took on the role of
music director A music director, musical director or director of music is a person responsible for the musical aspects of a performance, production, or organization. This would include the artistic director and usually chief conductor of an orchestra or concert ...
, a position that he held until his retirement from the station in 2003. During this time he also hosted ''Ambience'', a program focussing on
ambient music Ambient music is a genre of music that emphasizes Musical tone, tone and atmosphere over traditional Musical form, musical structure or rhythm. Often "peaceful" sounding and lacking Musical composition, composition, beat, and/or structured melod ...
until the late 1980s. During his last few years at the station, he was criticised in the music media as being "too old" to work at a youth station. After leaving Triple J, Frolows remained with the
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to become a programmer for the new digital radio station
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, then music director at ABC JAZZ. Frolows died at Mona Vale Hospice in Sydney, on 12 January 2025, at the age of 74, less than a month after having been diagnosed with pancreatic and liver cancer.


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