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Speaker 1: Delving deep into the archives of Perth music history.

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Speaker 2: Crazies Tragic Music Box, you are for it?

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Speaker 1: Oh hey, let's jump in, shall we Today's Tragic Music

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Speaker 1: Box leases from a great year nineteen eighty five? Okay,

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Speaker 1: let's start with some numbers, as I love to do

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Speaker 1: because I'm a nerd. Nineteen eighty five, the world's population

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Speaker 1: was around four point eight billion people. Okay, Today we

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Speaker 1: have just over eight point one billion.

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Speaker 2: Wow. Scary, that's a lot in just thirty nine years.

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Speaker 1: I hope in thirty nine years we're not trying to

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Speaker 1: squeeze over fifteen billion in me wrong. Here in Australia

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Speaker 1: in eighty five we have just under sixteen million. It's

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Speaker 1: now approaching twenty seven million. Gosh yep. Future stars born

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Speaker 1: in nineteen eighty five include actresses Kira Knightley and Cary Mulligan,

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Speaker 1: singer Bruno Mars, Portuguese soccer superstar Cristiano Ronaldo, and Eagles

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Speaker 1: Brownlow medalist Matt Pritis. Wow I doing Sorrento dun Craignia

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Speaker 1: footy club. Proud, wasn't he? He won almost every medal?

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Speaker 1: Let Blow brown Low, the sandover all the rest of it.

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Speaker 1: Sube premierships, just not an Eagles press and one of

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Speaker 1: the most beautiful heads of hair to have a grace

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Speaker 1: of football field. Lovely man too. The top boobies of

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Speaker 1: eighty five Lease included the Goonies. A lot of people

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Speaker 1: have real fond memories of the Goonies. Never did it

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Speaker 1: for me, but a lot of people do. Back to

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Speaker 1: the future, it was massive Beverly Hills cop with Eddie

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Speaker 1: Murphy doing that weird laughing. Yeah, that was and that

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Speaker 1: are the judd reyin hold Big starf Chevy Chase as

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Speaker 1: Clark Griswold in National Lampoon's European Vacation.

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Speaker 2: I guess what we do is just drive around the circle.

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Speaker 2: Gear should be the second left. Excite. Hey, Loo, kids,

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Speaker 2: you're a big bang.

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Speaker 1: I know I can't see if you get over and left, Johnny,

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Speaker 1: I'll try next time.

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Speaker 2: Sorry, we'll get out of this jam in a minute.

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Speaker 1: Kids, big then again again one of the most infuriating

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Speaker 1: but funny scenes.

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Speaker 2: Not a roundabout like that.

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Speaker 1: He just couldn't get to the other lanes. Kidding Clark

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Speaker 1: as well. Here at home in eighty five, at least

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Speaker 1: the Whacker lights were installed. If you read the paper,

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Speaker 1: if you were either a copy of the paper. My

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Speaker 1: mum used to read it front of the back end,

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Speaker 1: went to talk the paper.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and they raced to the breaths, see how many

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Speaker 2: friends and do well. My grandmother would always read that

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Speaker 2: first as you go, so weird excited.

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Speaker 1: But when they turned to that first, even before the sport,

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Speaker 1: I never got it. But yeah, the copy of the

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Speaker 1: West the paper was forty cents back then. Oh my god,

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Speaker 1: I want to read Susanna Carr joined the seven US team,

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Speaker 1: switching from the ABC. Wow, what a big moment that was.

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Speaker 1: And also in eighty five, a baby faced spunk named

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Speaker 1: Lisa Shaw was working behind the bar. She was mint

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Speaker 1: at Burrswood for the opening night of the new multi

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Speaker 1: million dollar casino.

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Speaker 2: You will shaky hand. Sure they called me. Everyone wanted

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Speaker 2: me to poor a drink. I wouldn't have been spreading

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Speaker 2: that name around. Mind you up.

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Speaker 1: More customers, mind you In the first the first one

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Speaker 1: hundred and twenty days of the casino, they've got a

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Speaker 1: million people and five hundred thousand US for shaking hand

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Speaker 1: Touring acts to reach Perth and ninety five included Spandau

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Speaker 1: Ballet on their parade tour saw that gig. The models

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Speaker 1: were here with I'm Talking and joined by Perth's favorite

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Speaker 1: musical mullets, Vikapri at the Entertainment Center because Vicka Pri

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Speaker 1: were huge at the time. They were, and the incredible

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Speaker 1: Teina Turner came for two unforgettable nights just before Christmas.

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Speaker 2: The second of those Christmas Eve, I was at that.

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Speaker 1: What a gig, so good at least today to wrap

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Speaker 1: up our sacks gun Oh yeah, here's sexy on he

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Speaker 1: hey his shirt off?

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Speaker 2: He lost boys.

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Speaker 1: Schwarzenegger to wrap our eighty five fest this morning on

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Speaker 1: a zero in on New York band Talking Heads in

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Speaker 1: this six six studio album Little Creatures.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I love this album and I'm not alone right,

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Speaker 2: released in June of eighty five.

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Speaker 1: Little Creatures followed the incredible success Stop Making Sense the

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Speaker 1: live album from the movie are the same name.

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Speaker 2: So they were writing high, weren't they.

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Speaker 1: It saw Talking Heads become a major charting band without

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Speaker 1: losing their quirkiness and style that we loved, and they'd

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Speaker 1: set them apart from so many mid eighties acts because

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Speaker 1: there was a lot of big names around, but a

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Speaker 1: lot of the music was very safe at the time,

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Speaker 1: blending pop rock and country styles. Little Creatures featured plenty

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Speaker 1: of quirky lyrics, lashings of steel guitar and a sense

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Speaker 1: of fun, and of course those songs, the hit singles

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Speaker 1: Wrote to Nowhere and She Was and the Lady Don't

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Speaker 1: Mind helped it become the Head's biggest selling studio album today. Singles,

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Speaker 1: aside songs like Television Man, I Love Television Man and

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Speaker 1: the pure country harmonies of Creatures of Love quickly became

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Speaker 1: fan favorites, and only David Byrne would get away with

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Speaker 1: the lyrics cute cute little baby, little peepy little toes,

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Speaker 1: the songs stay up Late, get Over It now so bizarre,

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Speaker 1: but I always found it wonderfully weird, a song about

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Speaker 1: a baby, and in the middle he goes, I know

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Speaker 1: you want to leave me?

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Speaker 2: Turned a bit sinister of that great song.

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Speaker 1: But what a tonic least for our winter of eighty

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Speaker 1: five to have talking heads search greape form the tragic

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Speaker 1: music blocks from nineteen eighty five