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Speaker 1: Jersey and Amanda jam Nation.

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Speaker 2: It's a legend in the world of radio, with a

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Speaker 2: voice that has guided countless listeners through the golden eras

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Speaker 2: of music.

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Speaker 1: Rocking around the nation on your favorite station, Welcome back.

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Speaker 1: I I'm Barry Bistile and you're listening to Australia's forty

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Speaker 1: biggest hits on the Nation's biggest countdown of the hits,

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Speaker 1: Take the forty Australia Still to come. On this week's show,

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Speaker 1: this Week's fastest Rising Hit, we'll visit the earliest performances

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Speaker 1: by John Farnham and the Shantusis, and we'll meet some

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Speaker 1: of rock's most outrageous personalities. But first dropping seven places

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Speaker 1: this week the Eurythmics and can.

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Speaker 2: You believe it? Take forty Australia is now forty years

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Speaker 2: of age. Barry Bissel doesn't look a day over thirty nine.

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Speaker 2: How are you, mate?

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Speaker 3: Creat'm to assure you well over thirty nine mate. This

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Speaker 3: is a bit of a reality check seeing that I

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Speaker 3: was thirty seven when we started it so gives you

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Speaker 3: an idea.

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Speaker 2: You know, when I first started in radio, I was

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Speaker 2: at six Ka Kratha on a Sunday night. I don't

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Speaker 2: play Take forty Australia. And this is back when I

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Speaker 2: used to smoke. I'd stand outside the studio having a

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Speaker 2: smoke and I locked myself out of the studio. So

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Speaker 2: Take forty was running, okay, so I'm watching it run,

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Speaker 2: and but I hadn't put the spool lock on the tape,

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Speaker 2: so the tape actually fell off. So it was on

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Speaker 2: the desk just spooling away and I had to run

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Speaker 2: next door to the pub to get the keys to

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Speaker 2: the radio station to come back. And no one noticed

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Speaker 2: that the tape was just spooling around on the It

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Speaker 2: was gathering from the floor into the real, real machine.

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Speaker 2: I still made it through on air bass well.

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Speaker 3: I did the same thing at three of SATs one

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Speaker 3: WHO way back when I first started, and it was

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Speaker 3: back to the Bible, and it didn't when it fell

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Speaker 3: off the spool. It just just took off a rapid speed,

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Speaker 3: very religious episodes.

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Speaker 2: And it was always it was always the pro grand

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Speaker 2: wrecks of the bosses. They always said, make sure you

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Speaker 2: put a spool lock on that spool, and you go, yeah, mate, whatever.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, it's not going.

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Speaker 2: To fall off.

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Speaker 4: Hey Barry, I remember listening to you and you had

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Speaker 4: this special gift of taking the listeners on a journey

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Speaker 4: with the stories behind the hits. Now, there was no

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Speaker 4: Internet and no social media back in the day. Where

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Speaker 4: did you get all your gots? Where'd you get all

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Speaker 4: your info?

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Speaker 3: Well, we had a wonderful writer, Ed Nimobol, who was

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Speaker 3: famous for starting go Set and magazine or writing for

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Speaker 3: ghost Set and started another one Duke magazine. He's no

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Speaker 3: longer with us, but he was just in one of

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Speaker 3: those guys you had just everything in his head about music.

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Speaker 4: Amazing. Can you remember all the stuff now? Like if

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Speaker 4: I if I threw you a trivia question about I

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Speaker 4: don't know Billy Idol's first hit, what could you tell me?

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Speaker 3: No idea great love it day for a wide wedding.

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Speaker 2: It might have been White Wedding. I think that was

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Speaker 2: one of his first ones.

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Speaker 4: But pree pre l.

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Speaker 2: And now we've got at one o'clock today the top

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Speaker 2: ten from the first ever countdown. So what are we

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Speaker 2: talking about? This is nineteen eighty four.

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Speaker 3: Yes, this week in nineteen eighty four.

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Speaker 2: This week in nineteen eighty four.

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Speaker 4: Were there a lot of Australian songs in the top ten?

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Speaker 4: Were there more Australian songs in the top forty back then.

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Speaker 3: No, not so many of the europe riders. Who else

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Speaker 3: in excess?

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Speaker 4: Yeah were there?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, very early in excess, so I think that's about all.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well in excess around that time, nineteen eighty four,

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Speaker 2: it was it was before Kick, but they were well

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Speaker 2: on their way. It was a very exciting time. You

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Speaker 2: written it, shabouchebar, shabouche bar. That was a bit before that.

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Speaker 2: Before I've not been a big radio nerd.

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Speaker 4: No, you being a nerd, that's your job.

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Speaker 3: You written that a big it was. It was the

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Speaker 3: one before Kick, the sen before Seen Yeah, which was

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Speaker 3: a great album.

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Speaker 2: And like really like take for the Australia for me

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Speaker 2: is if you're a radio nerd. It was one of

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Speaker 2: the greatest radio shows in the world and it just

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Speaker 2: lasted for so long. It was such a it was

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Speaker 2: such a great show.

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Speaker 3: It was great Thunderdo. I mean, I learnt a lot

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Speaker 3: getting into edge mine views for writing, but also I

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Speaker 3: got to meet so many amazing people drop sick. There's

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Speaker 3: a lot of movie stars as well as as well

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Speaker 3: as musical artist but and Michael Jackson I met. I

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Speaker 3: didn't unforse I didn't get interview him because Molly had

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Speaker 3: the exclusive for Countdown, but spent some time at Think

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Speaker 3: and it was a nice little boat, nice.

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Speaker 2: Little bloke, nice amazing Michael Jackson. Well but you can

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Speaker 2: hear today at one o'clock the top ten from the

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Speaker 2: first ever Countdown take forty Australia. Thanks to to go

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Speaker 2: over and I'll make sure that I'll put the school

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Speaker 2: lock on, so do the tap does fall on.

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Speaker 3: The ground, please do? Alright guys you.

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Speaker 2: Barry, thank you mate, look after yourself. We'll have that

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Speaker 2: for one o'clock today, Barry Bistle there