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Speaker 1: Delving deep into the malarchives of Perth music history, Crazies,

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Speaker 1: Tragic Music Box.

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Speaker 2: The whack a Whacker. The year, as I mentioned, was

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Speaker 2: nineteen eighty eight. Hey, I'll complain to the youtro again.

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Speaker 2: If you're like I wanted to be by Ringtite, all right,

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Speaker 2: we can organize that. We'll organize it.

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Speaker 3: I've also organized something else for you because it was

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Speaker 3: nineteen eighty eight and it was the year of Australia's

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Speaker 3: bi centennial celebrations and this is for you.

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Speaker 1: Celebration, celebration of the nation.

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Speaker 2: Just make it great in eighty eight.

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Speaker 3: History.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it was pretty bad. More you're clapping along.

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Speaker 3: And when I saw the video of that song, which

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Speaker 3: is Rick Price before he was Rick Prized, before he's famous.

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Speaker 3: And the girl Karen, Karen Minchell apparently she was in Euphoria,

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Speaker 3: the dance band, but this is before they became famous.

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Speaker 2: When they took them out of it on the newsreaders,

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Speaker 2: So funny was going to die and you in the crowd.

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Speaker 3: There was Bill Peach, and there was John John Yucan

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Speaker 3: was there and Paul Cron and oh god, that's funny.

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Speaker 3: You wouldn't do it now, you wouldn't do the celebration

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Speaker 3: of a nation thing, but there's a lot of noise

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Speaker 3: in color for the Bison Tenna. It was big to

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Speaker 3: the toy shop in eighty eight. The Atari twenty six

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Speaker 3: hundred console was the hot item for late eighties gamers.

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Speaker 3: Stick the game way, Yeah, you stick the game cartridge

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Speaker 3: in and you play, and you could play pac Man Combat,

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Speaker 3: Space Invaders and a game of Spaces and Demon Attack

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Speaker 3: was a big one as well.

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Speaker 2: I love Space. I'll find you a cartridge. Yeah, I know.

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Speaker 3: It moved on from Tennis, hadn't it. The party Pink

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Speaker 3: Barbie was huge. Magna Doodle, which sounds odd, was the fresh,

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Speaker 3: the sorry, the free mess magnetic game of art. You know,

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Speaker 3: like they could get the drawing and stuff like that

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Speaker 3: and then you just get the bit of plasting and

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Speaker 3: it was the.

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Speaker 2: Board was clear and that when we're doing pol John Hat, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: we could have many, many times. And Young Doodle to

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Speaker 2: draw people's labradod yeah exactly, yeah.

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Speaker 3: Nice And the Young Talent team from Young Talent Time

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Speaker 3: had a board game right, including a cassette. Yeah, and

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Speaker 3: it was one of the biggest sellers of early eight

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Speaker 3: had a cassette pre recorded by Johnny Young and the

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Speaker 3: Young Talent Time kids and I had to play this

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Speaker 3: for you.

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Speaker 2: Least close and nothing. Yeah, that's yeah, game over. Thanks

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Speaker 2: John Legend. You don't have Johnny Bowles. Did it even happen?

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Speaker 3: Johnny Bowles Little Tiny Tina Arena. Lots of change happened

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Speaker 3: in Perth in nineteen eighty eight. It was the year

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Speaker 3: that Channel ten went to air here. Yes, we're having

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Speaker 3: three commercial channels. The upgrade to Forest Place. Another upgrade

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Speaker 3: in the city was completed. Murray Street wasn't yet a mall,

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Speaker 3: but you could park your car at the Alexander Library

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Speaker 3: building in Northbridge and take the new what they called

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Speaker 3: the footpath freeway over the rooftops and Wellington Street to

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Speaker 3: the city to go shopping over the rooftops, over the rooftops.

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Speaker 3: That's how the footpath freeway pretty flashing. A year not

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Speaker 3: so flash, prisoners rioted at freeo j l, setting it

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Speaker 3: on fire and taking five waters hostage.

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Speaker 2: I knew one of those waters, Oh did you? Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Hard to believe that Free Jail was opened until nineteen

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Speaker 2: ninety one. Hard to believe.

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Speaker 3: Biz. Nineteen eighty eight saw the Olympic Games held in Sea.

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Speaker 3: We're talking sool South Korea, the Ausies only one where

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Speaker 3: only won three gold medals that year. Duncan Armstrong have

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Speaker 3: a long way, haven't we? How many are we going there?

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Speaker 3: Duncan Armstrong, which is a great name for a swimmer,

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Speaker 3: isn't it.

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Speaker 2: Armstrong?

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Speaker 3: He won the two hundred free style, the four hundred

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Speaker 3: meter hurdler. Debbie flint Off King, Yes, famous name of

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Speaker 3: Australian athletics and the hockey ruse. Now our women, Now

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Speaker 3: there's a team that deserves a statue. Let's be honest.

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Speaker 3: They beat South Korea, the host nation, to nil and

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Speaker 3: that started a twelve year run that included three gold

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Speaker 3: medals for our championship world. Weren't they incredible?

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Speaker 2: Every gold medal we won back in those days was

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Speaker 2: like just thirty central. Now people get angry if the

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Speaker 2: swimmers don't win. Me go yeah, well yeah, we had

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Speaker 2: a couple of Olympics. London was like that.

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Speaker 3: In nineteen eighty eight we moaned about paying sixty cents

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Speaker 3: a leader for petrol after their recent prost roses.

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Speaker 2: Isn't that funny?

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Speaker 3: And if you're busy working nine to five, you'd have

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Speaker 3: to pick up the West Australian or the Daily News

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Speaker 3: newspapers and look for the petrol rosters so you could

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Speaker 3: fill up and then maybe drive miles from home to

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Speaker 3: the airport. Yeah, hard to believe, Lisa. In nineteen eighty eight,

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Speaker 3: we hadn't yet met No, Nelly. I knew of you

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Speaker 3: because you worked You and I worked for the same network. Yes, right,

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Speaker 3: So I was at SAFM and Adelaide and you're at

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Speaker 3: the Eagle, the newly launched station here at home. Yes,

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Speaker 3: and I also had my where I'm heading home to

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Speaker 3: person whereas the brunette radar was switched on. Already sounds sleazy,

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Speaker 3: but it wasn't. We became mates in music. The biggest

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Speaker 3: albums in Australia were in excess as Kick Yep, Dirty

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Speaker 3: Dancing Soundtrack, Freight Train Hart from Jimmy Barnes. After we

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Speaker 3: moved on to chiswel Rick Cassley's Whenever You Need Somebody

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Speaker 3: was a big album that year. We first got Yep,

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Speaker 3: The Lonesome geb Belief from John Mellencamp before he got

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Speaker 3: too grumpy, and Ice house Man of Colours had so

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Speaker 3: many hits out of the Tragic Music Box from nineteen

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Speaker 3: eighty eight here at ninety six afres