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

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Speaker 2: Clezi Tragic Music Box, I ain't gonna trumpet out.

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Speaker 1: Again, getting quite a work at.

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Speaker 2: Pretty griovy in it Ariety nineteen eighty one. Lease, okay

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Speaker 2: on the Tragic Box today, you and I. Let's be honest.

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Speaker 2: We were still at school, Jesse babies. We were so

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Speaker 2: young and innocent. What one of us was. Let's start

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Speaker 2: with some numbers. Okay, we love the numbers. Nineteen eighty one,

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Speaker 2: Perth's median house price was forty three thousand dollars. Currently

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Speaker 2: it's about six hundred and sixty grand. Leader of petrol

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Speaker 2: was thirty seven cents, but it was it's.

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Speaker 1: About sixty seven grad.

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Speaker 2: Exactly, but a little bit harder to get petrol if

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Speaker 2: it was after midday on a Saturday or late at night,

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Speaker 2: because you had to check the newspaper for the roster stations.

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Speaker 1: And the window of the service station which would have

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Speaker 1: been well and truly closed by the time I found there.

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Speaker 2: It's just also bud, yeah, bizarre thinking about petrol rosted

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Speaker 2: wasn't that long. It was only the mid nineties when

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Speaker 2: they stopped doing those nineteen eighty one. Robert Redford from

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Speaker 2: Hollywood was deemed the world's most desirable man Roberts eighty

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Speaker 2: eight this year. But he was a very good looking

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Speaker 2: blonde man South from Atle the Redhead.

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Speaker 1: Really yeah, I guess yeah, strawberry blonde.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, strawberry blonde yeah. South from Adele's champion ruckman Stephen Michael.

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Speaker 2: What a footballer. He was the most desirable man in

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Speaker 2: WA footy. He won his second consecutive Sandover medal. Too.

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Speaker 2: I'm champion and funny man too. WA's Test cricket captain

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Speaker 2: Kim Hugh scored two hundred and thirteen runs against India

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Speaker 2: in nineteen eighty one, and he dedicated to his dedicated

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Speaker 2: the double Centry to his newborn twins Sean and Simon

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Speaker 2: so one each for the boys. Yep. And he got

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Speaker 2: a congratulatory telegram from wife Jenny Bloody telegrams telegram warstop

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Speaker 2: so bizarre yeah stop. The top five Australian hits of

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Speaker 2: nineteen eighty one are we're ready for these? Yes? Okay?

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Speaker 2: Number five Slim Dusty Duncan was number five. Number four

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Speaker 2: was Jesse's girl from rick Springfield. I don't need to

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Speaker 2: played a bit of that still is, isn't it number three,

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Speaker 2: billy Field number billy Field Habits followed up his Bad

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Speaker 2: Habits which was number four with this one. This was

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Speaker 2: the number one, the ballad you Weren't in Love with Me. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: it's not my favorite song, but it was a hit

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Speaker 2: at the time, so we'd roll that went out as well. Okay,

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Speaker 2: so the number two Ossie song were these guys who

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Speaker 2: were about to win a couple of Grammys. Met at

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Speaker 2: Work had two number ones in America before winning that Grammy,

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Speaker 2: Like it was quite remarkable that one. They were Trailblazer

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Speaker 2: that one and then down Under. Both went at the

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Speaker 2: top of the charts and America loved one.

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Speaker 1: And it didn't hurt that he was originally from America,

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Speaker 1: but pretty cool it ever got us in there.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, And speaking of other countries and having success some

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Speaker 2: Kiwi's when the number one song here in Australia, it

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Speaker 2: was the swingers were counting the beat. I had that

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Speaker 2: single I reckon, I just about wore the grooves out.

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Speaker 2: That was awesome, unreal And that was Phil Judd who

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Speaker 2: was formerly had been with the Finn Brothers in Split

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Speaker 2: Ends and the Bones. Hilm and On Bassy went on

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Speaker 2: to play with Midnight Oil and in February of nineteen

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Speaker 2: eighty one, Lease Roxy Music played our entertainment center.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, smooth and addictionary and there's an So the Flesh

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Speaker 1: and Blood tour it started back in May the previous

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Speaker 1: year in France and it was celebrating the band's seventh album,

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Speaker 1: Flesh and Blood.

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Speaker 2: Some dates have been canceled on the tour. Brian Ferry

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Speaker 2: falling ill at one stage with a kidney infection, but

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Speaker 2: by the time they got to Perth he was well

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Speaker 2: and truly on fire. And so with the band. Now,

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Speaker 2: I know someone who was at this gig kidney. Someone

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Speaker 2: feels like, yeah, something wasn't going on. He had a

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Speaker 2: saw back. I know someone who was at the gig

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Speaker 2: and I called her yesterday and said, okay, sum up

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Speaker 2: what Brian Fairy was like on stage in nineteen eighty one.

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Speaker 2: She gave me three keywords, sexy as.

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Speaker 1: Hell, separently these days.

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Speaker 2: Then I hung up.

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Speaker 1: We just say sexy ah.

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Speaker 2: Yeah exactly. So you think about it. Brian Ferry on stage,

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Speaker 2: the jacket, the leather pants, just the sway. Yeah, it

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Speaker 2: was a skinny tie era smirk.

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Speaker 1: That wasn't a smirk, but it was a smirk.

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Speaker 2: And he had that little teased bit of fringe over

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Speaker 2: one eye. Brian comes on staf Age and Roxy Music sideways, look, yeah,

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Speaker 2: all of that kind of stuff. And he had the

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Speaker 2: moves as well. Yeah, okay, cold Shower. This was serious

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Speaker 2: musos too. You had filmman's in your own guitar. You

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Speaker 2: had Andy mccaye on sacks. You had Paul Carrick on

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Speaker 2: keyboards and vocals, so you know, he was in Ace

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Speaker 2: and his solo career and Squeeze and all the rest

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Speaker 2: of it. But also he was in Michael Mechanics later

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Speaker 2: on a real quality voice, So what a joy to

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Speaker 2: have him playing keyboards but doing back up vocals as well.

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Speaker 1: Yeah that's all well and good, but you are going

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Speaker 1: to play some Roxy music.

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Speaker 2: Not getting there. Look we heard Roxy music flesh and Blood.

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Speaker 2: We heard, you know, from that album eight Miles High, Rain, Rain, Rain,

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Speaker 2: and the gorgeous dance away from that previous album Manifesto,

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Speaker 2: the thrill of it all the strand and the crowd

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Speaker 2: went nuts, you know, the old entertainment's had to run

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Speaker 2: down the front when he did Lovers the Drug the.

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Speaker 1: Minute the lights went dark.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, he's down there. Love is the drug. So

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Speaker 2: some people have been told member security, mate, you go

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Speaker 2: back to your seat. So when Lovers the Drog came on,

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Speaker 2: they all ran down the front. And it was also

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Speaker 2: the first tour of that Jealous Guy. They did a

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Speaker 2: cover of Jealous Guy because it was only a couple

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Speaker 2: of months earlier when John then passed away, and they

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Speaker 2: decided post to her to record it and releases it

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Speaker 2: a single. Beautiful cover it was, wasn't it Yeah Yeah,

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Speaker 2: very fitting and they played that gig in Germany and

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Speaker 2: where they played it the first time, so very emotional

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Speaker 2: Tragic music Box in nineteen eighty one,