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

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Speaker 1: Tragic Music Box. Can I have the little opener as

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Speaker 1: my ringtime now? Absolutely? If you want to every time,

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Speaker 1: I'm going to call that all okay, Well I want

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Speaker 1: some passive income, so that'll cost you. Now, the Final

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Speaker 1: Tragic Music Box is not from one particular year. Least

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Speaker 1: we'd have a bit of Oh it's bits of the box. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's bits spaces. So as you say, I collect everything,

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Speaker 1: I've got information and junk everywhere in this box is

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Speaker 1: it's getting bigger. So I thought, for the Final Tragic

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Speaker 1: Box episode from my unforgetable four and a half years

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Speaker 1: here at ninety six, I pluck a few favorite things.

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Speaker 1: It's a few of my favorite things that are popped up.

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Speaker 1: My nineteen eighty nine tax return in there. It was yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: well someone that did the attacks. I know, thank you.

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Speaker 1: I'm so responsible, mister sensible, is that what you're calling me? Now?

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Speaker 1: If I can be self indulgent, I'm going to start

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Speaker 1: with a few of my favorite gigs in Perth over

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Speaker 1: the years. So I have to start with my first

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Speaker 1: ever concert. I've never been to a gig. I was

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Speaker 1: fifteen and kiss finally came to Australia in nineteen eighty

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Speaker 1: at the Old Entertainment Center, and I vividly remembered not

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Speaker 1: only we're excited to be there, but the heat coming.

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Speaker 1: I was in the rafters. I was right up the

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Speaker 1: back right and I could feel the heat coming from

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Speaker 1: those giant buns and burners, the pyro gear that they

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Speaker 1: had on stage. And also how the crowd was so

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Speaker 1: quiet during the first song Detroit Rock City. I could

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Speaker 1: not believe how quiet they were, because we were basically

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Speaker 1: all kids, never been to a gig before, and it

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Speaker 1: was like we couldn't believe. We're in shock that the

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Speaker 1: boys were here. The face painted four oh and by

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Speaker 1: the way, it was bloody lad long time ago night

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Speaker 1: and eighty yes, indeed next was next week. Remember to

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Speaker 1: nineteen eighty six and Dire Straits played eight straight nights

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Speaker 1: at the Entertainment Center and that massive Brothers and Brothers

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Speaker 1: in Arms of World two incredible. How Mark Noofle's fingers,

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Speaker 1: how brilliant he is on guitar right, How his fingers

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Speaker 1: of I playing guitar like that eight nights in a row.

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Speaker 1: I don't know, because a lot of music haven't night

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Speaker 1: off in between or they played two and do you

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Speaker 1: know anyone who went to all eight shows? No? I didn't. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: the Distrates head because that was such a huge album.

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Speaker 1: The one thing I remember is queuing up for tickets

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Speaker 1: the previous year for Diastrates and having the well so

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Speaker 1: called sleep outside the ent sand and then on the

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Speaker 1: night my girlfriend and I had a barneie about halfway through,

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Speaker 1: and I went through the bloody show after waiting for

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Speaker 1: six months and killing Juliet. Oh well, there was somewhere

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Speaker 1: in there something like that. So Diastrates incredible nineteen eighty six.

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Speaker 1: I told you it was going to be self indulgent.

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Speaker 1: I had to mention my favorite band, Steely Dan, who

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Speaker 1: never used to never used to really tour for some reason,

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Speaker 1: and all of a sudden they started touring and they

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Speaker 1: came to Perth in two thousand and seven. Finally they

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Speaker 1: came here. I couldn't believe it. They played at Sandorford Winery.

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Speaker 1: I have told you this story before that I never

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Speaker 1: buy merchandise, and I bought merch I went nuts. I

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Speaker 1: wore a cap. I never wore a hideous green T

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Speaker 1: shirt like a really horrible green playing card. I bought

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Speaker 1: a pack of Steely Dann playing cards that I never played,

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Speaker 1: never had a game off with them. I think, I

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Speaker 1: just know, I think, I just we've got time now,

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Speaker 1: But I reckon, I just went through the merchantself. I've

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Speaker 1: won one of those, one of those. I was buying

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Speaker 1: Lolly's like a little kid at the Delhi and as

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Speaker 1: I walked down the hill to my seat there at Sandleford,

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Speaker 1: the boys opened with a song called Time out of

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Speaker 1: Mind Steely Dan, so smooth and I because I love

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Speaker 1: them so much, I felt like I was walking on air.

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Speaker 1: And you know, you go to a gig with some

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Speaker 1: of your love, there's nothing better. Yours up full of merch,

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Speaker 1: drop my play cards, Someone's oh god, yeah, that was great,

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Speaker 1: Time out of Mine Steely Dan. Now we mentioned a

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Speaker 1: few priced comparents at Parison's over time in the Tragic

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Speaker 1: Box Lease, but my absolute favorite was from nineteen eighty three,

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Speaker 1: and I did this fairly recently. It was the year

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Speaker 1: I started in radio. Eighty three was the time we

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Speaker 1: did rent a house in beautiful Shendon Park for seventy

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Speaker 1: five bucks a week. You could also buy a three

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Speaker 1: bedroom townhouse and como for fifty nine grand or if

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Speaker 1: you wanted to build a new family home, your head up, Alexander,

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Speaker 1: drive to the new suburb of Balladura, snap up a

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Speaker 1: seven hundred meters square block for under thirteen thousand dollars. Now,

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Speaker 1: I know we're talking about forty two years ago, but

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Speaker 1: were that much this month, exactly, exactly. One thing I

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Speaker 1: really want to mention in the final Tragic Box is

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Speaker 1: telethon because I've been lucky enough to be involved in

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Speaker 1: thirty six telethons. Yeah. The first one I did was

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Speaker 1: I was in Bunbury. I got on the TV in

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Speaker 1: Bunbury and I thought I was famous. Well, as soon

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Speaker 1: as you see a bar take you very much for

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Speaker 1: you really did staying up watching it, I know how incredible.

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Speaker 1: So that was pretty cool. So thirty six telethons, so

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Speaker 1: I've been very lucky you. But I want to talk

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Speaker 1: about some of the incredible real stars who helped raise

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Speaker 1: over six hundred and eighty eight million bucks. Michael Jackson,

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Speaker 1: Stevie Wonder, Cliff Richard, Harry, Coonock Junior, Young Whitney Houston,

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Speaker 1: even younger Celine Dion. She wasn't a huge day yet,

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Speaker 1: but she was on the way. Tina Turner and Sammy

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Speaker 1: Davis Junior of course stole the show. It feels like

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Speaker 1: one hundred years ago. What did entertainer A Sammy Davis,

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Speaker 1: I know where you're laughing at the real stars of Telethon,

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Speaker 1: the Telethon kids and you the people of Western Australia,

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Speaker 1: the most generous people on the Absolutely, there's no doubt

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Speaker 1: about it. Soon it recently with our caring coats and

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Speaker 1: I want to wrap up today and I think you

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Speaker 1: know where this are going because this would not be

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Speaker 1: fitting up. But I didn't do this song in front

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Speaker 1: of me. Yeah, I did. I put a false song.

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Speaker 1: There was a decoy. In March of nineteen ninety, American

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Speaker 1: rock band Heart took an old Dobie Gray song and

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Speaker 1: completely smashed the lyrics. They did. They change the lyrics. Look,

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Speaker 1: we joke about it all the time. Let's be honest.

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Speaker 1: It's a musical crime to change a sweet love song

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Speaker 1: into the story of a desperate woman who seduces a

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Speaker 1: hitchhiker just in order to get pregnant without ever telling

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Speaker 1: a partner. Then one day the dude rocks up and

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Speaker 1: he's got the same eyes as the kid, what were

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Speaker 1: you thinking? So damn creepy. So I thought that was

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Speaker 1: a perfect way to finish the final Tragic Music Box.

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Speaker 1: Couldn't be more perfect with one of our favorite this

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Speaker 1: bloody songs, It's Heart. All I want to do is

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Speaker 1: make love to you, and I think it's appropriate. Lace up,

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Speaker 1: we blow up the Tragic Music Box for the final time.

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Speaker 1: What do you reckon? Hit it again before it says