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

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Speaker 2: History Clezi's Tragic Music Box. All right, we are going

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Speaker 2: back in time through the years.

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Speaker 1: What do we got after our groovy music fades a little?

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Speaker 1: We're going back least today to nineteen eighty one. We're

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Speaker 1: going to start with the al right, our share, We're

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Speaker 1: going to start with the Perth music live music scene.

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Speaker 1: And one Lisa Show couldn't go. Lisa Maccine couldn't go.

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Speaker 1: She was just a baby. However, at the Shen's Sheddon Park,

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Speaker 1: the shed they could go to the Sheds Sheddon Park Hotel.

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Speaker 1: You catch Seal on the Beam or the Mannequin's Live.

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Speaker 1: The Teddy Bears were playing the best of fifties rock

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Speaker 1: and roll at.

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Speaker 2: The Charles Yes, one of the few venues still going.

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Speaker 1: And I do remember from looking at the paper, you know,

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Speaker 1: it might have been the Daily News or something, and

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Speaker 1: you'd see the band things. The Teddy Bears had a

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Speaker 1: really cool sort of little cartoon of some fifties rocker.

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Speaker 2: As they're in their ads, right, I remember around looking around.

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Speaker 1: Yea Flashes was the name of the venue at the

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Speaker 1: White Sands in Scarborough. That was the band room or

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Speaker 1: the club. They had blues with Matt Taylor and Phil Manning,

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Speaker 1: two great blues guitarists. I've both been members of Chane

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Speaker 1: great Ossie blues band. The Frames were packing them in

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Speaker 1: at the Osborn Park Hotel, the Aussie Park and the

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Speaker 1: legendary Dave Warner. Just the Suburban Boy was playing for

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Speaker 1: Sunday session, she said. Used to go off Turing acts

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Speaker 1: to play. The Entertainment Center in eighty one included the

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Speaker 1: one and only Stevie Wonder, the Police and Dire Straits

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Speaker 1: were pretty much fairly new bands still, he'd been round

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Speaker 1: through four years. Country superstar Willie Nelson was here and

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Speaker 1: speaking of country superstars, the Man in Black Johnny Cash

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Speaker 1: was in town.

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Speaker 2: How good's that?

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Speaker 1: And oh, by the way, in February of eighty one ACDC,

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Speaker 1: speaking of black, we're back in black. In politics in

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Speaker 1: nineteen eighty one, our Premier, Sir Charles Court, who always

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Speaker 1: said West of Australia great orator, he was concerned our

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Speaker 1: members of Parliament would struggle to get by on their

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Speaker 1: average wage of twenty eight thousand dollars a year, which

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Speaker 1: wasn't bad back then if you think about it. In

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Speaker 1: if you bought a house and three bedroom house in Applecross.

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Speaker 1: There was worth seventy six grand, leaning fifty eight thousand

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Speaker 1: and Warrick forty six thousand, nineteen eighty one prices, speaking

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Speaker 1: of which a leader of petrol back then was thirty

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Speaker 1: seven cents.

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Speaker 2: Sound funny time you.

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Speaker 1: Had to go the the thing.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it was rosters. Yeah that's right.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. A loaf of bread was seventy cents, and your

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Speaker 1: milkow would leave a liter of milk in your plastic

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Speaker 1: bottle holder near the front door if you left out

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Speaker 1: seventy four cents in change. We did have two cent

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Speaker 1: pieces to help it out, yet pinched. Yeah no, I

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Speaker 1: was going to say, imagine leaving cash out now the

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Speaker 1: porch pirates of.

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Speaker 2: Seventy four cents would be gone, Toby. You could close

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Speaker 2: your front door properly.

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Speaker 1: It all adds up if they do the whole street.

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Speaker 1: But the movie Steven Spielberg teamed up with Harrison Ford

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Speaker 1: and Raiders of the Lost Arc John Belushi and Dan

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Speaker 1: Akroyd paid tribute to the legends of Soul and the

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Speaker 1: Blues Brothers. Their co stars included Aretha Franklin, James Brown,

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Speaker 1: and Ray Charles took about top shelf and Leslie Nielson,

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Speaker 1: we know was hilarious in Flying High, giving you some

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Speaker 1: of the most repeated lines in common history.

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Speaker 2: Can plan and landed. Surely you can't be serious. I

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Speaker 2: am serious, and don't call me surely.

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Speaker 1: It does not matter how many times I've seen that movie.

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Speaker 1: Still myself that's the most that's the most obvious one.

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Speaker 2: But there are so many. Can we be here? We

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Speaker 2: can play the whole movie this morning and give I

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Speaker 2: can make a broach, can be it's a hospital. What

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Speaker 2: is that? It's a big building with patients.

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Speaker 1: It's not important right now.

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Speaker 2: Remember straight, we're all counting on you flying over the

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Speaker 2: woman what's her name? When she's talking? Jib that's right

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Speaker 2: talking Kenny. I love that anyway. See, we could be here.

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Speaker 1: I was Flying High nineteen eighty one. It came out

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Speaker 1: very late in eighty in the States, but eighty one

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Speaker 1: was the year it's had a big impact.

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Speaker 2: They called it there, they did.

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Speaker 1: I was speaking of entertainment. Entertainer Max Kay and his

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Speaker 1: Civic Theater restaurant open in beaufortt Street on the side

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Speaker 1: of a former meat works in eighty one, and it's

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Speaker 1: estimated more than one point five million people passed through

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Speaker 1: its doors to be fed and entertained before Max closed

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Speaker 1: it down in the year two thousand. I remember going

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Speaker 1: there for a parent's work Christmas party. Oh yes, yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I went sorry show there Max would He wrapped up

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Speaker 1: the night by doing John Lennon's imagine, which was sound

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Speaker 1: of Funny in Scottish.

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Speaker 2: He was set an entertainer funny man.

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Speaker 1: Nineteen eighty one fashion included Safari suits, yes, hair and pants, knickerbockers,

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Speaker 1: and some people even wore glitter tights, which is weird

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Speaker 1: but not all to be worn at once. Only Won

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Speaker 1: loved a bit of glitter. I remember having a ruffel

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Speaker 1: shirt shirt yeah, oh yeah, yeah.

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Speaker 2: A lot of material.

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Speaker 1: Eighty one I was twenty sixteen, so I got my

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Speaker 1: first jack colored. It was a black jacket with colored specks.

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Speaker 2: On it from.

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Speaker 1: At the kind of City. Spent a fortune in my

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Speaker 1: first page. And we'll wrap today's nineteen eighty one time

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Speaker 1: trip with one of the biggest new stars in British rock,

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Speaker 1: actually an American named Chrissy Hine with her band The Pretenders,

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Speaker 1: from their second album Pretenders Too. It had been previously released,

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Speaker 1: especially in States, on an EP but it came out

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Speaker 1: on Pretenders Too, which is a great follow up to

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Speaker 1: the first album from the Tragic Music Box from nineteen

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Speaker 1: eighty one on ninety six FM.