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

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Speaker 1: tragic music box. Today we're going back way back to

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Speaker 1: nineteen eighty. Okay, nineteen eighty and nineteen eighty. Didn't we

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Speaker 1: think we were so cool with a walkman on?

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Speaker 2: We thought we were so futuristic, so cool, so cool,

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Speaker 2: so cool.

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Speaker 1: They had that little thing around your neck and those

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Speaker 1: little headphones on. Some people were jogging a.

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Speaker 2: Rock still handbag.

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Speaker 1: Yeah that's right, jogging a roller skating with that thing

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Speaker 1: attached to your belt. Yeah, yeah, absolutely, with the tiny

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Speaker 1: shorts on, with the piping on the edges, or the memories.

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Speaker 1: Some people just reached, of course for the floor of

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Speaker 1: the old Ford swimming tablets. Remember the Ford swimming tabs,

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Speaker 1: to remember those. They were heavily promoted across it, particularly

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Speaker 1: in America, but Nozzy's got into them as well.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Beware of the side effects because there were so many

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Speaker 1: side effects of those bloody things.

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Speaker 2: Not good.

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Speaker 1: Because the diet pill craze was huge at the movies Jane,

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Speaker 1: Lily Tomlin and Dolly Parton were of course, such a

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Speaker 1: big hit movie, wasn't it that one? Probably Jane thoughts,

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Speaker 1: I'm probably doing pills especially Jane. She was saying she

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Speaker 1: was working out with the legwarmers.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, the Jane Fonder aerobics. I had the video.

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Speaker 1: Oh you had the video? Yes, yeah, awesome, that's thought.

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Speaker 1: Those lego womans look awesome. The English paparazzi Lisa in

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Speaker 1: nineteen eighty scored their first snap of Prince Charles's new girlfriend,

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Speaker 1: Lady Diana Spencer. Do you remember the shot? She had

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Speaker 1: a couple of kids with her, which of course weren't hers,

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Speaker 1: and she was wearing the.

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Speaker 2: Sea through striped shirt.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, they're just having to get the shot with the

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Speaker 1: sun behind her on TV. Dallas was absolutely huge. Used

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Speaker 1: to love the shot at the start where you saw

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Speaker 1: all those mirror of the windowed buildings in Dallas, Texas. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: so incredible huge. Wasn't it a massive show? And no

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Speaker 1: bigger than this stage in nineteen eighty when you know

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Speaker 1: Who shot Jr? Those big episodes and we're all wondering

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Speaker 1: what was going on. Eighty three million Americans, so nearly

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Speaker 1: half of the US population watched the Who Shot.

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Speaker 2: Jail end of seasonal cliffhangers.

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Speaker 3: They had bilmed three different outcomes they had to try

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Speaker 3: to under wraps imagine how long you'd keep something like

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Speaker 3: that under wraps.

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Speaker 2: For these days, it's impossible.

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Speaker 3: It wouldn't even make it to the showing of the

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Speaker 3: episode that was the cliffhanger, because it was just before

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Speaker 3: the season was released.

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Speaker 1: At the time, it was just over two hundred million Americans,

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Speaker 1: so nearly half the population wanted to see who put

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Speaker 1: the bullet into Larry Hagman's grinning evil guy in the

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Speaker 1: Giant Cowboy hat. Oh j a ewing at home here

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Speaker 1: in Perth in nineteen eighty least, the state manager of

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Speaker 1: any financier investment company could rake in an incredible salary

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Speaker 1: of eighteen to twenty thousand dollars plus a company falcon.

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Speaker 2: Oh we The falcon was if you if your dad

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Speaker 2: had a company car.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, company car, because your mum could have had a

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Speaker 3: company car too, but.

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Speaker 2: It was more likely your dad.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it was pretty flu You might as well have

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Speaker 3: had a pull and a cornetto every night.

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Speaker 2: Stop it, I mean, not a cornetto what was that

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Speaker 2: last pressure.

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Speaker 1: Drumsticking something like that.

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Speaker 2: I don't know.

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Speaker 1: We just had the cheap ice block ones I did you, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: a block of land and Kingsley put your back fourteen

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Speaker 1: thousand dollars in nineteen eighty and how to think about this,

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Speaker 1: in nineteen eighty the Mitchell Freeway only went up to

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Speaker 1: Hutton Street.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, how bizarre is that?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, the carn Up extension wouldn't be finished for another

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Speaker 1: three years. And going the other way, of course, the

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Speaker 1: Kunana Freeway went all the way down to Canning Highway.

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Speaker 2: Oh, it was really worth a point for Wow, so

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Speaker 2: bizarre is it? It got to South Street by nineteen eighty four.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that was the next to the next installment. And

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Speaker 1: also in nineteen eighty. Look, we didn't mind a novelty

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Speaker 1: song one.

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Speaker 2: Somewhere, did you? Sorry? Just stuck in your head? Why

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Speaker 2: enough for Joe Dalgy another novelty song?

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Speaker 1: Can I tell you? You know? We talk about novelty

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Speaker 1: songs that went to number one in fifteen countries.

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Speaker 2: Sour it did he?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? It was number one for eight weeks from November

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Speaker 1: of nineteen eighty. That's no accounting for However, the UK

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Speaker 1: love a novelty song, and even though he was American

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Speaker 1: who moved to Melbourne in the late seven it went

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Speaker 1: one in Germany's time.

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Speaker 2: We were not going to play it.

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Speaker 1: New Zealand, Ireland. So now we're not because we're going

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Speaker 1: to talk about some real music here. December twenty and

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Speaker 1: twenty one, Lease Elton John had an album called twenty

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Speaker 1: one at thirty three and then the tour made it

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Speaker 1: to Perth earlier, a Deel style album. Exactly funny you

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Speaker 1: say that. Look he made it to Perth for shows

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Speaker 1: at our entertainment center. We're talking about nineteen eighty. The

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Speaker 1: gigs wrapped up a run of sixty three shows over

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Speaker 1: three and a half months. He was a busy boy.

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Speaker 1: And Elton and his band obviously they're in red hot

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Speaker 1: form and of course you know what bands are like

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Speaker 1: when they get to the end of a tour.

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Speaker 2: They're having such a good time. In the eighties, we

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Speaker 2: were allowed to have it good and they.

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Speaker 1: Know they're going to get time off straight after and

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Speaker 1: they're here in summer. So the gig started with the

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Speaker 1: epic Funeral for a Friend and Love Lies Bleeding from

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Speaker 1: the album Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, and then it went

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Speaker 1: straight into the contrasting style of Tiny Dancer Beautiful, then

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Speaker 1: a track from the Goodbye Yellow Brick Road album we

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Speaker 1: speak of the title track and then Rocketman and Philadelphia

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Speaker 1: Freedom or was a concert favorite. Very Sweet Little Jeanie

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Speaker 1: was the hit single from that twenty one at thirty

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Speaker 1: three album. And as you mentioned about Adele or Taylor Swift,

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Speaker 1: you know, using ages and all the rest of it.

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Speaker 1: And in referring to album titles, twenty one at thirty

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Speaker 1: three was his twenty first album in total at that

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Speaker 1: stage at the age of thirty three. For elt So

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Speaker 1: it was all for a reason. We were treated, of

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Speaker 1: course to an emotional tribute for his friend. He's very

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Speaker 1: good friend, John Lennon. And if you think about it,

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Speaker 1: it was only twelve days earlier that John had been

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Speaker 1: murdered in New York City and Elton was on.

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Speaker 2: Stage here in Perth.

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Speaker 1: We're talking about nineteen eighty, the end of nineteen eighty,

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Speaker 1: so it wasn't a dry eye in the house. The

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Speaker 1: encore had everything song for Guy, your song and then

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Speaker 1: a cranked up rock and roll energy, very energetic medley

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Speaker 1: of great balls of fire, jailhouse rock, and I saw

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Speaker 1: her standing there. So we celebrate the tour and we

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Speaker 1: wrap up the Tragic music Box from nineteen eighty. On

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