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

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Speaker 1: Tragic Music Box. Is that greovy music again? Love? He Greavy, Reavy?

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Speaker 1: Are you ready to go on a journey? I am

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Speaker 1: ready to go on a journey today. Will call me

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Speaker 1: Georgia orwell or well at least because we're going back

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Speaker 1: to eighty four, forty years ago. Least, yes, I do.

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Speaker 1: I remember it well, Night four and you will remember

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Speaker 1: Bob Hawk was reelected as Prime Minister in nineteen eighty four.

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Speaker 1: Okay was in eighty three eighty four and very very

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Speaker 1: popular at that point in time. Midnight All was Peter Garrett,

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Speaker 1: who we spoke to a week ago. He helped form

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Speaker 1: the Nuclear Disarmament Party in Australia that year. It was

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Speaker 1: four forty years ago. Forty years ago. Who would have

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Speaker 1: thought back then that he'd be a labor minister twenty

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Speaker 1: years later? I know the major Party. In nineteen eighty four,

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Speaker 1: the first one hundred dollar notes were circulated, not that

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Speaker 1: we saw many of them. Have you seen one yet?

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Speaker 1: Another guy? Our driver's licensees became a piece of plastic,

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Speaker 1: which we all thought was a bit weird, as used

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Speaker 1: to the program with the paper ones in the wallets

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Speaker 1: and Advance Australia Fair officially was declared Australia's national anthem.

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Speaker 1: Yes we were officially good by Sea forty years ago. Yes,

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Speaker 1: Perth right here at home. The West Australian copy of

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Speaker 1: the paper was forty cents. Seems weird, doesn't it? And

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Speaker 1: why by the putting money on it? Channel seven and

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Speaker 1: Channel nine remember because we were still four years from

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Speaker 1: the launch of Channel ten and Perth seven and nine

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Speaker 1: would go off here at about midnight. They shut down

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Speaker 1: really really stratee and sometimes come back on in the afternoon.

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Speaker 1: And I had a bit of a look at an

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Speaker 1: old TV guide from nineteen eighty four least, and it

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Speaker 1: shows a killer Saturday morning lineup on TV Scooby Doo,

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Speaker 1: Fat Cat's Fun Time Show, Yep, top Cat and this

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Speaker 1: one weird Horsales the horse sale told you buy them,

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Speaker 1: take them home and try and go horsale. Killa Gorilla,

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Speaker 1: the great theme song is that a ripper? It is

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Speaker 1: a banger? Love that Gorilla? What's Hawaiian for our the

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Speaker 1: hottest movies that if you went to the video shop.

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Speaker 1: We all went at the video shop in eighty four Blockbuster.

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Speaker 1: It wasn't I mean it was even pre Blockbuster, wasn't it? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: It was. It was more of the small independence. Yes,

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Speaker 1: somet'm a cleaning up in your VHS excuse me or

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Speaker 1: your beata TUTSI was was a big, big title, classic

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Speaker 1: Raiders of the Lost Arc, Pervy, teenage boys everywhere love

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Speaker 1: Porky's not such a classic bit of a worry. In music,

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Speaker 1: tours reaching Firth and eighty four included Elton John and

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Speaker 1: He's two Loafer zero tour, Yes You Two supporting their

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Speaker 1: Unforgettable Fire album, Yes, and our own in excess on

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Speaker 1: their swing tour in September Than What Amazing to It

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Speaker 1: bloys were so big they came home to Perth twice

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Speaker 1: with our own of course. I'd like to focus down

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Speaker 1: on a special gig at the entertainment set at Lisa.

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Speaker 1: I know a lot of people listening today will have

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Speaker 1: been at this gig. It was July nineteen eighty four

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Speaker 1: and it was one of those ninety six of them

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Speaker 1: special gigs and three bands cheap price for quite a

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Speaker 1: while they were nine dollars ninety six. This one featured

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Speaker 1: Mondo Rock Kids in the Kitchen and Perth's jew Guys

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Speaker 1: Kits in the Kitchen, Sie Scott Can't I knew you

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Speaker 1: all over my wall. I knew say that he was

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Speaker 1: all over the stage actually now first on stage Perth

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Speaker 1: jew Guides, fronted by the ever energetic singer Linda Nutter. Fantastic.

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Speaker 1: They were great, weren't they. They've been on counting the

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Speaker 1: bits over on You in your Car and Juno and

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Speaker 1: Me and South Pacific and Waiting. They were their pop hits.

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Speaker 1: Next the newcomers from Melbourne, Kids in the Kitchen. You

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Speaker 1: always like that noise, playing with your hair, charismatic front man.

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Speaker 1: He had the crowd up and screaming, with those dance

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Speaker 1: moves and that voice. The hits like change in Mood

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Speaker 1: and Bitter Design and forty years on I could tell

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Speaker 1: you I saw Scott Can't Live a couple of years ago.

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Speaker 1: He still got that voice. I know, it's incredible. It

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Speaker 1: still looks all right. Then it was time for the headliners.

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Speaker 1: Ozzie Rock veterans Mondo Rock came out. Ross Wilson. Yes,

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Speaker 1: Ross the Boss was back in town. Straight into the groove.

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Speaker 1: The band's fourth album, The Modern Bop, was top five

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Speaker 1: in Australia and the hits from it flowed come said,

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Speaker 1: the boy and Baby wants to rock. Then it was

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Speaker 1: into that Mondo rock catalog of hits and what a

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Speaker 1: catalog chemistry. Summer of eighty one the Queen and Me

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Speaker 1: and Cool World and their first major hit written by

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Speaker 1: the guitarist Eric McCusker called State of the Heart. That

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Speaker 1: beautiful State of the Heart was beautiful parents. After the gig,

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Speaker 1: the Mondo rock fans spilled out of the entertainment center

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Speaker 1: on to Wellington Street. I know because I was amongst them.

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Speaker 1: Many headed up to Milligan Street for fast Eddies for Berger,

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Speaker 1: following Scott Card was left behind Wellington Street car park.

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Speaker 1: I was going to fast Eddies, as you can imagine,

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Speaker 1: and I remember the song. Most people are around me

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Speaker 1: were singing chemistry. It was. It was stuck in their

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Speaker 1: heads after the gig, so the chemistry certainly was right

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Speaker 1: that night July and nineteen eighty four and the Tragic

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Speaker 1: Music Box on ninety six Afre