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Speaker 1: Delving deep into the archives of real music Clezi's Tragic

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Speaker 1: Music Box. The year nineteen eighty three today last eighty three.

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Speaker 1: What a year to be in Australian What a year

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Speaker 1: to be a Westernsie, because there's been a lot of

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Speaker 1: chatter lately about it being forty years ago. In fact

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Speaker 1: next month since Australia two won the America's Cup off Newport,

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Speaker 1: Rhode Island and the New York Golt Club were spewing.

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Speaker 2: They were they were not happy.

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Speaker 3: No, I want attack it.

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Speaker 1: There a cup before and our country stopped and then

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Speaker 1: we partied hard, and.

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Speaker 2: Alan Bond saying lift it up.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's right, lift it up and show us the

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Speaker 1: winking and all the rest of incredible times. And there

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Speaker 1: will be big celebrations next month of course with that

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Speaker 1: concert happen, well they should, yeah, headline by the Hoodi

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Speaker 1: Gurus and Baby Animals.

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Speaker 3: Now.

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Speaker 1: Eighty three was a year for the true believers, of course,

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Speaker 1: in Aussie politics, with Labour's Bob Hawk, their former union boss,

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Speaker 1: becoming our PM. He was part of the celebrations of

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Speaker 1: Australia two and a former journalist print and radio and

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Speaker 1: TV journalist Brian Burke became Premier on his thirty sixth

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Speaker 1: birthday here in Wa. It's pretty young. Weren't run the state.

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Speaker 1: And when I had, that ended exactly five years later.

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Speaker 1: And beyond look, you could book into sam Rafichis in

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Speaker 1: Murray Street lease if you needed your do done for

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Speaker 1: any for an exclusive vita permanent way. They get the

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Speaker 1: per for twenty five dollars ninety five.

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Speaker 2: Ye they met permanent. That's permanent, all right, they met permanent.

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Speaker 3: Yep.

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Speaker 1: A three bedroom house in Combo was fifty nine thousand bucks. Stoper, Oh,

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Speaker 1: I said it already, it's out.

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Speaker 3: Sorry about that.

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Speaker 1: You could head up Great Eastern Highway lease for a

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Speaker 1: four course dinner with the family and a spectacular.

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Speaker 2: Those dancing horses, those stadiums, those Andalusians, Cabello Blanco.

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Speaker 3: You don't need to sing it.

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Speaker 2: I got it here for your lifetime.

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Speaker 3: Watchings bad.

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Speaker 2: Joined the people coming.

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Speaker 3: Down again and again. Isn't it great? Goosebumps.

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Speaker 1: It's Tugo bellow Blanco, just channeling the George Baker's election

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Speaker 1: for you there. And also in nineteen eighty three, a

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Speaker 1: new Dat's in Handy three door was four thousand, six

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Speaker 1: hundred bucks from John Goldie motors in Midland. Oh yeah, now,

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Speaker 1: let's get to the music. Part of the Tragic Music Box.

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Speaker 1: For three consecutive nights in November of nineteen eighty three,

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Speaker 1: David Bowie owned perse he did. On the morning of

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Speaker 1: November three, David arrived on a plane from Japan, pushing

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Speaker 1: his own luggage on one of those old trolleys because

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Speaker 1: it was before we had the wheels on our own

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Speaker 1: luggage with regular travelers. Getting off the plane with regular

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Speaker 1: people were so buzies for the great unwashed. He signed

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Speaker 1: some autographs and jumped into a limo and headed off

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Speaker 1: to what was his only press conference in the Australian

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Speaker 1: leg of the tour, the Serious Moonlight Tour. So we're

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Speaker 1: a bit chump that we had David to ourselves and

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Speaker 1: also he did the only presser here. But the gigs

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Speaker 1: themselves were spectacular and I know someone who was there.

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Speaker 2: You were there, Super Bowie fair.

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Speaker 4: I can remember it like it was yesterday. The lights,

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Speaker 4: you know, there was a spotlight on. This is how

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Speaker 4: the show started, you know, the lights went down up

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Speaker 4: whatever spotlight on. David he had on the yellow let's

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Speaker 4: dance suit. He had his back to the audience and

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Speaker 4: It started with the amazing song look Back in Anger.

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Speaker 4: So he shuffled backwards towards us, singing, you know who

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Speaker 4: I am?

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Speaker 2: He said, and then he turned around and it was

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Speaker 2: David and I Lost Time.

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Speaker 3: You know what a way to start.

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Speaker 2: Oh my god, it was amazing, so good.

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Speaker 1: He there went into Heroes, Life on Mars, Golden Years,

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Speaker 1: and Sorrow Everyone's a sixteen year older. He was losing

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Speaker 1: it all Killer, then abrasive songs from the hot album

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Speaker 1: of the day, Let's Dance. Let's Be Honest was a

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Speaker 1: huge hit album, the title track We've Got China Girl

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Speaker 1: and cat People also the Bloweie Zowe Blitzkrieg. Then continued

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Speaker 1: with Scary Monsters, I know you love Rebel, Rebel, I

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Speaker 1: love face is a mess Ashes to Ashes and young Americans.

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Speaker 1: He then threw us fame really and as if the

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Speaker 1: entertainment center wasn't exploding already, the on care was the

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Speaker 1: Gene Genie and Modern Love, also from the Leed Stan's album.

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Speaker 4: One of the greatest concerts of all time.

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Speaker 1: Just incredible And who would have thought, just five weeks

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Speaker 1: after we won the America's Cup that anything or anyone

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Speaker 1: would divert our Attention in Perth and have Us Fallen

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Speaker 1: in Love? And it was David.

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Speaker 2: I went with my brother.

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Speaker 4: We still talk about this concert and the fact that

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Speaker 4: we were driving down Wellington straight. This is back in

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Speaker 4: the days when you could find a park on well

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Speaker 4: Interest you'll go to a show there and we saw,

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Speaker 4: we swore it was David Bowie. What past us in

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Speaker 4: the suit with the very yellow heck But it was

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Speaker 4: just some guy dressed to dab.

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Speaker 3: Some dude.

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Speaker 4: Brother's got around the plot coming back to try to

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Speaker 4: spot him.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, memberies, of those three great nights in November of

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Speaker 1: nineteen eighty three could only have been David who would

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Speaker 1: steal our hearts. And he didn't have a night off too.

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Speaker 1: He played three in a which is unreal. The Tragic

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Speaker 1: Music Box from eighty three today thirty six FM