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

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Speaker 2: Crazy's Tragic Music Blocks.

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Speaker 1: All right today, back to nineteen eighty five or Tragic

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Speaker 1: Music Box. What a year it was? We know it

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Speaker 1: was the year of Live Aid jan It was July thirteen,

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Speaker 1: nineteen eighty five, and those huge concerts at Wembley Stadium

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Speaker 1: in London and JFK and Philadelphia. But there was also

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Speaker 1: an Australian leg of Live Aid, remember that called OZ

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Speaker 1: for Africa. It was on the same day as well

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Speaker 1: Sydney Entertainment Center. They raised a lot of money, hosted

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Speaker 1: by Molly of course, in excess met at Work LB.

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Speaker 1: The were the three bands that got played on the

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Speaker 1: international coverage and the Mentals and Dragon and Models, Ozzie

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Speaker 1: Crawl and the Angels were there as well. But yeah,

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Speaker 1: like I said, raising a lot of money from the

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Speaker 1: Australian leg, But there were gigs all around the world

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Speaker 1: that were part of Live Aid. Also in eighty five,

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Speaker 1: a lot was going on in Perth. You were working

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Speaker 1: at the again, you Cassino, weren't you with that opening stages.

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Speaker 3: I was there that opening night. Bit of bed the

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Speaker 3: dishwashers hadn't been delivered yet and we were out the

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Speaker 3: back plunging glasses into buckets.

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Speaker 1: How disgusting.

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Speaker 4: It was discussed.

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Speaker 3: So we were using real orange juice. So all the

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Speaker 3: high boards we covered in little bits of orange juice.

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Speaker 1: It was great, a bit of pop going on. Yes,

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Speaker 1: So the casino opened on December thirty, nineteen eighty five.

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Speaker 1: Least it was working there and a million visitors went

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Speaker 1: to the casino in the first one million, one million.

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Speaker 1: Did you something tired?

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Speaker 3: I was?

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Speaker 1: And everyone was well dressed at the start, didn't They

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Speaker 1: had pretty fancy dressed And then it was like they

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Speaker 1: got the bit slacker. Yeah, as the numbers faded, the

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Speaker 1: Whacker lights were brand new, so you had the Whacker

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Speaker 1: and Glosster Park glowing at that eastern end of the city.

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Speaker 1: And now it's all about colored lights, isn't it. The

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Speaker 1: West Australian newspaper in nineteen eighty five cost forty cents

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Speaker 1: and a lot more people used to pick up a

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Speaker 1: newspaper and actually read it. Funny that the top videos

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Speaker 1: how big was going to a video in the mid eighties,

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Speaker 1: going to a video shop, into a video shop, video shop, romantic.

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Speaker 3: Reserve, I know you new released.

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Speaker 1: Movie, absolutely and then you get the dregs if you

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Speaker 1: got there too late or you didn't reserve. Michael Douglas

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Speaker 1: in Romancing the Stone, Tom Hanks and Daryl Hannah in

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Speaker 1: Splash Trading Places with Eddie Murphy and Dan Ackroyd. What

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Speaker 1: a movie that one was about this fut Anna wats

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Speaker 1: your bag?

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Speaker 2: Then?

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Speaker 4: Can you get?

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Speaker 3: I bet that that man could run our company as

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Speaker 3: well as Wind saw it.

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Speaker 1: Well, this is outrageous, and I haven't done anything wrong.

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Speaker 1: I'm not a thick.

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Speaker 4: Where what I held you, mister Valentine with a homeward

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Speaker 4: your own?

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Speaker 2: And that was a fig.

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Speaker 4: We've paid forty five thousand dollars for it. That employment

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Speaker 4: with our company.

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Speaker 1: No one laughed like Eddie Murphy and he's heyday right there,

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Speaker 1: of course, with Dono Meegi and Ralph Bellamy with their

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Speaker 1: wonderful performances as well. Susanna Carr joined the seven News team,

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Speaker 1: of course in eighty five. We know all about that

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Speaker 1: her union with Rick now forty years Michael Jackson came

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Speaker 1: for Telethon but didn't perform because he was doing the

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Speaker 1: deal with Rupert Holmes Court over the The Beatles songwrits

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Speaker 1: visitors to perth in nineteen eighty five musically included Van Morrison,

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Speaker 1: the amazing Neil Young, Giant, Number Trading, and the Stranglers.

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Speaker 2: Bad White, Great Song, Bad White.

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Speaker 1: Major artists making their chart debut in eighty five included,

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Speaker 1: as we mentioned Sting earlier without his policemates, Whitney Houston, OMD,

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Speaker 1: David Lee Roth, Simple Minds, and it's quite a list

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Speaker 1: of the newcomers. An album that was incredible.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Record of the Record of the year was We Are

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Speaker 1: the World USA for Africa as we know. The song

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Speaker 1: of the Year was we Are the World. Best New

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Speaker 1: Artist was Shade the smooth Operator, wasn't She? And at

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Speaker 1: the Academy Awards, the Oscar for Best Picture went Out

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Speaker 1: of Africa. Best Actor was the brilliant William Hurt Bill

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Speaker 1: Hurt in Kiss of the Spider Woman. That film silent,

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Speaker 1: along with the incredible Round Julia Pent of.

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Speaker 5: Time in a tropical island are away There lift was strange.

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Speaker 5: How can you remember all that junk?

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Speaker 4: If you've got the keys to that door, I will

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Speaker 4: gladly follow, Otherwise I will escape in my own way.

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Speaker 1: Those two together on the screen.

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Speaker 3: I need to watch that movie me too.

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Speaker 1: The Best Actress went to Geraldine Page for the trip

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Speaker 1: to Bounty, for which I didn't see, but I did see.

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Speaker 1: I'm not sure did anyone be Someone beat Baryl Streep

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Speaker 1: in the mid eighties. Incredible that William Purt What a star.

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Speaker 1: The Tragic Music Box from eighty five on ninety six.

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Speaker 5: Every