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Speaker 1: N The Shore Report on ninety six airm ah.

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Speaker 2: Yes, this morning, we are taking a look back at

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Speaker 2: what would have been in The Shore Report in nineteen

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Speaker 2: eighty four, starting with Hollywood's Night of Nights. The Academy

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Speaker 2: Awards were handed out on April nine in nineteen eighty four.

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Speaker 2: In the Night pretty much belonged to the film terms

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Speaker 2: of endearment. It had eleven nominations and at won five

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Speaker 2: of them, including Best Pitcher and Best Director and Best Screenplay.

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Speaker 2: Shirley McLain won Best Actress and Jack Nicholson one Best

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Speaker 2: Supporting Actor.

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Speaker 1: Well, thanks to the members of the Academy for this

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Speaker 1: wonderful honor. It's nice when you the producer and the

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Speaker 1: director and the writers. There are one man, Jim Brooks.

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Speaker 1: He did everything for us in terms of engearment and

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Speaker 1: including rating eleven versions of this.

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Speaker 2: Speech, Jack being very much Jack. Robert Duval won Best

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Speaker 2: Actor that night for the film Tender Mercies, and Linda

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Speaker 2: Hunt won Best Supporting Actress for the Year of Living Dangerously.

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Speaker 2: Wonderful movie The Year of Living Dangerously with Mel Gibson

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Speaker 2: and Sigourney Weaver, and it stands a test of times.

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Speaker 2: If you haven't seen it, Put it on your list.

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Speaker 2: The Grammy Awards were held on February twenty eight. In

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Speaker 2: nineteen eighty four, Michael Jackson won a record eight awards,

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Speaker 2: and that night he was still recovering from the scalp

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Speaker 2: burns he suffered filming a Pepsi commercial right that had

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Speaker 2: just happened. On January twenty seventh, he was rushed to

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Speaker 2: hospital when his hair caught on fire in the freak

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Speaker 2: filming accident.

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Speaker 3: As they were filming an epic live performance scene, Jackson

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Speaker 3: was asked to stand a little too close to where

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Speaker 3: the pyrotechnics were going off. In an instant, the magic

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Speaker 3: turned into mayhem when an unexpected spark ignated Jackson's hair

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Speaker 3: in flames. Michael Jackson was rushed to the hospital. While

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Speaker 3: transporting him, EMTs tried to take off his iconic silver glove,

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Speaker 3: but Jackson insisted to keep it on him, saying to them,

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Speaker 3: the media.

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Speaker 2: Is here, classy, don't take the glove. Don't take my glow.

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Speaker 2: Song of the Year that night went to Every Breath

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Speaker 2: You Take, and the Best New Artist Grammy went to

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Speaker 2: Culture Club, Oh Beautiful. The Countdown Awards for the year

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Speaker 2: of nineteen eighty four were held at the Sydney Entertainment

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Speaker 2: Center and hosted by Greedy Smith from The Mentals. Best

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Speaker 2: Album was The Swing. Best Debut Album was the Hoodoo

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Speaker 2: Guru Stone Age Romeos and She Told Me Love Tojo

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Speaker 2: It's a deadly quick side note, the Hoodoo Gurus have

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Speaker 2: literally announced overnight to celebrate the fortieth anniversary Stone Age Romeos,

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Speaker 2: they're going to perform the album in its entirety in

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Speaker 2: a show at the Astatheater on December three.

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Speaker 3: I do you think Dave Fort's listening?

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Speaker 2: Sign me up?

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Speaker 3: We might have inspired him.

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Speaker 2: Back to the Countdown Awards, the Best Female Performer was

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Speaker 2: Sharon O'Neill and Best Male was Michael Hutchins in Excess's

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Speaker 2: Burned for You One. Best Group Performance in a Video

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Speaker 2: and Andrew Farris and Michael Hutchins won Best Songwriters. Just

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Speaker 2: a reminder, Andrew Ferris is joining us for a whole

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Speaker 2: hour at eight o'clock. Some of the big names we

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Speaker 2: lost in nineteen eighty four include Marvin Gaye, shot and

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Speaker 2: killed by his own father at age forty four. Richard Burton,

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Speaker 2: the great actor who married Elizabeth Taylor twice, died from

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Speaker 2: a massive drink induced brain hemorrhage. He was only fifty eight.

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Speaker 2: I didn't realize that Richard Burton was so young.

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Speaker 3: That he's very young, isn't it.

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Speaker 2: Fifth actor James Mason here of the Most Divine Voice,

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Speaker 2: died at sixty five. We also lost ethel Mermon at

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Speaker 2: seventy five, one half of morcamb And wis Eric Morecambe

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Speaker 2: at fifty eight. Also and singer Jackie Wilson just forty nine.

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Speaker 2: Closer to home, the tragic death of Australian Crawls guitarist

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Speaker 2: Guy McDonough. He was lead singer on Errol and Oh No,

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Speaker 2: Not You Again. He died a viral pneumonia at just

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Speaker 2: twenty nine. A couple of other things From nineteen eighty four,

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Speaker 2: Bert Newton won the Gold LOGI Hey Hey, It's Saturday.

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Speaker 2: Moved from Saturday mornings to Saturday nights. Tau Valandan took

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Speaker 2: the world by storm ice skating at the Winter Olympics

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Speaker 2: to Balero. Oh I couldn't skate, but I'd slide down

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Speaker 2: the hall.

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Speaker 3: In my sock. Oh yeah, yeah, it was dangerous.

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Speaker 2: Chrissy Heine from The Pretender's Married, Jim Kerr from Simple Minds,

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Speaker 2: Slim Jim fandom from the Stray Cats married Bretecklan, who

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Speaker 2: was in Rod Stewart's Tonight's The Night video. Elton John

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Speaker 2: married Nada Blau and the most unexpected nuptials of the year.

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Speaker 2: And of course nineteen eighty four was the year Bob

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Speaker 2: Geldoff and Midgure from Ultravox to eemed up to put

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Speaker 2: together this well Boto making sure he got a big

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Speaker 2: sticking Oh yeah, he had to build it out.

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Speaker 3: I'm not coming in.

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Speaker 2: Let's I get a big bit bad aids. Do they

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Speaker 2: know it's Christmas? Came out December third, nineteen eighty four.

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Speaker 2: Within a year, and this was nineteen eighty four, within

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Speaker 2: one year, it raised more than fifteen million dollars for

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Speaker 2: Ethiopian family relief