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

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Speaker 2: Clezies Tragic Music Box.

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Speaker 3: You're grooming. It's been a long weekend.

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Speaker 1: Never gets old.

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Speaker 3: That's pretty cool, right are you ready for it?

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Speaker 1: We're going back to as you said, it was a

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Speaker 1: good year nineteen eighty seven on the Tragic Music Box

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Speaker 1: this morning and Lisa, I will kick off with sport.

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Speaker 1: Nineteen eighty seven was the start of it all for

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Speaker 1: our West Coast Eagles here and here in Perth when

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Speaker 1: they beat Richmond at Subi Oval. Great comeback in that

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Speaker 1: first game in the expanded VFL competition. Our mate Adrian

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Speaker 1: Barratch doesn't remember a lot because I'm pretty sure he

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Speaker 1: was in the rooms with a broken cheek bone.

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Speaker 2: A broken cheek bone.

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Speaker 3: We should get Barre on the show to talk about it.

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Speaker 3: A reckon.

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Speaker 2: Oh that's yeah, that's very specific, isn't it.

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Speaker 1: You find you for the first game in history and

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Speaker 1: he missed a lot of it anyway. In June of

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Speaker 1: eighty seven, Kerry Stokes looks set to buy the entertainment

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Speaker 1: center in Wellington Street and he was going to put

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Speaker 1: TV studios in there, Channel seven down then now that

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Speaker 1: didn't happen, but I'm not surprised nearly fifty years later

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Speaker 1: that Kerry and Twiggy and Gina owned almost everything in

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Speaker 1: per Just the Way It Goes fashion in nineteen eighty seven,

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Speaker 1: tell us if any of these sit true with you.

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Speaker 1: Shoulder pads, yes, black denim, faked lizard and crocodile skin,

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Speaker 1: accessories like bags and belts. No, this one was for

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Speaker 1: someone I know. Long hair for men. I mean, fancy

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Speaker 1: having a bloke having long hair down to his bum

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Speaker 1: in nineteen eighty seven.

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Speaker 3: Think he was a member of Motley Crue.

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Speaker 2: Not all that way down there, but I did lack

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Speaker 2: a mass had.

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Speaker 3: A hair fair way down here. Yeah, how many times

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Speaker 3: I heard get your handcut and get a real job,

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Speaker 3: get a real job. That didn't happen.

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Speaker 1: And the Oscars In eighty seven, Lease Oliver Stone's Vietnam

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Speaker 1: epic Platoon won Best Oh yes, that was before Charlie Sheen.

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Speaker 1: One of the stars had Tiger Blood a long time ago.

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Speaker 1: What a lineup, what a cast. Willem Dafoe, Tom Bereringer,

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Speaker 1: Johnny Depp and twenty two year old Kevin Dylan were

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Speaker 1: all in that one.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: And at the Grammy's Paul Simon's blend of American and

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Speaker 1: South African musicians won him Album of the Year for

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Speaker 1: the Wonderful Grace Lamp on the TV.

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Speaker 3: Well we know who reigned Supremelce.

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Speaker 1: It was the Golden Girl, never has been, never will be.

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Speaker 2: Another show like it.

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Speaker 1: And here at Home I remember there was big in America,

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Speaker 1: big in Australia as well, but here at Home Ray

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Speaker 1: Martin won the gold LOGI plenty of Australian Golden Girls

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Speaker 1: and others loved the sweet Ray with his perfect hair

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Speaker 1: I love and his cheeky smile on the midday show

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Speaker 1: of course, and in gigs.

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Speaker 3: A lot of touring artists came to Perth. We're getting

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Speaker 3: more and more of yer.

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Speaker 1: So in March and it was March nine and ten

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Speaker 1: weik nights here in Perst school nights. In nineteen eighty seven,

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Speaker 1: Texan Rock Is Easy Top rolled into town and they

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Speaker 1: were big news at the time. You know, they had

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Speaker 1: those funny videos and that on MTV and the rest

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Speaker 1: of it. They did backbacks mates, yell the moves week.

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Speaker 2: Did you not expect it?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? It was a side step, wasn't it?

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Speaker 1: From the two boys out front there after Burner whil

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Speaker 1: Tour finally hit Perth. Firstly support act Angry Anderson. I

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Speaker 1: remember because I was there. It was bloody loud. Him

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Speaker 1: and his mates from Rose Tattoo kicked off the night

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Speaker 1: with an ear bleeding set of rock, Ossie pub Rock,

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Speaker 1: bad Boy for Love, we Can't Be Beaten and rock

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Speaker 1: and roll out Law and made sure that your ribcage

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Speaker 1: was shaking to get you warmed up for the tops. Now.

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Speaker 1: Then it went over the top with the masters of

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Speaker 1: Texan boogie woogie blues, Billy Gibbons and Dusty Hill out

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Speaker 1: front on guitar and on bass. They were you wouldn't

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Speaker 1: expect them to be dance move guys, but they had

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Speaker 1: that little sideway shuffle and they'd shuffle back. Remember the

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Speaker 1: spinning guitars, they go around around in circles. It was

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Speaker 1: always a yes, that's true. Unfortunately they couldn't get the

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Speaker 1: fancy sports cars on the stage, but drummer Frank Beard

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Speaker 1: and then the joke is that he was the one

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Speaker 1: without the beard. They ended the stage with no hype,

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Speaker 1: no bs, just a great bag of songs, long beards

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Speaker 1: and some big hats. And I'll tell you what they

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Speaker 1: didn't disappoint They started with got Me under Pressure from

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Speaker 1: the previous album Eliminator. We Got Plenty from the most

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Speaker 1: recent album at the time after Burner, Sleeping Bag and

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Speaker 1: Rough Boy, was the ballad Can't Stop Rocking and Valcrow

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Speaker 1: Fly made an appearance and a real treat early in

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Speaker 1: the gig was a couple of the oldies from the

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Speaker 1: seventy three album Trey Hombree. We got Jesus just left

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Speaker 1: Chicago and waiting for the bus. So the fan, the

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Speaker 1: long term fans are really excited. We got the Monster

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Speaker 1: hits legs and sharp dress Man, gimme all your loving,

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Speaker 1: all your hugs and kisses too proving And that was

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Speaker 1: the moment where Perth fans just absolutely went off and

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Speaker 1: the crowd was as loud as Billy Gibbons guitar. It

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Speaker 1: was incredible. And the one thing about that night Lisa

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Speaker 1: been some really loud three piece bands in rock history,

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Speaker 1: cream one of them the Vanna of course, and the

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Speaker 1: Jimmy Hendrix experience. But at times that night, at the

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Speaker 1: ends end, they sounded like a jet taking off as

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Speaker 1: Easy Top. It was that loud. It was incredible. So

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Speaker 1: on The Tragic Music Box nineteen eighty seven. We celebrate

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Speaker 1: on ninety six AFM