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Speaker 1: So Claisy, we must have a chat about a little something.

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Speaker 1: Well actually it's a very big something.

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Speaker 2: Very big something, sneaky.

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Speaker 1: But all right, so not exactly your birthday birthday, but

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Speaker 1: your radio birthday. Today Miss Dean Claire's celebrates forty years

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Speaker 1: working in radio, forty years on the wireless.

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Speaker 3: That is quite something.

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Speaker 1: Congratulations, my friend, And take us back to where it

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Speaker 1: all started. The year was nineteen eighty three and the

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Speaker 1: first location on your journey was the Wheat belt town

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Speaker 1: of Meriden.

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Speaker 3: Halfway to Calgooley.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely did that happen were you were? You were doing

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Speaker 1: media studies.

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Speaker 4: I did many studies at school and I rang Gary

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Speaker 4: Roberts from ninety six am. I said, oh can I

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Speaker 4: get a job? And he went, He gave me the

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Speaker 4: deep voice. I said, most of migos had done ten

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Speaker 4: years experience, go and get some. So I did, and

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Speaker 4: I got an interview up in Meriton and and flecked

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Speaker 4: the job.

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Speaker 1: It took you about five minutes to become the breakfast announcer,

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Speaker 1: and you also covered football on the weekends. I guess

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Speaker 1: what you talked about was West Perth.

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Speaker 2: Of course and Eastern District's before League of course.

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Speaker 3: After mered and you moved to Bombury.

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Speaker 1: Yes, so you were following the advice of mister Roberts,

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Speaker 1: getting that work my way around experience.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, absolutely, I thought that was going to get me

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Speaker 4: a mid dawn spot on ninety six AM.

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Speaker 2: Isn't that funny?

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Speaker 1: And before you worked in Perth after these ones, you

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Speaker 1: actually went to Adelaide for a while.

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Speaker 4: I went to Canberra first, Cambra. Yeah, there was an

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Speaker 4: FM cold well I got there was forty degrees. No

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Speaker 4: one had told me it got hot this summer. You

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Speaker 4: inspect your warm clow first week at the Canberra Pool.

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Speaker 1: So then you went to SAFM and Adelaide and then

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Speaker 1: in nineteen eighty nine this is where we met.

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Speaker 3: This is how long we've got each other.

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Speaker 1: You returned to Perth as an announcer and music director

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Speaker 1: at the short lived Some of us are going to

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Speaker 1: remember this a radio station called the Eagle.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, ten eight the Eagle.

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Speaker 1: It was an AM station and it was the idea

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Speaker 1: was to get one of those FM licenses to FM

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Speaker 1: and we didn't get it.

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Speaker 2: The Egle failed.

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Speaker 3: Do you remember back then?

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Speaker 1: It was like it was a private bid that radio

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Speaker 1: stations put in and we're talking millions of dollars, of course,

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Speaker 1: and what we missed out, the amount we missed out

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Speaker 1: on we could have passed a hat around the office.

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Speaker 3: It was so so.

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Speaker 2: Close, just a few grand apparently.

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Speaker 1: So then fast forward to nineteen ninety one, because the

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Speaker 1: Eagle didn't work out for either of us, I went

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Speaker 1: east and you went to pm FM six pm ninety

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Speaker 1: two point nine, and you stayed there for quite a while.

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Speaker 1: And then in two thousand and one we met up

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Speaker 1: again when at the old at the other place across

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Speaker 1: the road was a trend developing.

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Speaker 4: Less is following you to radio stations.

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Speaker 1: Certainly I came here, turn around, it's behind body stalker.

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Speaker 2: Sorry, And that was.

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Speaker 3: Late twenty twenty, and the rest has been history.

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Speaker 1: You go back together again, so you've it's been a

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Speaker 1: stellar career and you've been lucky enough to meet some

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Speaker 1: amazing people. My favorite photo of you with someone is

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Speaker 1: when you're interviewing Bruce Springsteen.

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Speaker 3: It was he did that.

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Speaker 1: Open call down where the concert was.

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Speaker 3: Because you're so tall.

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Speaker 1: You just leaned your arm up above everyone else and

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Speaker 1: you've got this direct sight between the two of you.

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Speaker 3: It is such a classic photo.

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Speaker 4: I'dnice to be about relationships, and I said, because he

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Speaker 4: married Patty known her forever. I said, we just give

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Speaker 4: up on the social media stuff and click.

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Speaker 3: You're asking Bruce for a relationship, but don't swipe right

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Speaker 3: or left.

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Speaker 4: You just got to go through your you know, your

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Speaker 4: books of who you've known in the past. And I've

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Speaker 4: got him laughing, which was a real treat.

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Speaker 1: So it was nineteen eighty three. Some big things happen

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Speaker 1: in nineteen eighty three. I was the entrepreneur, aviator and philanthropist.

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Speaker 1: Dick Smith made history by completing his first solo helicopter

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Speaker 1: flight around the world. Meryl Street won the Best Actress

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Speaker 1: Oscar for Sophie's Choice, Ben Kingsley won the Best Actor

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Speaker 1: for Gandhi, and Al Pacino's scar Face took the box

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Speaker 1: office by storm.

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Speaker 2: Do you want to play?

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Speaker 1: Shut Off?

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Speaker 3: To My List?

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Speaker 1: Cold Chisel performed their farewell show on December fifteen at

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Speaker 1: the newly opened Sydney Entertainment Center after over a decade together.

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Speaker 3: It didn't take obviously.

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Speaker 1: The final episode of The Sullivans on March the tenth

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Speaker 1: about Damn This wore Grace and it was a big

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Speaker 1: year for technology. In nineteen eighty three, as IBM launched

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Speaker 1: its personal computer in Australia. With the aid of a

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Speaker 1: Charlie Chaplin impersonator, the Internet was born.

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Speaker 2: Oh that's not a good memory. Hello, oh dear. We

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Speaker 2: used to listen to this. Yeah, but e three time

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Speaker 2: we dialed out, we thought we were Bill Gates, didn't we?

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Speaker 1: First of all, we had to tell everyone to get

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Speaker 1: off the phone because I'm playing the Internet in It

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Speaker 1: was a huge year in music, the reason you got

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Speaker 1: into radio in the first place. Some of the top

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Speaker 1: songs were David Boys, Let's Dance and Tops and Twins,

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Speaker 1: Hold Me Now and this one well She's sexy?

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Speaker 3: Wow, go ahead on the seed?

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Speaker 4: Did that sound check down?

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Speaker 3: Oh the Stray Cat Sex seventeen?

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Speaker 1: There was Talking Heads, Burning down the House, Wams, Bad

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Speaker 1: Boys and who can forget this.

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Speaker 2: Summer?

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Speaker 4: On the rock?

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Speaker 2: I had the right hand palm.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, what did we all?

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Speaker 1: My hair was was just a touch higher than yours.

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Speaker 1: Come and fill the noise with the z by quiet right.

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Speaker 1: Paul Young had his two huge hits, Wherever I Lay

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Speaker 1: My Hat and Love of the Common People, both in

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Speaker 1: nineteen eighty three, And how many times did this one

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Speaker 1: get played at the Roller skating rink, but.

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Speaker 2: It's too little it Wow.

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Speaker 3: I loved that song.

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Speaker 2: What a bangger did You do? That speedch gap to the.

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Speaker 1: Police's Every Breath You Take dominated the charts in nineteen

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Speaker 1: eighty three. The single spent eight weeks at number one

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Speaker 1: on Billboards Top one hundred, making it the year's top song. However,

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Speaker 1: that didn't make it the most played song of nineteen

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Speaker 1: eighty three. That was something else. That honor went to

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Speaker 1: Culture Club's harm a Chameleon.

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Speaker 3: Nineteen eighty three, Quite the year.

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Speaker 4: Congratulations please thanks Buddy Cheesu Gopick completely