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

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Speaker 2: Crazy's Tragic Music Box.

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Speaker 1: All right, right, right, alright, ready to go back, Yes,

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Speaker 1: because it's nineteen eighty nine to day, and it was

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Speaker 1: a fabulous year because of the obvious we met. It's

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Speaker 1: the year we met, Yes, very self indulged at to

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Speaker 1: start a little old Eagle, a radio station called the

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Speaker 1: Eagle that didn't really fly.

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Speaker 2: Well, it was AM and it didn't quite the l

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Speaker 2: that was in the days where it was all a you.

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Speaker 1: Know, a bit of an auction, silent yes, silent ballet.

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Speaker 2: Right, it was yeah, and we missed out by well,

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Speaker 2: let's just say we could have passed.

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Speaker 1: The hat around it got us over the line. It

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Speaker 1: was not. It was pretty unfortunate. Things would have been

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Speaker 1: very different. It was to be called rock. Yeah, Rock

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Speaker 1: ninety three was going to be called one. That's all

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Speaker 1: in the past.

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Speaker 2: Two.

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Speaker 1: Nineteen eighty nine is the year, and Michael Keaton was Batman.

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Speaker 1: Let's be honest. He was so damn wasn't he.

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Speaker 2: My favorite Batman other than of course you know the

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Speaker 2: real Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely, Mel Gibson returned as that loose cannon cop Martin

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Speaker 1: Riggs in Leith weapon Io with that killer Hollywood Mullet

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Speaker 1: and Robin Williams served up an inspired performance in Dead

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Speaker 1: Poets Society. If you were thinking Robin was just a

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Speaker 1: comedic performer before some of those great dramatic roles, so

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Speaker 1: damn good Clarby starts make your lives extraord's me chills.

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Speaker 1: Actually it was.

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Speaker 2: It was a brilliant film and I can never watch

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Speaker 2: the end of it once.

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Speaker 1: Oh watched it just to go time. Yeah, it was

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Speaker 1: pretty good. Maybe want to stand on the desk. Tours

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Speaker 1: to Perth in nineteen eighty nine included noise works, Chris

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Speaker 1: de Burgh, Hoodoo Gurus, James Rain and Jimmy Barnes, and

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Speaker 1: thirty six years later they've all played here or all

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Speaker 1: scheduled to play gigs in Perth in twenty twenty five.

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Speaker 1: Now that's staying power. Speaking of which, the epitome of

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Speaker 1: staying power, in fact, it's in the dictionary is Ricard

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Speaker 1: and Susanna car They were into their fourth year together

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Speaker 1: reading news on seven Peres now forty and if you've

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Speaker 1: switched over on the same night to Channel nine, you

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Speaker 1: got Peter Wally Walthman and Conti at the news desk. YEP,

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Speaker 1: funny how times change. Some useless stats from eighty nine.

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Speaker 1: This is true. Meg Ryan tried on six hundred pairs

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Speaker 1: of sunglasses before choosing the pair she wore in the

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Speaker 1: movie when Harry met Sally. How bizarre. No one not

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Speaker 1: to me.

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Speaker 2: That many pairs of sunglasses when I was, you know,

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Speaker 2: buying a pair.

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Speaker 1: At that stage, No one and the crew said I'll

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Speaker 1: have what she's having because it takes too long. At

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Speaker 1: New York's Whitney Museum of American Art, they displayed Yoko

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Speaker 1: Ono's film Bottom Features. Of course they did. It was

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Speaker 1: a bit of a plan of music. It featured eighty

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Speaker 1: minutes of footage of people's naked backsides. And it's on YouTube,

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Speaker 1: but be worn. There are lots of hairy bums and

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Speaker 1: people walking away from the from the camera. That's art,

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Speaker 1: that's us, that's usty. They could have played the soundtrack

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Speaker 1: of some of her best hits nineteen eighty it is,

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Speaker 1: it's on YouTube, but don't maybe don't google it on

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Speaker 1: the work computer. Nineteen eighty nine was the year we

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Speaker 1: lost American actor Jim Backus. Now, of course he was

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Speaker 1: he ever said lovey, how he was the selfish millionaire first,

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Speaker 1: and how the third on Gilligan's Island, but also the

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Speaker 1: Star and Voice have missed him ago borrowed up. Oh

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Speaker 1: my good if you got it again, the memory too

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Speaker 1: of your childhood.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely.

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Speaker 1: A copy of The West Australian in nineteen eighty nine

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Speaker 1: was fifty cents petrol and Perth was about sixty cents

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Speaker 1: a leader. A lot of things you do for under

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Speaker 1: a buck one hundred dollars in nineteen eighty nine had

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Speaker 1: the same buying power of about two hundred and sixty

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Speaker 1: dollars today, right. I thought we'd wrap it today at

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Speaker 1: least with someone who you and I know very well,

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Speaker 1: and a song that the meteoric rise of a young

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Speaker 1: guitarist and singer songwriter from Scarborough Senior High School, Markazott

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Speaker 1: as Johnny Diesel and the Ejectors. That first album went

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Speaker 1: to number two on the Aussie Album Chart and gave

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Speaker 1: us three two Yeah I know, gave us three top

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Speaker 1: ten singles Don't Need Love, Cry and Shame at the

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Speaker 1: Old Soul Revival from the Tragic Music Box from nineteen

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Speaker 1: eighty nine on ninety six AFM