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Speaker 1: Your hand. I'm ready, you're ready for the kid music.

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

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Speaker 1: Tragic Music Box, all right, okay, you ready? Yep, Tragic

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Speaker 1: music Box meet music Box today. From nineteen eighty one.

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Speaker 1: It was such a fresh faced young thing, just a

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Speaker 1: little thing, and you haven't changed. Eighty one was the

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Speaker 1: year English band Madness played a gig at the Perth

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Speaker 1: Concert Hall after the assembled Skinheads with a couple of

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Speaker 1: our school agreement. After the assembled Skinheads from London Court, yeah, exactly,

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Speaker 1: because of London, they were told to remove their bother

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Speaker 1: boots and line them up in the foyer. How do

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Speaker 1: you reckon that went down? And of course Madness literally

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Speaker 1: ensued with the first fifteen rows of the seats absolutely

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Speaker 1: smash destroyed and the windows kicked in. I knew that

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Speaker 1: did it happen, but I didn't know it was because

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Speaker 1: they'd been asked to take off their boots and line

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Speaker 1: them up. Gentlemen, if you can take your bobber boots

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Speaker 1: off and line them up in the foyer, has fun,

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Speaker 1: has a fun fun. I don't know if it was

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Speaker 1: a lot of fun for the concert hall staff. They

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Speaker 1: were said to be a shot, and a spokesperson first said,

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Speaker 1: concert Hall staff said, this has never happened. When Silla

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Speaker 1: Black or max Bygrave played here in the past on

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Speaker 1: TV in nineteen eighty one, least, we were watching a

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Speaker 1: new Aussie drama called A Country Practice, Good Old Wanderon Valley,

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Speaker 1: The Life of Times of Grizzled Life and Times of

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Speaker 1: Grizzly Adams from America that was different and American heart

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Speaker 1: throb Greg Evigan as a truck driver named b J

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Speaker 1: McKay and his best friend was a chimpanzee. You can't

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Speaker 1: write this stuff, can you? Well they did. It was

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Speaker 1: a chimpanzee. His name was Bear and it was BJ

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Speaker 1: and the Bear cheesy. Oh my god. You know when

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Speaker 1: you here's something that you haven't heard forty years and

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Speaker 1: it just feels like it was yesterday. The beer Lord

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Speaker 1: so bizarre, Okay, cheesy. What was hot in nineteen ninety one, Well,

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Speaker 1: for some after doing some research, cord Roy shorts, cord

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Speaker 1: Roy shorts, cord Roy shorts, spell, Cordroy knickerbockers. Yeah, nine,

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Speaker 1: I never liked Safari se pants or shorts. Make a decision.

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Speaker 1: Suits were still in me, mentioned Dad Don Dunstan from

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Speaker 1: South Australia. My dad had Safari suits sitting in with

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Speaker 1: the shorts, long socks in a range of color. That's

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Speaker 1: hair and pants were big in nineteen eighty hating them.

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Speaker 1: Look like you've done something in your pants. Really. In

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Speaker 1: October of eighty one, a young Australian band, former of

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Speaker 1: Perth in Excess, went to the next level with their

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Speaker 1: second album, Underneath the Colors, was produced by Aussie rock

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Speaker 1: legend Richard Clapton, and the songs were good. You could

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Speaker 1: tell that we're going to take on the work and

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Speaker 1: they just there were some signs they had it in

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Speaker 1: Spade swagger and the song in the Daily News, our

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Speaker 1: afternoon paper newspaper which you could buy from a kid

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Speaker 1: in the city who sounded just like that, ready for

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Speaker 1: the bus right home because you get the bus. I

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Speaker 1: remember getting on the bustaft to do some work experience

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Speaker 1: and all you'd see is in the pages of the

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Speaker 1: back in front page. There were two yeah, the traditions

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Speaker 1: that yeah, man after newspaper and the kids. Yeah, we'd

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Speaker 1: be in the street game daily news paper and from

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Speaker 1: the pages of the paper. Premier Sir Charles court I

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Speaker 1: said on this day, and the average member of State

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Speaker 1: Parliament wasn't paid enough. At twenty eight thousand dollars a

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Speaker 1: year one it was a pretty handy wage. Okay, eighty one,

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Speaker 1: got some rapid fireffacts for you. In nineteen eighty one,

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Speaker 1: Trevor Chappel bold under arm. Blame his brother Greg. That

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Speaker 1: was a moment. In nineteen eighty one, Robert Redford was

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Speaker 1: the hot man in Hollywood. Yeah. In nineteen eighty one,

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Speaker 1: a median house price in Mount Lawley fifty four thousand

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Speaker 1: bucks stop. In nineteen eighty one, Smiley Pasco was nine.

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Speaker 1: How cute is that? Guess what he was doing? Smiley?

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Speaker 1: You're telling you how Christmas? Course and excited about Santa.

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Speaker 1: To wrap today's sticky beak in the box lease, we

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Speaker 1: feature an album called Dare by English synth pop band

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Speaker 1: The Humanly, one of the greatest albums of the early eighties.

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Speaker 1: Despite being the band's third album, was the first with

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Speaker 1: the new lineup led by frontman Philip Pokey and with

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Speaker 1: a more commercial sound in mind. Okie recruited a pair

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Speaker 1: of high school students, Joe Anne Castrol and Susan Saley's

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Speaker 1: background singers, and it just took off, joining the wave

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Speaker 1: of UK bands who were experimenting with synthesizers like Ultravox,

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Speaker 1: depeche Mode and spanned out Ballet and this new technology

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Speaker 1: hop humanly hit the sweet spot with the album there

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Speaker 1: it did. The first single, Love Action, went to number

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Speaker 1: three in the UK chart, number twelve here in Australia,

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Speaker 1: and we've fell in love with them and that album yeah,

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Speaker 1: the album right, I had the album just about wore

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Speaker 1: it out with the white cart We're in the close

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Speaker 1: up fighter yep. Only months later the flood goes Open

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Speaker 1: with a single called Don't You Want Me, raced to

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Speaker 1: number one in the UK and the US and they

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Speaker 1: were off, off and racing. It was the biggest selling

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Speaker 1: UK single of eighty one and the coveted Christmas number one.

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Speaker 1: And of course there's more to Dere than the two

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Speaker 1: monster hits. The third single open Your Heart, the menacing

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Speaker 1: song seconds and they're pretty much ignored. First single the

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Speaker 1: Sound of the Crowd, and there was an instrumental called

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Speaker 1: get Carter which was great to start up. Track two

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Speaker 1: or side to all Help Dare sell over six million

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Speaker 1: copies worldwide, and Philip Oki is still touring with his modern,

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Speaker 1: updated version I think one of the girls is still

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Speaker 1: in the band. For human Aka and his voice, it's

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Speaker 1: the same. I saw him a couple of years ago.

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Speaker 1: Very good The Tragic Music Box from nineteen eighty one

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Speaker 1: on ninety six a FM