November 27, 2023 • 5 mins
Once again Clairsy has dug out his tragic music box and transports us back to 1980.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Delving deep into the archives of Perth music history, crazies,
tragic music box. Today we're going back way back to
nineteen eighty. Okay, nineteen eighty and nineteen eighty. Didn't we
think we were so cool with a walkman on?
Speaker 2 (00:19):
We thought we were so futuristic, so cool, so cool,
so cool.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
They had that little thing around your neck and those
little headphones on. Some people were jogging a.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Rock still handbag.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Yeah that's right, jogging a roller skating with that thing
attached to your belt. Yeah, yeah, absolutely, with the tiny
shorts on, with the piping on the edges, or the memories.
Some people just reached, of course for the floor of
the old Ford swimming tablets. Remember the Ford swimming tabs,
to remember those. They were heavily promoted across it, particularly
in America, but Nozzy's got into them as well.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Beware of the side effects because there were so many
side effects of those bloody things.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Not good.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Because the diet pill craze was huge at the movies Jane,
Lily Tomlin and Dolly Parton were of course, such a
big hit movie, wasn't it that one? Probably Jane thoughts,
I'm probably doing pills especially Jane. She was saying she
was working out with the legwarmers.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Yeah, the Jane Fonder aerobics. I had the video.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Oh you had the video? Yes, yeah, awesome, that's thought.
Those lego womans look awesome. The English paparazzi Lisa in
nineteen eighty scored their first snap of Prince Charles's new girlfriend,
Lady Diana Spencer. Do you remember the shot? She had
a couple of kids with her, which of course weren't hers,
and she was wearing the.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Sea through striped shirt.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Yeah, they're just having to get the shot with the
sun behind her on TV. Dallas was absolutely huge. Used
to love the shot at the start where you saw
all those mirror of the windowed buildings in Dallas, Texas. Yeah,
so incredible huge. Wasn't it a massive show? And no
(01:55):
bigger than this stage in nineteen eighty when you know
Who shot Jr? Those big episodes and we're all wondering
what was going on. Eighty three million Americans, so nearly
half of the US population watched the Who Shot.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Jail end of seasonal cliffhangers.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
They had bilmed three different outcomes they had to try
to under wraps imagine how long you'd keep something like
that under wraps.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
For these days, it's impossible.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
It wouldn't even make it to the showing of the
episode that was the cliffhanger, because it was just before
the season was released.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
At the time, it was just over two hundred million Americans,
so nearly half the population wanted to see who put
the bullet into Larry Hagman's grinning evil guy in the
Giant Cowboy hat. Oh j a ewing at home here
in Perth in nineteen eighty least, the state manager of
any financier investment company could rake in an incredible salary
of eighteen to twenty thousand dollars plus a company falcon.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Oh we The falcon was if you if your dad
had a company car.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Yeah, company car, because your mum could have had a
company car too, but.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
It was more likely your dad.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
Yeah, it was pretty flu You might as well have
had a pull and a cornetto every night.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Stop it, I mean, not a cornetto what was that
last pressure.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Drumsticking something like that.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
We just had the cheap ice block ones I did you, Yeah,
a block of land and Kingsley put your back fourteen
thousand dollars in nineteen eighty and how to think about this,
in nineteen eighty the Mitchell Freeway only went up to
Hutton Street.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Yeah, how bizarre is that?
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Yeah, the carn Up extension wouldn't be finished for another
three years. And going the other way, of course, the
Kunana Freeway went all the way down to Canning Highway.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Oh, it was really worth a point for Wow, so
bizarre is it? It got to South Street by nineteen eighty four.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Yeah, that was the next to the next installment. And
also in nineteen eighty. Look, we didn't mind a novelty
song one.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Somewhere, did you? Sorry? Just stuck in your head? Why
enough for Joe Dalgy another novelty song?
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Can I tell you? You know? We talk about novelty
songs that went to number one in fifteen countries.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
Sour it did he?
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Yeah? It was number one for eight weeks from November
of nineteen eighty. That's no accounting for However, the UK
love a novelty song, and even though he was American
who moved to Melbourne in the late seven it went
to number one in the UK. It went to number
one in Germany's time.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
We were not going to play it.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
New Zealand, Ireland. So now we're not because we're going
to talk about some real music here. December twenty and
twenty one, Lease Elton John had an album called twenty
one at thirty three and then the tour made it
to Perth earlier, a Deel style album. Exactly funny you
say that. Look he made it to Perth for shows
at our entertainment center. We're talking about nineteen eighty. The
(04:26):
gigs wrapped up a run of sixty three shows over
three and a half months. He was a busy boy.
And Elton and his band obviously they're in red hot
form and of course you know what bands are like
when they get to the end of a tour.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
They're having such a good time. In the eighties, we
were allowed to have it good and they.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Know they're going to get time off straight after and
they're here in summer. So the gig started with the
epic Funeral for a Friend and Love Lies Bleeding from
the album Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, and then it went
straight into the contrasting style of Tiny Dancer Beautiful, then
a track from the Goodbye Yellow Brick Road album we
speak of the title track and then Rocketman and Philadelphia
Freedom or was a concert favorite. Very Sweet Little Jeanie
(05:00):
was the hit single from that twenty one at thirty
three album. And as you mentioned about Adele or Taylor Swift,
you know, using ages and all the rest of it.
And in referring to album titles, twenty one at thirty
three was his twenty first album in total at that
stage at the age of thirty three. For elt So
it was all for a reason. We were treated, of
course to an emotional tribute for his friend. He's very
good friend, John Lennon. And if you think about it,
(05:22):
it was only twelve days earlier that John had been
murdered in New York City and Elton was on.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Stage here in Perth.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
We're talking about nineteen eighty, the end of nineteen eighty,
so it wasn't a dry eye in the house. The
encore had everything song for Guy, your song and then
a cranked up rock and roll energy, very energetic medley
of great balls of fire, jailhouse rock, and I saw
her standing there. So we celebrate the tour and we
wrap up the Tragic music Box from nineteen eighty. On
(05:49):
ninety six, a FM
Delving deep into the archives of Perth music history, crazies,
tragic music box. Today we're going back way back to
nineteen eighty. Okay, nineteen eighty and nineteen eighty. Didn't we
think we were so cool with a walkman on?
Speaker 2 (00:19):
We thought we were so futuristic, so cool, so cool,
so cool.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
They had that little thing around your neck and those
little headphones on. Some people were jogging a.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Rock still handbag.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Yeah that's right, jogging a roller skating with that thing
attached to your belt. Yeah, yeah, absolutely, with the tiny
shorts on, with the piping on the edges, or the memories.
Some people just reached, of course for the floor of
the old Ford swimming tablets. Remember the Ford swimming tabs,
to remember those. They were heavily promoted across it, particularly
in America, but Nozzy's got into them as well.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Beware of the side effects because there were so many
side effects of those bloody things.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Not good.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Because the diet pill craze was huge at the movies Jane,
Lily Tomlin and Dolly Parton were of course, such a
big hit movie, wasn't it that one? Probably Jane thoughts,
I'm probably doing pills especially Jane. She was saying she
was working out with the legwarmers.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Yeah, the Jane Fonder aerobics. I had the video.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Oh you had the video? Yes, yeah, awesome, that's thought.
Those lego womans look awesome. The English paparazzi Lisa in
nineteen eighty scored their first snap of Prince Charles's new girlfriend,
Lady Diana Spencer. Do you remember the shot? She had
a couple of kids with her, which of course weren't hers,
and she was wearing the.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Sea through striped shirt.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Yeah, they're just having to get the shot with the
sun behind her on TV. Dallas was absolutely huge. Used
to love the shot at the start where you saw
all those mirror of the windowed buildings in Dallas, Texas. Yeah,
so incredible huge. Wasn't it a massive show? And no
(01:55):
bigger than this stage in nineteen eighty when you know
Who shot Jr? Those big episodes and we're all wondering
what was going on. Eighty three million Americans, so nearly
half of the US population watched the Who Shot.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Jail end of seasonal cliffhangers.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
They had bilmed three different outcomes they had to try
to under wraps imagine how long you'd keep something like
that under wraps.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
For these days, it's impossible.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
It wouldn't even make it to the showing of the
episode that was the cliffhanger, because it was just before
the season was released.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
At the time, it was just over two hundred million Americans,
so nearly half the population wanted to see who put
the bullet into Larry Hagman's grinning evil guy in the
Giant Cowboy hat. Oh j a ewing at home here
in Perth in nineteen eighty least, the state manager of
any financier investment company could rake in an incredible salary
of eighteen to twenty thousand dollars plus a company falcon.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Oh we The falcon was if you if your dad
had a company car.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Yeah, company car, because your mum could have had a
company car too, but.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
It was more likely your dad.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
Yeah, it was pretty flu You might as well have
had a pull and a cornetto every night.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Stop it, I mean, not a cornetto what was that
last pressure.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Drumsticking something like that.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
We just had the cheap ice block ones I did you, Yeah,
a block of land and Kingsley put your back fourteen
thousand dollars in nineteen eighty and how to think about this,
in nineteen eighty the Mitchell Freeway only went up to
Hutton Street.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Yeah, how bizarre is that?
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Yeah, the carn Up extension wouldn't be finished for another
three years. And going the other way, of course, the
Kunana Freeway went all the way down to Canning Highway.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Oh, it was really worth a point for Wow, so
bizarre is it? It got to South Street by nineteen eighty four.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Yeah, that was the next to the next installment. And
also in nineteen eighty. Look, we didn't mind a novelty
song one.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Somewhere, did you? Sorry? Just stuck in your head? Why
enough for Joe Dalgy another novelty song?
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Can I tell you? You know? We talk about novelty
songs that went to number one in fifteen countries.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
Sour it did he?
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Yeah? It was number one for eight weeks from November
of nineteen eighty. That's no accounting for However, the UK
love a novelty song, and even though he was American
who moved to Melbourne in the late seven it went
to number one in the UK. It went to number
one in Germany's time.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
We were not going to play it.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
New Zealand, Ireland. So now we're not because we're going
to talk about some real music here. December twenty and
twenty one, Lease Elton John had an album called twenty
one at thirty three and then the tour made it
to Perth earlier, a Deel style album. Exactly funny you
say that. Look he made it to Perth for shows
at our entertainment center. We're talking about nineteen eighty. The
(04:26):
gigs wrapped up a run of sixty three shows over
three and a half months. He was a busy boy.
And Elton and his band obviously they're in red hot
form and of course you know what bands are like
when they get to the end of a tour.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
They're having such a good time. In the eighties, we
were allowed to have it good and they.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Know they're going to get time off straight after and
they're here in summer. So the gig started with the
epic Funeral for a Friend and Love Lies Bleeding from
the album Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, and then it went
straight into the contrasting style of Tiny Dancer Beautiful, then
a track from the Goodbye Yellow Brick Road album we
speak of the title track and then Rocketman and Philadelphia
Freedom or was a concert favorite. Very Sweet Little Jeanie
(05:00):
was the hit single from that twenty one at thirty
three album. And as you mentioned about Adele or Taylor Swift,
you know, using ages and all the rest of it.
And in referring to album titles, twenty one at thirty
three was his twenty first album in total at that
stage at the age of thirty three. For elt So
it was all for a reason. We were treated, of
course to an emotional tribute for his friend. He's very
good friend, John Lennon. And if you think about it,
(05:22):
it was only twelve days earlier that John had been
murdered in New York City and Elton was on.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Stage here in Perth.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
We're talking about nineteen eighty, the end of nineteen eighty,
so it wasn't a dry eye in the house. The
encore had everything song for Guy, your song and then
a cranked up rock and roll energy, very energetic medley
of great balls of fire, jailhouse rock, and I saw
her standing there. So we celebrate the tour and we
wrap up the Tragic music Box from nineteen eighty. On
(05:49):
ninety six, a FM
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