Clairsy's Tragic Music Box -1981: Imagine Sounded Funny In Scottish.

Clairsy opened his Tragic Music Box and took us back to the year Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer got married, 1981. It was also a year where you could go and see The Frames and Dave Warner at the pub and The Police and Johnny Cash at the old Entertainment Centre. Oh...and wait until you hear how much a litre of petrol would have cost you back then. Shocking!!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Delving deep into the archives of Perth music.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
History Clezi's Tragic Music Box. All right, we are going
back in time through the years.

Speaker 1 (00:13):
What do we got after our groovy music fades a little?
We're going back least today to nineteen eighty one. We're
going to start with the al right, our share, We're
going to start with the Perth music live music scene.
And one Lisa Show couldn't go. Lisa Maccine couldn't go.
She was just a baby. However, at the Shen's Sheddon Park,

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the shed they could go to the Sheds Sheddon Park Hotel.
You catch Seal on the Beam or the Mannequin's Live.
The Teddy Bears were playing the best of fifties rock
and roll at.

Speaker 2 (00:43):
The Charles Yes, one of the few venues still going.

Speaker 1 (00:47):
And I do remember from looking at the paper, you know,
it might have been the Daily News or something, and
you'd see the band things. The Teddy Bears had a
really cool sort of little cartoon of some fifties rocker.

Speaker 2 (00:56):
As they're in their ads, right, I remember around looking around.

Speaker 1 (01:01):
Yea Flashes was the name of the venue at the
White Sands in Scarborough. That was the band room or
the club. They had blues with Matt Taylor and Phil Manning,
two great blues guitarists. I've both been members of Chane
great Ossie blues band. The Frames were packing them in
at the Osborn Park Hotel, the Aussie Park and the
legendary Dave Warner. Just the Suburban Boy was playing for

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Sunday session, she said. Used to go off Turing acts
to play. The Entertainment Center in eighty one included the
one and only Stevie Wonder, the Police and Dire Straits
were pretty much fairly new bands still, he'd been round
through four years. Country superstar Willie Nelson was here and
speaking of country superstars, the Man in Black Johnny Cash
was in town.

Speaker 2 (01:41):
How good's that?

Speaker 1 (01:42):
And oh, by the way, in February of eighty one ACDC,
speaking of black, we're back in black. In politics in
nineteen eighty one, our Premier, Sir Charles Court, who always
said West of Australia great orator, he was concerned our
members of Parliament would struggle to get by on their
average wage of twenty eight thousand dollars a year, which
wasn't bad back then if you think about it. In
if you bought a house and three bedroom house in Applecross.

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There was worth seventy six grand, leaning fifty eight thousand
and Warrick forty six thousand, nineteen eighty one prices, speaking
of which a leader of petrol back then was thirty
seven cents.

Speaker 2 (02:13):
Sound funny time you.

Speaker 1 (02:14):
Had to go the the thing.

Speaker 2 (02:16):
Yeah, yeah, it was rosters. Yeah that's right.

Speaker 1 (02:19):
Yeah. A loaf of bread was seventy cents, and your
milkow would leave a liter of milk in your plastic
bottle holder near the front door if you left out
seventy four cents in change. We did have two cent
pieces to help it out, yet pinched. Yeah no, I
was going to say, imagine leaving cash out now the
porch pirates of.

Speaker 2 (02:35):
Seventy four cents would be gone, Toby. You could close
your front door properly.

Speaker 1 (02:39):
It all adds up if they do the whole street.
But the movie Steven Spielberg teamed up with Harrison Ford
and Raiders of the Lost Arc John Belushi and Dan
Akroyd paid tribute to the legends of Soul and the
Blues Brothers. Their co stars included Aretha Franklin, James Brown,
and Ray Charles took about top shelf and Leslie Nielson,
we know was hilarious in Flying High, giving you some
of the most repeated lines in common history.

Speaker 2 (03:00):
Can plan and landed. Surely you can't be serious. I
am serious, and don't call me surely.

Speaker 1 (03:08):
It does not matter how many times I've seen that movie.
Still myself that's the most that's the most obvious one.

Speaker 2 (03:17):
But there are so many. Can we be here? We
can play the whole movie this morning and give I
can make a broach, can be it's a hospital. What
is that? It's a big building with patients.

Speaker 1 (03:27):
It's not important right now.

Speaker 2 (03:29):
Remember straight, we're all counting on you flying over the
woman what's her name? When she's talking? Jib that's right
talking Kenny. I love that anyway. See, we could be here.

Speaker 1 (03:41):
I was Flying High nineteen eighty one. It came out
very late in eighty in the States, but eighty one
was the year it's had a big impact.

Speaker 2 (03:47):
They called it there, they did.

Speaker 1 (03:48):
I was speaking of entertainment. Entertainer Max Kay and his
Civic Theater restaurant open in beaufortt Street on the side
of a former meat works in eighty one, and it's
estimated more than one point five million people passed through
its doors to be fed and entertained before Max closed
it down in the year two thousand. I remember going
there for a parent's work Christmas party. Oh yes, yeah, yeah,
I went sorry show there Max would He wrapped up

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the night by doing John Lennon's imagine, which was sound
of Funny in Scottish.

Speaker 2 (04:13):
He was set an entertainer funny man.

Speaker 1 (04:15):
Nineteen eighty one fashion included Safari suits, yes, hair and pants, knickerbockers,
and some people even wore glitter tights, which is weird
but not all to be worn at once. Only Won
loved a bit of glitter. I remember having a ruffel
shirt shirt yeah, oh yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 (04:32):
A lot of material.

Speaker 1 (04:33):
Eighty one I was twenty sixteen, so I got my
first jack colored. It was a black jacket with colored specks.

Speaker 2 (04:39):
On it from.

Speaker 1 (04:42):
At the kind of City. Spent a fortune in my
first page. And we'll wrap today's nineteen eighty one time
trip with one of the biggest new stars in British rock,
actually an American named Chrissy Hine with her band The Pretenders,
from their second album Pretenders Too. It had been previously released,
especially in States, on an EP but it came out
on Pretenders Too, which is a great follow up to
the first album from the Tragic Music Box from nineteen

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eighty one on ninety six FM.