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the nineteen eighties and the nineteen eighties icons,

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those people, the music, movies, performers, fads and fashion that

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swept over the entire globe. But
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a man that dresses like Rambo every
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argues with himself. He's been seeing
many times in the nineteen eighties, going

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to Wendy's only to ask where the
where's the beef lady is here head back

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to the eighties. We call him
the wondrous Chang Chusky, How the hell

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are you doing? Welcome to Back
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Chang, and I'm in a location
on the verge of finding more proof of

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offspring from Sasquat. Enough of that, I also want to remind you guys

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is Sandy Cave from the show A
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to be interviewing a very special someone
from Berlin and more of the nineteen eighties

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when we return as we talk about
the legendary icons, whether it be in

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music, movies, fashion, fads
or more. Stick around because Chang is

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in their entirety. So Chang. Today

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we are continuing our talk in the
icons from the nineteen eighties, but we

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realize, look, not every icon
of the eighties was just a music performer.

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But today we want to return and
touch on the subject and we want

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to we have the return of the
Legends. Now in twenty twenty three,

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we have a few of the legends
of back then, those guys and gals

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that were literally icons of the era
performing new tours today. Chang Off the

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top of my head. I remember
in twenty nineteen, there is a critically

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acclaimed album from Madonna that released her
Madam X album and her Madame X tour,

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her world tour very successful. If
I might add as well, Madonna

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added her world tour in twenty nineteen. Duran Duran Least their Future passed in

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twenty twenty one, where they got
tons and tons of positive reviews, except

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from the Chang capturing the very essence
of their six I didn't even stay.

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I know, I know, but
you thought about it. Also, now

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there is talk of a second round, a continuation from the twenty sixteen reunion

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tour of Guns and Roses. I
don't know if it's true or not.

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If you guys know anything about this
rumor going on that there may be a

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reunion tour, go ahead and let
us know. Of course. In twenty

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seventeen, my favorite band in the
world. You two started a tour and

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they're continuing to fill stadiums. And
in twenty twenty three there's a few bands

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I did want to mention, one
of them being White Snake because they did

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finish up their tour. No more
Bubbye White Snake. The Cure is worldwide

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right now going on tour, and
Depeche Mode is filling stadiums, so Chang

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and I'm gonna mention one more band, and I know you have a lot

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to say about this band. But
finally, finally, I guess the farewell

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tour of Kiss. You know I
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Kiss. I'd say maybe the ninth
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they still when they took off their
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the farewell tour. Me and my
cousin Bobby, we went down and checked

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out that show that was supposed to
be the last Raw or Kiss, all

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the original members. But yet Jane
Simmons, the Donald Trump of heavy metal,

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who proclaimed he is the one that
labelize the horns up, where as

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to Ronnie James Dio did it.
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Gene Simmons says that he started the
horns and not not Dio. Yes,

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he said that, but he had
his thumbs out. So when you do

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that means Hawaiian aloha. Hello?
Wait isn't that sign language that means uh?

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Yeah? I think that means hello
lot yeah right, But Dio Dio

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did the horns up with a thumb
crossing over the middle finger, which is

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taken for a satanic gesture, but
it's not really isn't It's an old uh

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Catholic Yeah, yes, actually yeah, And I know because in my side

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of the family, my dad's side
of the family, they do. So

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I remember my grandparents when somebody looked
at him walking down the street in a

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wrong way or something, they would
actually do the horns at them. And

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I would ask my grandfather in Italian, Yeah, why are you doing the

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horns? He goes, because they
give you the evil eye, So we're

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countering that giving them these horns.
And I'm going, oh, okay,

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either that or or My grandfather was
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in the nineties they did a farewell
tour, right, yeah, they did

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a farewell tour in ninety five,
ninety no, ninety six, ninety seven.

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But then again I saw the Who
do that. I saw Guns and

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Roses do that. And you mentioned
Guns n' Roses coming out again. You

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mentioned the Cure Motallackuy with a new
album they have out right now. That's

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right on tour, so so on
the chart. Bon Jovie with a new

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guitar player is out there. But
bon Jovia is kind of like a country

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John Cougar Mellencamp, but he still
looks like Jamie Lee Curtis. Then,

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of course you have the Crew.
The Crew came out with the Vince mcmill

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and Mick Mars exiting the band for
whatever reasons. You know, people are

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gonna talk. Both sides are gonna
talk. We don't know the real story.

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I happen to think they jacked him
around, but that's what I think.

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Also, you mentioned Depeche Mode.
Did you know the Fix came out

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just to say goodbye in twenty twenty
two? That maybe went under the radar.

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Now here's the band for my children
and catching kiddies that have kids.

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New Kids on the Block hooked up
with InSync. Are you tripping on that?

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So NI Kids in the Block is
nineties, in Sync is eighties.

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Yeah, yes, So that was
a collaboration that interest hit off pretty good.

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You got to give it a those
guys. Now that I'm older,

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I actually get to appreciate many of
the bands and the groups and even the

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boy bands that I did not and
that I would just put them aside.

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But I do get to enjoy them. And it's funny because New Kids in

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the Block I do understand that they're
nineties, but they are currently on tour

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everywhere. And there you know,
all the bands that were icons, and

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this is why we're doing this show
on icons, regardless of you know how

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you may like them, may not
like them. But the majority of the

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bands that we had in such high
esteem are coming back and doing world tours,

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whether it be for fine goodbyes like
supposedly kisses and I would hope so,

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and others because they just want to
continue good written, yeah, others

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because they want to continue and they
still can, and others as a well,

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you know what, we don't have
much left, so we're going to

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continue. We have so many of
those icons that are returning legends in the

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year twenty twenty three. Oh yeah, more so. I couldn't be happier

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man. And let's not forget Brett
Michaels without Poison. Let's not forget about

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Bruce Springsteen without the Eastreet Band of
EA Street Band. Right, Yeah,

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there's so many acts that are coming
out. Santana he came out again,

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you know, but then again he
came back and he jammed with everybody under

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the sun, got his name known. It's incredible. They're talking about the

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journey is coming back now. I'm
not sure if Steve Perry's going to join

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the band. I believe he is, but I believe they've been making music

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and I think they did some gigs
with Greg Rawley, who is the original

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h starter of the band, with
Neil Sean once they exited. Santana's band.

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Music is always evolving. Kind of
is like that washing machine dryer effect.

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Brother, it tumbles within, it
tumbles within, the cycle never ends,

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you know what I mean, comes
out a little bit cleaner, a

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little bit different. Now. The
eighties is definitely bringing back a lot of

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the old stars, exact school,
the news stars, because the new stars

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they're lacking talent big time. B
Yeah. I mean, look, there's

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so much in the school of okay
musicality. The new generation has it all.

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They have the luxuries, they have, the better machinery, the better

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devices, the better equipment they have. They may even have faster skills.

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But what they are lacking is a
lot of the ingenuity, a lot of

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the creativity, a lot of the
maturity, because it takes a mature artist,

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someone who's been there, someone who's
struggled, not just someone who has

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been on a stage and presented themselves
before some judges to see if they've got

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with the chops, somebody who has
paid their dues time after time, who

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has struggled and has suffered and has
fought the good fight. So I am

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really, really happy that a lot
of those icons are returning, These legends

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are returning to give us, in
some cases maybe their last show. And

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that's great. But on that chain, I want to ask you, and

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I want to ask our eighties fans, do you agree or disagree that a

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lot of these bands should not be
doing any farewell tours anymore, should not

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be doing any touring period, that
they should just stay maybe writing books and

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doing some other things because they're either
too old or just can't sing like they

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used to. I just want to
stay with that memory as they once were.

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You know what, I think a
lot of people go see their favorite

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bands and artists out of nostalgia.
You know that music replicates to them a

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time in their lives where we were
youthful. You know, we were invincible,

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We were vulnerable, but we were
willing to be free and take chances

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and let those experiences speak for our
own vices and our own personality. Now

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here's where it gets crazy. So
I think that's why people go see these

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bands. That's why some of these
bands stick around, because nobody wants to

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come to terms with getting older.
Mortality sets in. Believe me, brother,

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that's a whole different show. I
think today's music lacks the emotional experience

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vulnerability. When you write a song
or a poem, it comes from your

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heart, your experience, your emotion, how you see it, how you

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ingest it. But it creates that
unity where other people that have had similar

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experiences captify to the song because it
explains their inner emotion. That's great music.

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I think today, with a lot
of TV shows, the music industry

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would rather go to what do you
look like? How hot are you?

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So that real creative genius, that
real connection of music has been somewhat lost,

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basically because I do blame MTV,
but I blame pop paparazzi, camera

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fake. That's what I blame.
You give into the idolism and not the

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content or the feeling of being an
artist connecting with people. You're not doing

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that for that reason, that's what
the business lacks. Well. From Chang's

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mouth to your ears, let's take
a little break, and on this break,

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we're gonna hear from the artists themselves
regarding MTV a little bit. When

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we come back, we're gonna be
talking about the rise of the action heroes

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of the eighties in our decade today. So don't go away. You know

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what I miss? Back to the
eighties? Radio wor would be right back

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minus ten nine, eight, seven, six five. Where are you been?

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Jomping? V has been heralded ex
fresh and innovative and criticized for being

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shallow. When MTV first hit,
this was the biggest talk in the universe.

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MTV drop a grenade into our world. Everybody was watching MTV. People

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had to own at the radio.
I want my V made international stars almost

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overnight. We had no idea what
was going to happen because of MTV gave

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a visual representation to the artist that
they did not have before. But you

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never looked at music the same way
again, retreats again, stip im Tip

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the Night, Missing Me Free highly
All, Running Free a little bit better

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than he used to be because I'm
alive Face Least get in my basic wheel,

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Neverland, lose going in for the
kill the Night, even see Me

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Free Me Young, Run Free a
little bit better than it used to be

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come be there, gotta play with
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wi be look at yours. I'm
gonna troll today will be my tom back

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to the eighties radio. That was
Motley Crue with Live Wire, one of

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the bands that just moves Chang's spirit
and soul to the very core, at

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least with that album anyway, because
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yeah, that album, Oh yeah, Oh you know what, man,

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after Shout at the Devil, I
think they weakened. And you know that

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that's for another show, my input. I don't want to piss anybody up.

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I just think that band changed a
bit after what Vince Neil did,

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and they capitalized on being immature.
That's all I'll say. That was a

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great album that I remember seeing these
cats at them at the US festival,

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you know, but the song was
like really bad at the US vetis right,

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they had couldn't a hard time and
you could, you know what I

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mean, I mean a lot everybody
there was aft up. Well you can

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you can blame technicians. Yeah,
you can blame that on all of Wosniac's

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team because they should have been better
prepared for that. But anyway, that's

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for a different show. Just a
reminder here if you're just joining. As

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we were talking about icons of the
nineteen eighties, some of the biggest names

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in the history of Hollywood coming out
in the eighties, and I'm talking about

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I mean action stars like silver Ester
Stallone and you can change Arnold Schwarzenegger my

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name. Fees that did well,
willis Good, the coast we get together,

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have a few lefts, but these
are people that made a mark and

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a big footprint left in Hollywood.
We had big names in action movies,

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and we had big action movies that
didn't only include a you know, Rambo

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and the Terminator. Well, you
remember it kicked off where we had mister

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t you know, Starting a Rocky
movie, had Dolph Lundgren. We had

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Jean Claude von dam, Steven Seagal, Chuck Norris was doing some movies you

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know in the early eighties. Yeah, we had Harrison Ford who played Danna

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Jones and some of the greatest movies
ever. Wait now, wait, wow,

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wow, greatest movies. No,
no, no, no, I

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said that starting some of the greatest
movies ever, not the greatest to some

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of the greatest movies ever. Okay, see see how much the hater.

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The hater doesn't even listen. I
didn't see filth and hate you. You

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know what you see one to spew
to the subconscious minds of the listeners.

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You want the listeners to print pretend, I said, sarcastically, Star Wars,

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because you're in putting that in hate, I'm not, I said.

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You know, Harrison Ford, his
portrayal of Indiana Jones and all the series

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come on, and then today these
stars are returning now, whether it's gonna

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be a good movie or not.
Hey, what are you gonna do?

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Harrison Ford? Not? He was
in nineteen twenty three, you know,

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one of the prelimbs to the great
show that's ending in the fifth season,

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Yellowstone. Yeah, so you got
to give him some problems. Yeah,

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but come on, don't I do? I always do. But some of

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those legends of the past are making
their way back. And one of those

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huge legends is being still all thought
after. Yeah, Sylvester Stallone. With

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so many movies and so many TV
shows nowadays, even the younger audience knows

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who Sylvester Stallone is now. But
let me mention this Hollywood screwed up so

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bad. It has screwed up so
bad with so many unsuccessful remakes of movies

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from the eighties, and one of
those that they really really really did bad

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in are the Ghostbuster franchise. I
don't think there should be allowed to make

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remakes reversions of classical movies in the
past. I think it destroys it.

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It takes away the individual dominance of
that movie. It cheapens it any movie.

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And I thought that was a ridiculous
portrayal of any kind of a movie.

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Ever, those ladies are all hysterical
in their own realm, but do

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not replicate a show that is next
thing. You know, they're gonna want

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to redo Caddyshack with a bunch of
tagiads well. Believe it or not,

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they do want to redo Caddyshack,
and they also want to redo a few

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other monkey Let me mention a few
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One is Caddyshack. Number two The
Goonies, This should be left and

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alone. Number three the Breakfast Club. Now, let me give you the

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reasons as to why they're going to
redo this. Are you ready for this?

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Because only this generation would think of
this because of diversity. They think

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that we need those films with a
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Those movies should be left alone.
They were classics that were great.

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Leave them alone. Not everything in
life is about diversity. And these writers

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in Hollywood. You either have writer's
block eternal writer's walk, you shouldn't be

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in this business, or you have
no talent, or you have completely no

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talent at all. You should not
be thinking about remakes. You should be

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using your talent, creativity, and
whatever it is you think that today is

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better than it was before, use
that to create something new and special and

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return Hollywood blockbusters to what they were
back then and even before. So that's

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that's my two cents. I agree
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My brother, I really do now
see that we're talking about actors.

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What about Tom Cruise. Mel Gibson
nol Gibson has a couple of flicks he

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did come out in. It was
Hacksaw House, Killer Asse Movie on the

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Netflix Killer Asse Movie. May also
did Daddy's Daddy's Home two. Yeah,

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hilarious, Mel Gibson. Did you
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So? The funny thing about Mel
Gibson on part two of one of the

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highest grossing films in the history of
movies, where the first one was The

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Passion of the Christ and he's also
making the second one. But yes,

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Mel Gibson incredible actor, especially with
his big films Lethal Weapon. We all

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remember and love those films. Second, I mean, come on, who

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else can portray these action films like
the one and only Tom Cruise? Give

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me a break. This guy is
a talent. Oh, in every way

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that I mean. He may be
a scientologist, but I won't hold that

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against him. Tom Cruise is the
freaking man. Now. I will give

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you Tom Cruise as a great action
actor. I will give you that.

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He's got guts and he's got balls, and he is a great character actor.

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I will give him that. Personally
he's a jerk, but other than

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that, he's a great character actor. You're gonna talk about great actors,

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action actors, Schwarzenegger, great action
actor, freakiness, kind of funny,

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shitty, asked governor, But what
are you gonna do? Well, he

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wasn't a bad governor to a lot
of people. Let's leave that for another

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Joe as well. There's two actors
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was action and comedy and romantic comedies, and another actor was doing romantic comedies,

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but it was also doing just comedy
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that I'm thinking, they are staples. They are icons of the nineteen eighties,

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and unfortunately, because of illness today
they're leaving all of us eighties fans

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with deep sorrow, with a deep
hole in our hearts. And I'm talking

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about Bruce Willis and we all remember
from the movie die Hard and also Michael

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J. Fox. Are you telling
me you built a time machine? How

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of it? Delareate? And today
they had to retire because of what they're

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going through in their own personal life. So our hats off to them,

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greatness icons of the nineteen eighties.
I mean, anybody that has had to

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do the family member in similar situations. It's got to know the grieve,

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the struggle, the sadness, the
wonder, the questioning, testing your faith

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on why your loved one is going
through that. What they brought to us

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and other fans is something that will
always put a smile on our face.

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To anybody out there that has a
family member going through that, our best

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to you, our best wishes,
and our hats off to you because it

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is a hard struggle. I've had
to go through Parkinson's with my grandparents,

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and presently, presently my mom is
starting to show some of the signs.

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So my hats off to everybody out
there. Let's go ahead and take a

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break and listen to a couple of
songs from two of the bands that are

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making their rounds now On Tour from
Depeche Mode and Ghosts Again m Wasted Feelings,

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broken meanings. Time is fleeting.
See what it brings hellos stood by

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thousands, thou lust and sleepless sluller
heads dreaming. But this starts, my

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friends. We are your space,
Sundays, shine, silver bls, weightless

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out, oh my blood, a
place to hide the tears that you cry.

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E everybody says good bye face this
sleeping love in the air. Whistun

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be ghost against heavens dreaming, But
the star fly brands we know will be

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ghost against faces. See loves the
when doors as misting the streets on.

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I'mond bloods that shill a so silken
movement. The girls one and relieve it

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broken hearts behind miss fire, Masterfire, Miss Fire, Miss fire Me.

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I need the fashion so twisted selection
that turn goes me give me a live

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and all that it says. When
not as your beauty, I see your

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face, I will survive missus by
missus by missus bye, mister by the

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time you a power to make a
moment come alive aside and shine upon you

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when I kiss you every line and
mister streets blue arm, that trill live

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sounds silking bomer a girls and when
to leave, Yeah, I will leave

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broke hid behind you, miss by
mister bye, miss fire you, mister

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bye. Y'all want to read a
power to make them a moment time mostars

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shine upon you. Will to kiss
you every night, mister bye, mister

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bye, mister Fie, mister bye, mister Fie, missu bye, missr

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Fie. Now back to good,
wholesome, politically correct entertainment. Oops,

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wrong station, No. Back to
the eighties with Tuscano and Chech by Tiscano

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and Chang That was ghosts again by
depeche Mode and mystified by in Excess.

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Tonight, we are going to be
talking about icons from music, from movies,

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TV, whatever was an icon in
the eighties. We're gonna crash band

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and Chang a bang it tonight,
Tscano, what a great song for you?

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To pick. I gotta hand it
to you for that song. I

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think that's food for thought for everybody
out there to acknowledge, you know that

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time does not stop for everybody because
tomorrow is not promised. Great song once

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again, their legends, their icons, and whether you like them or not,

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they're back today. They're filling stadiums
and these are bands that can still

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sing. They still have that essence
of what made them so popular and what

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made them who they were in our
hearts, so of our hats off to

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all of them, And believe it
or not, I'm about to say something

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Chang that you're not going to believe. I'm even tipping my hat on bands

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such as Rush, who can still
rock the socks out of any any band.

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Today we're talking about the icons from
the nineteen eighties, ladies and gentlemen.

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I want to briefly skim over a
subject. Chang that, believe it

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or not, became icons in our
life and what was that because we all

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partook in this, and I'm talking
about the fashion, the iconic fashion of

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the nineteen eighties that hit us in
one way or another, whether it be

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in lust for the guys. Because
you remember, remember the bikinis back then

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for women, that really high,
high cut bikinis that drove us nuts.

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The leg warmers. Fitness in the
nineteen eighties was so hot. You gotta

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admit, Oh, I thought so. I you talk about Madonna, you

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talk about expose. I mean,
look at artists like mc hammer that brought

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along his flashy patterns and baggy style
pants into the whole world of the teenagers

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and the older you know, and
then for the older generation. Back then,

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TV shows like Dynasty and Dallas,
they spread a trend of you know,

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those wide shoulder paths for the women
and for the men, the double

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breasted South. Do you remember all
that? Oh? Geez, Paula abdul

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Don Johnson one of the sex lords
back then. Who else did we have?

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Back then? Becca Arseniel Hall was
sexy, Eddie Murphy was considered sexy.

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David Bowie was sexy. That's right. Ralph Macchio and Michael J.

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Fox with their acid washed jeans,
they became a staple even in the wardrobes

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for both men and women. And
I mean it was edgy fashion for the

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time. I remember, remember when
women started coming out with the ripped pants

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in the back, their back pocket
was ripped and you can see like a

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quarter of the cheek. Remember how
sexy that was? Oh yeah, yeah,

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Well do you remember how sexy dittos
was, you know, to your

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average male teenage year when dittos were
getting sold like crazy. Explain to those

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who don't know what dittos are.
Explained to them what dittos are. Anybody

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out there that does not remember the
ditto? Oh man, you you young

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boys, do not know what your
mind will carry you away to without having

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the skin in your face. Dittos
was the greatest form shaping pant gene,

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whatever it was made out of,
to any woman's body. I mean,

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it was a picture frame for the
curve, for the bouti the contour.

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Dittos was also so smooth to fill
when you're in that neck of the woods

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where you're getting lucky and you're going
to first base but you're leading off.

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Oh yeah, dittos And a lot
of the dittos were from the seventies,

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right brother, Yes, they started
in the late seventies. I think disco

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is what brought that type of a
panto. Yes, yeah, you're no

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way the very sexy. Now,
I do want to remind you guys,

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that if you guys want to get
a good laugh, and you guys want

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to take your mind off of these
things, and you want to have theater

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of the mind, check out one
of our shows. Go back to our

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archives and check out The Mechanics.
These two gentlemen from back south somewhere,

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they take the time machine that we
that both Chang and I sometimes take on

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our own, the good old Fierro
time machine, and both of these gentlemen

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take the time machine back to the
eighties and they take an entire show describing

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what they saw, and dittos were
one of those things that they saw.

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So just encouraging you guys to go
ahead and check out the show called the

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Mechanics. I think one of the
things that we cannot close our eyes to

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that was iconic, and it started
in nineteen eighty one and the first song

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video that played on it was from
the Buggles video Killed the Radio Star was

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MTV. MTV, regardless of what
you feel, became iconic to us in

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the nineteen eighties because you know what, brother, regardless if they did kill

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the Radio Star, they also made
the Radio Star a lot of money because

405
00:42:50.840 --> 00:42:57.639
there were people like me who had
never seen these radio stars what they look

406
00:42:57.719 --> 00:43:01.360
like, and we got to see
them and it was just phenomenal. I

407
00:43:01.599 --> 00:43:07.679
remember the first time I saw the
video from Michael Jackson Thriller, which captured

408
00:43:07.760 --> 00:43:14.400
the imagination, which captured the heart
and minds of people around the world.

409
00:43:15.039 --> 00:43:19.960
It was a movie and nobody had
seen Michael Jackson other than in shows.

410
00:43:20.400 --> 00:43:24.079
And when we got to see this
the video Thriller, it changed the way

411
00:43:24.679 --> 00:43:30.760
we viewed artists. But then you
got videos such as the one from Genesis

412
00:43:30.880 --> 00:43:34.679
called The Land of Confusion, which
really made you feel like you were what

413
00:43:35.000 --> 00:43:38.559
you were on mushrooms. That's a
powerful song. It is a powerful song.

414
00:43:38.920 --> 00:43:45.719
So here we got the visuals to
what the lyrics were and it made

415
00:43:45.320 --> 00:43:51.039
an impact on our lives, me
specifically, and that's why I liked personally.

416
00:43:51.440 --> 00:43:55.199
I loved MTV in the early part
because look, brother, look at

417
00:43:55.280 --> 00:43:59.599
it. You can't look at it
so much as what they did to the

418
00:43:59.719 --> 00:44:04.239
end, which they did, unfortunately, but look at it as a youngster

419
00:44:04.840 --> 00:44:07.320
who had no idea what it was
doing behind the scenes, but as a

420
00:44:07.440 --> 00:44:14.239
youngster who who adored the singers,
the performers of the early eighties and now

421
00:44:14.320 --> 00:44:19.039
got to see them in action to
us that meant everything. I understand where

422
00:44:19.039 --> 00:44:22.559
you're coming from, and believe me, I'm not a true hater like you

423
00:44:22.639 --> 00:44:24.519
think. I remember when it came
out. I know that you know what

424
00:44:24.599 --> 00:44:29.840
I mean. That was in the
later eighties. I enjoyed watching it because

425
00:44:29.920 --> 00:44:34.159
I used to have a lot of
keg and cocaine parties and MTV was our

426
00:44:34.239 --> 00:44:37.880
form of entertainment. I used to
like to watch a lot of the newer

427
00:44:37.039 --> 00:44:43.960
videos. But I do believe and
stand strong that I think music he went

428
00:44:44.039 --> 00:44:49.119
into catering to the camera and the
look over the talent, the music,

429
00:44:49.239 --> 00:44:52.519
the creative genius, and the emotion
of music as a power. But that's

430
00:44:52.559 --> 00:44:57.119
another thing. But that's exactly what
happened in TV. I think the very

431
00:44:57.199 --> 00:45:00.760
first jocks were knowledgeable. They were
good eye candy, they were badass.

432
00:45:00.239 --> 00:45:05.559
They knew their stuff. They were
legit. JJ Jackson, Mark Goodman,

433
00:45:06.159 --> 00:45:09.280
Nita What Nina, Nina Blackwell,
Nina Black she knew what she was talking

434
00:45:09.320 --> 00:45:13.639
about. That they all knew what
they were talking about. You know,

435
00:45:13.719 --> 00:45:15.920
my named Martha Quinn. She was
quirky, but I mean she had it

436
00:45:16.000 --> 00:45:21.239
by the grip. You know,
even in the later eighties into the nineties,

437
00:45:21.360 --> 00:45:25.719
MTV still had that essence in their
hand in the music industry, and

438
00:45:25.800 --> 00:45:30.400
they were bringing it to be real. Unfortunately, a lot of mishaps that

439
00:45:30.519 --> 00:45:37.199
they had with drunken or overdosed guests
kind of brought him to a demise.

440
00:45:37.920 --> 00:45:43.519
Everybody wanted to go a little bit
more risque and realistic, so they stepped

441
00:45:43.519 --> 00:45:47.079
away from being music television. But
I'll give them their props. I enjoyed

442
00:45:47.119 --> 00:45:52.559
it. Heck, I got loaded
many of times and lucky with ladies at

443
00:45:52.559 --> 00:45:55.480
a lot of times when MTV was
the only light in the room. If

444
00:45:55.519 --> 00:46:00.400
you catch my drift coming up next, Sandy k from a Breath the Fresh

445
00:46:00.440 --> 00:46:05.599
Air interviewing a very special guest from
Berlin, Don't go away. Nobody has

446
00:46:05.679 --> 00:46:08.119
the movie I want. Hey,
if it's on video, Blockbuster probably hasn't.

447
00:46:08.119 --> 00:46:12.519
I mean we have over ten thousand
videos. Wow, I'll watch spas

448
00:46:12.679 --> 00:46:15.840
for having back tomorrow. I promise, relaxed and Blockbuster, you can keep

449
00:46:15.880 --> 00:46:19.199
your videos for three evenings, so
take home plenty and use our twenty four

450
00:46:19.199 --> 00:46:23.559
hour quick drop. Do you have
any children's videos? Sure, Blockbuster's America's

451
00:46:23.599 --> 00:46:27.920
Family Video Store. You know we
have more kids videos than any place else

452
00:46:28.000 --> 00:46:35.280
any more movies, more night,
more fun. What a difference, ladies

453
00:46:35.280 --> 00:46:39.519
and gentlemen. I'm shoutout Stevens and
you must listen to back to the eighties

454
00:46:39.679 --> 00:46:52.519
radio. It's the law today.
He's all about an American gal who really

455
00:46:52.760 --> 00:46:58.199
is a breath of fresh air.
She's singer, songwriter, or an actress.

456
00:46:58.679 --> 00:47:01.760
Terry Nunn, who is best known
for being one of the creators and

457
00:47:02.000 --> 00:47:08.000
the front person for the eighties band
Berlin. The band was heavily influenced by

458
00:47:08.079 --> 00:47:13.639
the punk rock that was all around
them in the late seventies, by bands

459
00:47:13.719 --> 00:47:20.519
like Ultravox and Craftwork. They're all
about that edgy, emotive take on synthpop,

460
00:47:21.079 --> 00:47:31.960
although the song that they're best known
for was anything but Hi, Lovely

461
00:47:32.079 --> 00:47:37.199
to meet you, Thank you so
much. What I find incredible how few

462
00:47:37.400 --> 00:47:42.320
the number of women are in music. How's that felt for you? Yeah?

463
00:47:42.440 --> 00:47:45.159
I understand it, you know,
because it's a lot of traveling and

464
00:47:45.599 --> 00:47:50.119
having this kind of lifestyle. A
lot of women don't want that. They

465
00:47:50.239 --> 00:47:52.760
want to be at home, they
want to have kids. It's not conducive

466
00:47:52.840 --> 00:48:00.960
about it. So the balancing act
of putting that together has been nutsheazy for

467
00:48:00.159 --> 00:48:05.679
me in this business, but I
love traveling and I love music, and

468
00:48:05.800 --> 00:48:07.719
it's still exciting to me. I
think whatever you do as a woman,

469
00:48:07.800 --> 00:48:12.440
it's constantly a juggling act. If
you want to have any sort of career,

470
00:48:12.760 --> 00:48:16.039
and you all chosen profession with that
does require rule let traveling makes it

471
00:48:16.119 --> 00:48:22.679
particularly difficult, doesn't it. Yeah. I think I honestly blessed COVID because

472
00:48:22.159 --> 00:48:27.639
I got back a relationship with my
daughter. Now she just turned eighteen,

473
00:48:28.239 --> 00:48:32.480
and I just didn't have a relationship
with her to speak of because I was

474
00:48:32.559 --> 00:48:37.159
never home and COVID forced me to
be home. I'm embarrassed to say,

475
00:48:37.480 --> 00:48:40.840
but she sat down one day and
said, I don't see a future for

476
00:48:40.920 --> 00:48:45.679
myself, mom, And I realized, oh shit, she's depressed and I

477
00:48:45.760 --> 00:48:50.880
didn't know it. So we worked
through that and she said she wanted help,

478
00:48:51.000 --> 00:48:55.119
and she got it, and she's
happier and she's smiling again. And

479
00:48:55.320 --> 00:49:00.599
honestly, would that have happened without
COVID, I hope, soul, But

480
00:49:00.920 --> 00:49:05.079
I can tell you it did happen
because of COVID, A reconnection with my

481
00:49:05.159 --> 00:49:14.360
family. The metro from Berlin,
the band couldn't get many radio stations to

482
00:49:14.480 --> 00:49:19.000
play that song. But they did
have better luck with MTV when it started

483
00:49:19.079 --> 00:49:22.840
up in nineteen eighty two, which
put the video in rotation thanks to the

484
00:49:22.920 --> 00:49:29.119
fact that lead singer Terry Nun gave
few as a very attractive female to watch.

485
00:49:29.719 --> 00:49:34.679
MTV was still in its infancy,
so record companies were stingy with budgets

486
00:49:34.719 --> 00:49:39.199
for the videos. Berlin shot the
clips for both the Metro and Sexeimer back

487
00:49:39.280 --> 00:49:45.320
to back over two days. Terry
wasn't very happy about shooting the subway scene

488
00:49:45.480 --> 00:49:50.480
over and over. She was exhausted, became frustrated and started to cry.

489
00:49:51.000 --> 00:49:54.960
Of course it was this footage they
used. Her anger and tears were exactly

490
00:49:55.079 --> 00:49:59.679
what the director had been looking for. You weren't with them from the very

491
00:49:59.719 --> 00:50:02.679
st but I loved the story around
how you did get to join the band.

492
00:50:02.800 --> 00:50:07.559
Can you share that with us?
I met John, I was eighteen.

493
00:50:07.079 --> 00:50:09.639
I wanted a band. I didn't
want to be a solo artist.

494
00:50:09.760 --> 00:50:15.119
And actually the singer who was in
Berlin when I joined, she wanted to

495
00:50:15.239 --> 00:50:19.880
leave and be a solo artist,
Tony Childs. She was up for a

496
00:50:19.960 --> 00:50:22.639
Grammy for one of her albums.
She did very well, but she started

497
00:50:22.639 --> 00:50:35.400
out in Berlin. John Crawford started
the band in nineteen seventy seven and I

498
00:50:36.400 --> 00:50:40.239
joined in in nineteen seventy nine.
I auditioned in those days there was no

499
00:50:40.360 --> 00:50:45.199
internet, so he had an ad
in a place. You had to go

500
00:50:45.519 --> 00:50:52.639
to this place and look through all
these notebooks of ads for singers and bass

501
00:50:52.800 --> 00:50:57.880
players and guitarists and bands looking for
this and singers looking for bands. And

502
00:50:58.639 --> 00:51:02.719
so I saw his ad and it
said we do music that's unique, and

503
00:51:02.920 --> 00:51:07.480
I love unique, so I had
to find out. So I contacted him

504
00:51:07.599 --> 00:51:14.159
and he sent me a tape and
it was synthesizer music, which I had

505
00:51:14.199 --> 00:51:17.239
never heard before, and it wasn't
happening in America yet. It was all

506
00:51:17.320 --> 00:51:21.800
overseas at that point, right,
So I was like, this is good,

507
00:51:21.880 --> 00:51:24.599
and the songs were good, you
know, I was really excited by

508
00:51:24.639 --> 00:51:28.840
it, and so I lied through
my teeth and said that I had all

509
00:51:28.880 --> 00:51:36.440
this experience that I didn't have,
and so they auditioned me and I got

510
00:51:36.639 --> 00:51:42.599
the job. So we just started
playing clubs for two three years and finally

511
00:51:43.800 --> 00:51:50.039
we got the attention of the record
label of Giffen. And I shouldn't say

512
00:51:50.079 --> 00:51:54.159
that we actually had something played on
the radio that got the attention of the

513
00:51:54.280 --> 00:52:00.599
record labels because we started selling records
that we were printing ourselves, and it

514
00:52:00.840 --> 00:52:05.079
really took off. We sold like
twenty thousand copies in a month, And

515
00:52:05.199 --> 00:52:08.480
so of course all the record labels
who said that this synthesize or music is

516
00:52:08.559 --> 00:52:12.719
never gonna go anywhere, all of
a sudden they're knocking on the door saying,

517
00:52:12.760 --> 00:52:17.159
hey, we're interested in you,
and so we got finally got a

518
00:52:17.280 --> 00:52:30.599
deal. Briget, I'm a bitch. Beginning of Berlin was John and me

519
00:52:30.239 --> 00:52:36.000
and David, and we were the
three who put it together and created the

520
00:52:36.079 --> 00:52:38.280
first album and our sound and you
know what we were going to be.

521
00:52:38.639 --> 00:52:44.119
And then they were gone, and
now they're back in the band against So

522
00:52:44.280 --> 00:52:47.519
it's it's full circle. So the
music really was unate, wasn't it?

523
00:52:47.599 --> 00:52:50.480
At the time? They will was
as you said, no, ow,

524
00:52:50.519 --> 00:52:54.760
the synthesizer sounds happening and not in
America. No. And what had you

525
00:52:54.920 --> 00:53:00.119
been doing before you joined them?
I was like dabbling in music, playing

526
00:53:00.199 --> 00:53:05.800
in some local bands, trying it
out in local places, but it was

527
00:53:06.760 --> 00:53:09.880
not serious. I wanted music so
much it scared me. I wanted to

528
00:53:09.960 --> 00:53:14.880
be a musician, and if I
didn't make it as a musician. If

529
00:53:14.920 --> 00:53:16.519
I couldn't make a living at it, then I wanted to be a DJ,

530
00:53:16.920 --> 00:53:20.760
and I was. I did get
that opportunity. For two years.

531
00:53:20.840 --> 00:53:23.480
I was a DJ at an LA
radio station. Here. I had my

532
00:53:23.559 --> 00:53:28.199
own show and I got to play
what I wanted, and I was doing

533
00:53:28.320 --> 00:53:32.039
television at the time. But then
when they were creating the series Dallas,

534
00:53:32.559 --> 00:53:37.639
the casting director knew me, and
I guess pitched me to the producers and

535
00:53:37.719 --> 00:53:40.840
they brought me in and I didn't
even after audition. They just said okay.

536
00:53:42.199 --> 00:53:45.639
They said, you know, it's
a seven year contract. And I

537
00:53:45.960 --> 00:53:50.960
was seventeen, and I thought,
okay, if this is a success,

538
00:53:51.079 --> 00:53:54.039
if it's a hit, then I'm
stuck. I'm doing this TV show for

539
00:53:54.159 --> 00:53:59.719
seven years, so this music thing
is not going to happen for me.

540
00:54:00.079 --> 00:54:01.840
And I went home to my mom
and I said, Mom, I know

541
00:54:02.000 --> 00:54:06.320
this is a great opportunity, but
I really want to try this music thing.

542
00:54:06.519 --> 00:54:07.800
And I said, Mom, you
know, what do you think should

543
00:54:07.960 --> 00:54:10.599
should I turn it down? Should
I try this music thing? And she

544
00:54:10.719 --> 00:54:14.480
said, you know, Terry,
if you don't try it, you'll regret

545
00:54:14.559 --> 00:54:17.480
it, so you should try it. So I told my agent, and

546
00:54:17.800 --> 00:54:21.719
he dropped me instantly. He said, you know, are you out of

547
00:54:21.800 --> 00:54:24.440
your f and mind? This is
a series, It's probably going to be

548
00:54:24.519 --> 00:54:29.360
a success. And how often does
this come along? They're handing this to

549
00:54:29.440 --> 00:54:31.760
you, you know, are you
an idiot? And he stopped representing me.

550
00:54:31.960 --> 00:54:37.199
So I had nothing. I had
nothing to lose, so I thought,

551
00:54:37.280 --> 00:54:39.159
okay, I'll give it a year
and see if I can get something

552
00:54:39.239 --> 00:54:43.960
going in the music world. And
it was a year later that I met

553
00:54:44.039 --> 00:54:47.039
John Terry. Also had a part
in a movie, terrible movie called Thank

554
00:54:47.079 --> 00:54:52.079
God It's Friday. But the interesting
thing about that one is that Thank God

555
00:54:52.079 --> 00:54:57.679
It's Friday was a movie, a
disco movie made by a company who was

556
00:54:57.760 --> 00:55:04.840
showcasing two of its big artists,
Donna Summer and the Commodores. Casablanca was

557
00:55:04.960 --> 00:55:07.760
making this movie and I was just
an actor in it. But I just

558
00:55:07.920 --> 00:55:15.639
so happened to meet on the set
Georgia Moroder, who wrote and produced Donna

559
00:55:15.679 --> 00:55:19.920
Summer. I was in heaven.
I mean, my God is Georgia Moroder.

560
00:55:19.960 --> 00:55:22.880
And he's looking at me like,
yeah, whatever, Yeah, it's

561
00:55:23.000 --> 00:55:28.559
nice to meet you. Buy And
who would have fuck it that? How

562
00:55:28.599 --> 00:55:32.719
many years later it was probably four
years later. Five years later, we

563
00:55:32.880 --> 00:55:37.760
have an oscar together and number one
hit around the world together. Who would

564
00:55:37.800 --> 00:55:44.039
a fucking Dreams really do come true, don't now? Especially in Los Angeles

565
00:55:44.559 --> 00:55:49.239
they do, and music dreams do
come true in Los Angeles because it's one

566
00:55:49.320 --> 00:55:53.920
of the top four capitals of music
in the world. Los Angeles, Nashville,

567
00:55:54.599 --> 00:56:00.719
London, and New York are the
top music capitals of the world.

568
00:56:00.599 --> 00:56:05.440
Melbourn guess that the distinction as the
live music capital of the world, is

569
00:56:05.480 --> 00:56:08.360
it? Yeah, well, we'll
be in Melbourne. We're playing in Melbourne

570
00:56:08.440 --> 00:56:14.760
where Berlin actually grew out of the
rock band called the Toys. What do

571
00:56:14.840 --> 00:56:17.800
you know about why it changed its
name to Berlin. This strange name to

572
00:56:17.920 --> 00:56:22.840
have chosen at the time, don't
you think. John Crawford is German and

573
00:56:22.039 --> 00:56:30.719
he also started the Toys and he
was fascinated with how Berlin was, especially

574
00:56:30.840 --> 00:56:37.440
pre war Germany, was this bastion
of culture and art and incredible progress,

575
00:56:37.400 --> 00:56:44.440
surrounded by communism, and for him
as a teenager, it felt like how

576
00:56:44.559 --> 00:56:47.840
he was with all of these restrictions
that he had from his parents and from

577
00:56:47.920 --> 00:56:51.920
school, and you know, everybody
wants you to be this normal person,

578
00:56:52.000 --> 00:56:54.199
and you want to create, and
you want to make music and art and

579
00:56:54.719 --> 00:56:59.320
do something great in the world.
So I think he found that to be

580
00:56:59.800 --> 00:57:05.920
an interesting idea as a name.
Today we're talking with Berlin's Terry Nunn,

581
00:57:06.360 --> 00:57:10.719
and she's been ages hopping from acting
to singing and back to acting again until

582
00:57:10.800 --> 00:57:16.400
the group managed to get their biggest
brike. It definitely took off. It

583
00:57:16.559 --> 00:57:22.199
took a while, but it did
take off. They just kept pushing on

584
00:57:22.320 --> 00:57:29.960
the song and they kept trying,
and then it just slowly caught fire and

585
00:57:30.760 --> 00:57:32.880
went in saying it is the gift
that keeps on giving in my life,

586
00:57:32.960 --> 00:57:38.039
because I can't believe that even now
people are still affected by that song.

587
00:57:38.719 --> 00:57:42.639
But there's a lot of dissension in
the group, wasn't there? Yeah,

588
00:57:43.000 --> 00:57:45.559
there was, But Take My Breath
Away wasn't the cause of it. It

589
00:57:45.880 --> 00:57:53.920
was another reason to have dissension.
Honestly. I mean at that point,

590
00:57:54.320 --> 00:58:01.079
Sanny, we had been playing and
touring and writing so long and we didn't

591
00:58:01.119 --> 00:58:05.840
know how to get off the hamster
wheel of that and get a life,

592
00:58:06.199 --> 00:58:09.159
and nobody was really in our corner
saying, yeah, you need a break.

593
00:58:10.119 --> 00:58:14.280
I honestly feel if we had done
that we would have stayed together,

594
00:58:14.920 --> 00:58:19.320
but because we didn't, we were
just going and going and going. We

595
00:58:19.719 --> 00:58:23.000
turned on each other. And then
Take My Breath Away came along, and

596
00:58:23.119 --> 00:58:30.920
it was a song outside of Berlin's
writing, and another reason for us to

597
00:58:30.400 --> 00:58:35.480
disagree. I thought it was great
to do a Georgia Moroder song. We

598
00:58:35.679 --> 00:58:40.400
wanted to work with him so much
that we begged him to just do anything.

599
00:58:40.719 --> 00:58:45.159
Really, we just thought what he
had done with Bowie, you know,

600
00:58:45.239 --> 00:58:52.280
putting out Fire with Gasoline and Donna
Summer and Blondie and cat People and

601
00:58:52.519 --> 00:58:58.159
Flash Dance, and I mean the
guy was just electronically doing everything we wanted

602
00:58:58.239 --> 00:59:01.280
to do, and it's all timing. While he was producing No More Words,

603
00:59:01.559 --> 00:59:07.920
he got Top Gun. He got
the job to do the soundtrack for

604
00:59:07.039 --> 00:59:12.199
that movie, which was coming out
the following year. So we were there.

605
00:59:12.880 --> 00:59:15.880
John didn't want to do the song. I would Georgia Murder could have

606
00:59:16.000 --> 00:59:20.639
farted and I would have sung it. I loved that guy so much,

607
00:59:21.239 --> 00:59:22.519
and so when he came in and
said he wrote a song and would you

608
00:59:22.599 --> 00:59:24.519
like to sing it? I didn't
even need to hear it. It was

609
00:59:24.559 --> 00:59:27.679
like, Yeah, give it to
me, I'll do it. I'll give

610
00:59:27.719 --> 00:59:30.559
you a I'll sing it to you
tomorrow. And John was like, no,

611
00:59:30.800 --> 00:59:31.679
that's not our music. We're not
doing that. We need to be

612
00:59:31.800 --> 00:59:35.159
Berlin. This is not Berlin,
this is Georgia Murder. I said,

613
00:59:35.320 --> 00:59:37.280
I don't care. I want to
do it. So and the labels like,

614
00:59:37.400 --> 00:59:38.800
do it, do it, do
it. You know, it's a

615
00:59:38.840 --> 00:59:44.800
big movie, and and so they're
all over it. So they shut John

616
00:59:44.840 --> 00:59:46.880
down, and we did it.
We had not had a hit at all

617
00:59:46.960 --> 00:59:52.239
at that point. We were under
round hit people, but nothing that the

618
00:59:52.400 --> 00:59:59.840
world knew or no chart positions whatsoever
at that point. So he tried out

619
00:59:59.880 --> 01:00:02.039
of bunch of other people for that, and because they were bigger and they

620
01:00:02.079 --> 01:00:06.400
had had hits, and that's what
Paramount wanted. They wanted a big singer

621
01:00:06.920 --> 01:00:10.480
to sing their big love song for
this movie. So they didn't like anybody.

622
01:00:10.480 --> 01:00:15.079
They didn't like any of the singers. So because we were there,

623
01:00:15.760 --> 01:00:20.840
I got the chance to audition and
do the job. The absolute peak of

624
01:00:21.000 --> 01:00:24.559
you succeists. When that song was
number one internationally, it was safe both

625
01:00:24.599 --> 01:00:29.760
the Golden Globe and the Academy Award
for Bist Regional Songyan ninety ninety six.

626
01:00:30.199 --> 01:00:32.800
It was both the blessing and the
curse of the band because it was our

627
01:00:32.800 --> 01:00:37.719
first number one, it was our
first international number one, and so we

628
01:00:37.880 --> 01:00:43.039
got to play everywhere for the first
time. You know, success heightens everything.

629
01:00:43.519 --> 01:00:47.800
Everything in a personality will get more
with success. So everything that was

630
01:00:47.960 --> 01:00:52.559
bad way worse because now we're working
even more than before, so we have

631
01:00:52.679 --> 01:00:57.559
even less of a life if we
had any before Now the labels like,

632
01:00:57.599 --> 01:01:00.480
oh, you're gonna play everywhere,
It was like, there's no time for

633
01:01:00.559 --> 01:01:05.400
anything, but this The money was
bigger, but so was the work.

634
01:01:05.679 --> 01:01:07.800
And we're tired, and we're just
and we don't know what to do about

635
01:01:07.840 --> 01:01:10.360
it, and we don't know how
to talk to each other, and that

636
01:01:10.559 --> 01:01:16.039
got worse. So by the end
of that tour, we weren't even speaking.

637
01:01:16.280 --> 01:01:21.639
John and I weren't even talking anymore. We just couldn't figure out anything

638
01:01:21.679 --> 01:01:24.639
that we agreed on. We should
have just taken a year off and come

639
01:01:24.719 --> 01:01:30.159
back to it. That was the
nails of the cob I just want to

640
01:01:30.280 --> 01:01:34.039
know finally, I mean, you
talk about chemistry between rods, How did

641
01:01:34.079 --> 01:01:37.039
it come about that you and the
other guys started riding new material again in

642
01:01:37.639 --> 01:01:43.079
twenty sixteen, I think it's just
because it's what we'd do. You know,

643
01:01:43.159 --> 01:01:46.039
when he was getting a divorce,
John was divorcing this woman after all

644
01:01:46.079 --> 01:01:50.920
these years. He came to me
because I'd been through one divorce and we

645
01:01:51.079 --> 01:01:55.280
helped each other. I helped him
through that and David Diamond was also going

646
01:01:55.360 --> 01:01:59.400
through a breakup, and so we
just kind of hugged each other through that.

647
01:02:00.000 --> 01:02:04.639
And it just that's developed, redeveloped. It's our language, you know,

648
01:02:05.400 --> 01:02:08.800
so talking about music, playing things. We like making music together.

649
01:02:09.239 --> 01:02:13.360
And it took a while. And
the lightest stuff, how does that compare

650
01:02:13.400 --> 01:02:15.960
to the earliest stuff. It still
sounds like Berlin, but it's using a

651
01:02:16.039 --> 01:02:21.159
lot of the toolbox, the toy
box that we have now, which we

652
01:02:21.239 --> 01:02:25.440
didn't have them. The electronics are
really fun to me, they're really inspiring.

653
01:02:25.519 --> 01:02:30.000
Team. We did an album that
also came out right when COVID hit,

654
01:02:30.440 --> 01:02:58.679
which was Berlin playing our hits with
an orchestra, Streams Attached, was

655
01:02:58.719 --> 01:03:00.679
released in twenty twenty. I have
to let you go and I want to

656
01:03:00.760 --> 01:03:05.480
let you go. Terrific chatting with
you. Thank you for take care of

657
01:03:05.559 --> 01:03:09.320
Sandy, Talk soon, Terry,
Bye bye. She's a pretty special lady,

658
01:03:09.480 --> 01:03:13.800
isn't she, And like so many
of us, she's had to undergo

659
01:03:13.920 --> 01:03:17.519
all the highs and lows that life
throws at you in order to finally strike

660
01:03:17.599 --> 01:03:22.920
a balance. Thanks so much for
keeping me company today. I hope you've

661
01:03:22.000 --> 01:03:35.840
enjoyed this episode. Welcome Eties fans. I have been expecting you. You

662
01:03:36.119 --> 01:03:43.840
no longer need to listen to any
other podcast. You wan't the Eighties,

663
01:03:44.039 --> 01:03:52.519
don't you? The longing for it
is swelling. You now feel the memories

664
01:03:52.639 --> 01:04:00.920
coming to you and listen to Back
to the Eighties. Give in to stuga.

665
01:04:02.599 --> 01:04:08.920
With each passing moment you make your
setup. Bore off the nighties?

666
01:04:09.000 --> 01:04:19.599
Fine, it is an avoidable home. It is your distant You don't know

667
01:04:20.000 --> 01:04:30.559
the power of Back to the Eighties. You like your childhood? Are now?

668
01:04:30.880 --> 01:04:47.559
Mane? All right? Can we
continue the show here on Back to

669
01:04:47.679 --> 01:04:54.719
the Eighties Radio? As we are
talking about lots of the iconic figures and

670
01:04:54.960 --> 01:04:58.719
things that we had back in the
in the nineteen eighties, let me ask

671
01:04:58.760 --> 01:05:01.199
you something, brother and everybody out
there listening, if you want to receive

672
01:05:01.320 --> 01:05:08.400
a special prize this week, as
mister Carr received this week a special CD

673
01:05:08.920 --> 01:05:13.159
for naming the album that we should
talk about in the eighties greatest albums.

674
01:05:13.960 --> 01:05:17.400
We want to give you a special
gift. So here is the trivia question

675
01:05:17.960 --> 01:05:27.880
for this evening, who played Marty
McFly in the Back to the Future Trilogy?

676
01:05:28.800 --> 01:05:32.840
Only the correct answer that reaches out
to us on our email. You

677
01:05:32.920 --> 01:05:36.760
can't reach out to us on Facebook
and Twitter. You got to reach out

678
01:05:36.800 --> 01:05:44.000
to us on our email. But
the first person or people that reach out

679
01:05:44.039 --> 01:05:48.800
to us on our email that our
email is back the number two the Eighties

680
01:05:49.039 --> 01:05:54.559
Radio at gmail dot com. So
if you answer the question who played Marty

681
01:05:54.639 --> 01:05:58.840
McFly in the Back to the Eighties
Future Trilogy? You will get a special

682
01:05:58.920 --> 01:06:02.440
prize us. You're add Back to
the Eighties Radio. You know, as

683
01:06:02.480 --> 01:06:06.519
we come to the end of our
show, do you have a special memory

684
01:06:06.559 --> 01:06:11.079
from the nineteen eighties something that you
say? You know what, I have

685
01:06:11.199 --> 01:06:14.199
a lot of memories of the eighties, but this is this is one of

686
01:06:14.239 --> 01:06:16.880
them that I love to replay in
my mind. Do you have something like

687
01:06:17.000 --> 01:06:19.039
that? And if you do,
and I think, what is that?

688
01:06:19.679 --> 01:06:24.440
You know? Want? Bro?
Yeah, there's one thing and that was

689
01:06:24.599 --> 01:06:30.800
the birth of my daughter in nineteen
eighty seven of January, Jasmine Chastity.

690
01:06:30.360 --> 01:06:35.000
I won't give you the last name. She's a chang. That is probably

691
01:06:36.159 --> 01:06:45.800
the greatest memory, greatest experience,
greatest feeling, the greatest jubulation that I've

692
01:06:45.239 --> 01:06:49.719
ever had in in that era of
the eighties, because I do have other

693
01:06:49.840 --> 01:06:54.559
children, but yeah, definitely,
in nineteen eighty seven, the birth of

694
01:06:54.679 --> 01:07:00.400
my child was the greatest memory I
have of the eighties. Every time I

695
01:07:00.480 --> 01:07:05.760
hear guns N' Roses a Sweet Child
of Mind, it reminds me of my

696
01:07:06.000 --> 01:07:11.599
child and that time. I'll tell
you, like Cats in the there's certain

697
01:07:11.679 --> 01:07:14.679
songs that a lot of us can't
sit through. I cannot sit through Cats

698
01:07:14.719 --> 01:07:19.320
in the Cradle since my dad passed. But Sweet Child of Mine, it's

699
01:07:19.320 --> 01:07:25.840
a rock and song, but it'll
get me choked up where I can't continue

700
01:07:26.039 --> 01:07:30.320
singing. It just reminds me of
that time. Crazy rock and roll.

701
01:07:30.400 --> 01:07:35.400
Bro. It's always an emotion.
It's always something that you can unify with

702
01:07:35.519 --> 01:07:41.159
somebody else with incredible power. It
is powerful and one of those memories that

703
01:07:41.239 --> 01:07:45.639
comes to my mind was I believe
it was October Thursday. In October nineteen

704
01:07:45.719 --> 01:07:50.719
eighty seven when the earthquake and wier
hit. I was going to high school

705
01:07:50.760 --> 01:07:54.960
with my best friend Mark, and
we were, oh yeah, we were

706
01:07:55.000 --> 01:08:00.679
already on campus, and we see
the windows start to shake and everybody starts

707
01:08:00.800 --> 01:08:04.719
running out into the field at Santa
Fe Springs High School. And we took

708
01:08:04.760 --> 01:08:11.000
the occasion because that's what we did
back then, and we ditched school because

709
01:08:11.199 --> 01:08:14.039
we were. First of all,
we were a little scared, no matter

710
01:08:14.079 --> 01:08:17.520
how tough we acted. But secondly, we went out with a bunch of

711
01:08:17.600 --> 01:08:21.000
our friends and we went to the
nearest park and we waited on the bench.

712
01:08:21.600 --> 01:08:27.960
In spite of tragic situations or tragic
circumstances. We took our bikes and

713
01:08:28.039 --> 01:08:33.039
we rode by the Wittier Mall and
a lot of the stores were just brought

714
01:08:33.119 --> 01:08:36.640
down and they were in rubble because
of the earthquake. But my best friend

715
01:08:36.680 --> 01:08:41.520
and myself we were there, remember
that. And you know what's funny,

716
01:08:41.960 --> 01:08:45.279
Chang, You and I were not
far away from each other back then in

717
01:08:45.479 --> 01:08:51.039
some way, in some way,
I think that our spirits knew that here

718
01:08:51.159 --> 01:08:56.239
back to the eighties. We just
want you to know that if you lived

719
01:08:56.279 --> 01:09:00.560
through the eighties, we have a
lot in common. A lot of bad

720
01:09:00.600 --> 01:09:03.560
things happened, but most of it
was good, and those good things will

721
01:09:03.680 --> 01:09:09.920
last forever so our behalf of duskanaw
and Chang. I want to wish you

722
01:09:10.039 --> 01:09:13.119
a great week. I want to
say thank you for joining us, and

723
01:09:13.239 --> 01:09:15.199
if you have anything to let us
now go ahead and write to us and

724
01:09:15.359 --> 01:09:20.439
drop us a line. And so
to that you say, till next week,

725
01:09:21.119 --> 01:09:27.840
Chang here before we we release you
to another chang tastic we can remember

726
01:09:28.039 --> 01:09:31.560
too. Always remember you count no
matter who you are, what you believe

727
01:09:31.600 --> 01:09:33.920
in, where you come from,
what you love, what you don't like,

728
01:09:34.520 --> 01:09:40.319
You matter. Always put a smile
on that face, because tomorrow is

729
01:09:40.439 --> 01:09:44.840
not promised. If you can stand
for something, stand for yourself and stand

730
01:09:45.159 --> 01:09:48.359
for something greater than you till we
meet again. I bid you all a

731
01:09:49.359 --> 01:10:00.159
adios arista manyana asta la vista as
stella weego sayonada aribarerce And to all all

732
01:10:00.439 --> 01:10:05.000
the cats and kitties and so cow
later brows and does, and to all

733
01:10:05.079 --> 01:10:12.399
the homies in everybodio, in or
out of an institution. The struggle is

734
01:10:12.560 --> 01:11:09.279
real or only a smile. We
refinds me Ji memonies, they was spread

735
01:11:09.399 --> 01:11:20.520
as bride. Now time when I
see your face, when that's your place

736
01:11:20.720 --> 01:12:01.239
and I stand, I probably rad
down cry love. She got eyes of

737
01:12:01.439 --> 01:12:10.399
the blue sky, he bath by
the rain. I need to look into

738
01:12:10.680 --> 01:12:27.640
those eyes and see down saying safe
place where time a brain and brain tried

739
01:12:28.039 --> 01:13:45.399
to pass by eyes chime mynd who
loved? Who? Slow my mind?

740
01:14:53.880 --> 01:15:01.119
Where do we go? Where we
we go? Where do we go?

741
01:15:02.199 --> 01:15:11.199
Where do we go? Now?
Why do we go? How do we

742
01:15:11.439 --> 01:16:04.680
go? Nowhere do we go?
Nowhere? Take me back to the cold,

743
01:16:05.079 --> 01:16:14.880
dare take me back and I want
to go three? Take me back

744
01:16:15.039 --> 01:16:24.479
till nine. My hats alway time
whoa he afore I control b