June 6, 2025

"Gone But Not Forgotten: The Icons We Lost"

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"Gone But Not Forgotten: The Icons We Lost"

This week, we turn down the lights and turn up the memories. Back to the 80s Radio pays tribute to the legends who defined our youth but left us too soon — the musicians, actors, entertainers, and cultural icons who gave us unforgettable moments, then faded into eternity.

From the electrifying riffs of Randy Rhoads to the soulful echoes of Marvin Gaye… from the TV stars we grew up with to the voices that shaped pop radio — we’ll remember them, celebrate them, and let their legacy play on.Tune in and relive the joy, the tears, and the timeless sounds of those who made the 80s unforgettable. Because though they’re gone… the frequency of their impact still lives on.

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Ladies and Gentlemen, headband warriors and cassette deck rockers, Welcome

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to the one and only back to the eighties radio,

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where parachute pants are what fills Chain's closet, a spray

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is forever, and the spirit of a whole generation echoes

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through every beat, rift and synth line. Today, Ladies and gentlemen,

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we are honoring the icons of the eighties who left us,

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but whose spirit still dances through every power chord and punchline.

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But we cannot do the show alone. As always, there

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is a man in studio who knows and who has

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tried to ban Eyeliner and depeche Mode from the airwaves,

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yet mysteriously knows every lyric to enjoy the silence. He

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says that the cure makes him nauseous, but rumor has

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it that back in the eighties he's slow danced to

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just like Heaven in his garage. He's got Slayer patches

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on his jacket and the Smith CD hidden in the

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glove box.

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Holy.

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He is Metal, he is Mayhem, and he is mysteriously moody.

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On Morrissey mondays, He, Ladies and Gentlemen, is the ever

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wonders Chang.

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How do you like that intro?

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Now that intro goes without even me saying that is

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the biggest croc of bullshit that I've ever heard said

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about me.

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Besides oh my gosh, there it is, holy, there it is.

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You know it's true.

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Every single word that I just pronounced is absolutely true.

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No.

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First of all, the Smiths, I thought that was a

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white family that lived on my neighborhood in south side Montabello.

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I've never heard of.

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No.

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No, Ladies and gentlemen, see, this is where the hater.

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This is where I am going to expose the hater

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because behind the chain is a poster underneath the MIBA

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music and he's got some candles around it with the

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picture of Morrissey. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, he honors new

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wave and alternative music from the eighties. That's right, Holy Mac.

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First of all, there is no fire in the dojo

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except yeah, well, ladies and gentlemen. I beg to differ

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because I'm actually looking at him. But what are we saying.

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We are saying thank you for joining us here. Back

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to the eighties radio. We've got a fun filed show.

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I can't say. Oh, by the way, cheers, I like chains,

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drinking PEPSI thank you for boycotting coke as I am

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too thank you. I can't tell you that. If you

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do have a theme for a topic, go ahead and

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send us an email at back the Number two the

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Eighties Radio at gmail dot com. You can visit our

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web page at FM eighties dot com. So today is

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going to be a fun filled show despite the I guess,

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the sadness or the little bit weird vibe of the

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topic that we have today, because we are going to

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be talking about people that we lost from the nineteen eighties,

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people that we both admired, some that maybe we didn't,

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whether they were musicians, they were singers, maybe they were

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political figures, or maybe they were just friends. Whoever, it'd

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be ladies and gentlemen. We're going to be talking about

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that coming up next. And we've got some great music,

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so stick around. And also a quick reminder if you

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happen to notice that here we don't present the music

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on our podcast platforms, it's because of legal ramifications. If

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you want to listen to the Fool music, you have

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to go to Live threesixtyfive dot com, download the app

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and look for Back to the Eighties Radio. So you

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can hear it every single Friday.

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I love it.

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So let's take our lovely listeners out with a song

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for those who will listen to us. Back to the eighties,

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Really Wet Live three sixty five something from Queen's Reich

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The Silent Lucidity. You're listening to Tuscanow and Chang. Get ready,

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get set, Get a box of Kleenex. Welcome back to

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Back to the eighties radio with Tuscano and Chang. That

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was Queens like Silent Lucidity mentioning a little bit of mortality,

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which tonight's topic is a bit about mortality. Anybody out

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there that has lost anyone dear to them from the eighties,

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our hearts go out to you. I too, have recently,

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in the last three months, lost some great friends. You

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don't have to be blood related to be family, but

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individuals that I lost that I shared a great, great,

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great amount of time in the eighties. I'm going to

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mention her name is real Quick Captain Andy Rezi grew

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up with him south Side, Manta Beell. My heart goes

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out to the Rasas and my good buddy, my homie,

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mister bon Jovi, Tony Choppa and everybody that hung out

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in the Metal Crew from eighty seven to about ninety nine.

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My heart goes out to you all, Tony. If you're

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going right now and you haven't left, because you probably didn't.

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You were always late. That's why we always got the

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parties late, and how to have parties at your pad

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on your way to heaven. Brother, Remember just we all

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love you and we'll see you on the other side.

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Anybody out there that has lost, anybody, go ahead and

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hit us on our social media pages. Open up your heart,

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open up the door. Let's be there for each other.

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Go ahead and put a name of somebody who may

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have lost. Go ahead and put a name of an

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artist and entertainer or some other type of mentor from

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the eighties that you lost. Tonight we are talking about that,

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and I'm going to lead it off with two individuals

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that meant very much to me. On a list of twenty,

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I'll start it off with the late great Freddie Mercury,

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who passed up age in nineteen eighty seven. Also, I

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want to talk about Stevie ray Laugh. Individuals that magnituded

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the music industry beyond and above innovators all the way,

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original icons, all the way, and sadly didn't it not

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live past the eighties to carry on their mark of

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brilliance in the music industry. Tusctto when I mentioned those

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two names, how do you feel? And what is your

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experience or the music that you benefited from from either artist?

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How's that?

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You know what?

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First of all, let me say this that as I'm

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getting older now, you know, you and I we were

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from the decade that had friends, I mean friends. We

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enjoyed our friends right face to face. We chatted, we talked,

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we got mad, we got happy. Everything was just face

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to face and we got to enjoy a certain something

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about our friendship and about those relationships. And it's sad

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to know that now as we're getting older, they're starting

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to wither.

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Man.

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And it's just a sad thing because when we were younger,

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we didn't think. We didn't think these days and these

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times were going to be so quickly upon us. But anyway,

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you brought up Stevie Ray Vaughan, and let me start

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with him and Freddie Mercury, as you just mentioned, I mean,

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look SRV's who hasn't heard of this man the guitar.

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He didn't just make the guitar sing. He made it weep,

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It had soul. This is a man who took blues

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and lit it on fire. Every note was a testimony

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of raw, electric truth. And when he played, it seemed

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like time stood still. Everybody's job would just drop. This

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is a man who played like no other. From the

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bottom of his soul that would be transmitted to his

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fingers and then to his guitar. It was absolutely incredible.

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And what can they say about Freddy Mercury. I've mentioned

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to the audience many times, although my favorite band is

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you Too, I can recognize the greatest band, in my opinion,

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that's ever lived. Some may say it's Led Zeppelin, some

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may say it's the Stones and the Beatles. My opinion,

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the greatest band ever is Queen with frontman Freddie Mercury.

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His voice soared above stadiums, shattered every mold. I mean,

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the guy was a showman. He was an icon. And

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if you remember Freddy Mercury, he didn't just perform, He

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commanded the moment. I'm thinking of that nineteen eighty five

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live ed, live aid performance. Literally, the man's voice touched

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the heavens and he transmitted that to the people so

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Stevie showed us how to feel, Freddy showed us how

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to live. Brother And although they're gone, man, their music,

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their soul, that vibe that they brought is still it's

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still echoing, still alive, still the eighties. I mean, it's

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here with us. I totally agree with you. I'm gonna

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throw one more at you. Well, actually we're gonna talk

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a lot. I got a lot to throw you.

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David Bowie, What is your favorite song of David Bowie?

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Y'all your listeners out there, why don't you go ahead

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and tap on when you can and we'll get your

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answer and we'll read it on next week's show. What

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was your favorite song from David Bowie? Of course, who

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we're speaking about now SRV see Ray or Freddie Mercury

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hit us on our social media and let us know

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who touched your life now, Tuscano, when I mentioned David Bowie,

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what is David Bowie.

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Do to you?

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And what do you think of Bowie? And what was

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your favorite Bowie's song? I know that's a tough one.

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It is, man, it is because this is a guy

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that made a huge impact on every body on music,

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from the way he dressed to the way he sang,

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to the way he looked, from the pop songs like

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you know, the pop radio songs from nineteen eighty three,

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like Let's Dance to China Girl, to Modern Love, to

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Blue Gene, and to the songs from before, way before.

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Remember Space Audity from nineteen sixty nine, and it recharted

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in the UK nineteen eighty three. So it was released

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and reappreciated in the nineteen eighties, and we felt like

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it was a release of the nineteen eighties, but in

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fact it was from nineteen sixty nine Space Oddity. And

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then this is a guy who had a song called

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Ashes to Ashes in nineteen eighty It was a spiritual

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sequel to Space Audity, Dark Surreal, I mean, what can

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we say? And when he did in eighty one with

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Freddie Mercury under Pressure, that was a legendary track, I mean, perfect, perfect.

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Here's another artist, Michael Hutchins Ah, Yes, in excess.

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Yes, it say, another individual that lost his life way

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too early on circumstances that are always not of the norm.

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But if you're a crazy rock and roll and you

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like to get down and get freaky, then you know

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it's up. So another great individual that we lost, that

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didn't get to carry his brilliance on beyond the eighties?

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Gone too soon? What was your favorite song from in Excess?

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Probably Mystify and don't change a thing. I enjoy a

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lot of their catalog, you know, And you want to

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pay me up to be the hater.

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That only metal.

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I only go out there, wear leather and knock the

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crap out of people, or listen to Judas Free said,

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disrespect the lot.

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I am anarchy. That's what your So that's not true.

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So that's not true. Then no, wait a minute, I

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didn't say that was true.

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That Wait a minute, you wait a minute, that's what

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I thought.

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What about what about songs?

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Like?

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Quickly you move on from interrogating Holy It's it's Stick

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Cheney and Donald Trump interrogating me.

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Everybody. Everybody knows everybody, actually everybody knows you.

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You know, you know. Uh, let's hear what you got.

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How about Burt Reynolds. Burt Reynolds. What about Burt Reynolds.

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He was an iconder in the eighties. He passed away, Yeah,

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smoking the bandit. What can we say?

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Man?

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This is this is a guy who with this awesome

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mustache and relationship with Oh my gosh, what was her name? Yes,

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with Sally Field and his beautiful, beautiful trans am. I mean,

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who can forget? And then, you know, it's funny because

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we were watching that movie recently and my son's actually

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love Smoking the Bandit.

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And you know, if.

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You watch the very first one where they pay the

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Bandit to go and get beer for this big event

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and they're being chased by Smokey, you know, the cop,

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and so it's a hilarious movie. It's a very funny movie,

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but it's such such an iconic staple of the nineteen eighties.

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You know.

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On that note, we've got a lot more to talk

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about when we come back. We're gonna take a short break.

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When we come back, We're going to be talking about wrestlers,

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political figures, and a lot more so Stick around gears

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from nineteen eighty six, Who Wants to Live Forever?

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From Queen.

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Like a Creature of the Night, Back to the Eighties,

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Welcome Back to Back to the Eighties Radio with Tuscano

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and Chang.

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That was the late great Freddie Mercury with Who Wants

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to Live Forever? Followed up by a short rendition of

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the late great Randy Rhoades of Quiet Riot and Ozzie Greatness.

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With d talking about great guitar players that we lost

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from the eighties, we cannot forget about the ever soul, flamboyant,

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great wizard Edward Van Halen, who is possibly a rock

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guitar god in his own right, a very sad passing

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with cancer, a provocative guitar player, and I think a

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maestro and a master of his instruments. Not a big

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fan of Van Hagar, but I'll take van Halen tracks

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away from anything with Van Haygard's singing, and I'll listen

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to him solo.

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Here's here's what surprises me about Randy Rhodes, because the

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guy was a prodigy, right and he turned metal hero,

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he had Ozzie at his side, and then he redefines

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metal in just a few short years. And then he's

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taken in a plane crash in nineteen eighty two at

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just twenty five years old. And that's wild, I mean wild,

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because the guy was brilliant. He was edgy, I mean,

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and today he's still screaming through the speakers. And what

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can we say about Eddie from Eruption to Jump, he

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reinvented what we didn't know was possible on the guitar.

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He was the guy was untouched, untouchable, and both of

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these rock legends were like two flames that are still

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burning through every single amp, every solo, every kid who

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ever picks up a guitar and says, I want to

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do that. What about the world.

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Of wrestling and it's flamboyancy which is now carried on

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to a multi billion dollar corporation. That is I've watched

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wrestling with my nephew and I can't. I gotta tell you,

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I cheer it on. They are posing a positive way

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to be for the kids in influence. They use both

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men and women flamboyant colors, and I think that's good

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for the boys and girls to have some type of

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visual super hero like positive connection to where it makes

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kids all colors and races think that they can take

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on anything.

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All right, Well, first, let me preferce this by saying

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that March thirty first, nineteen eighty five, at Madison Square

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Garden in New York City, it was the very first

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wrestle Mania and I got to enjoy it live, not

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in New York because we were here, but I convinced

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my dad to take me to the Long Beach Sports

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Arena where they were going to be showing the live

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event on the big screen. So this stadium, you know,

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the arena was packed and we got to see the

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live event on you know, the big monitors in the

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middle of the stadium, which was an unforgettable event because

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I was I was only thirteen years old, but I

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was so into wrestling. And let me mention to you

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a couple of wrestlers that I really enjoyed who are

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sadly no longer with us. My favorite of all was

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Rowdy Roddy Piper, who I mean, the hot rod, fast talking,

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skirt wearing rebel, and I mean the guy was very,

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very famous when he cracked a coconut on the head

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of Jimmy Snook. You'll remember that, who also also passed

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away Macho Man Randy Savage, who died in twenty eleven.

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Let me point to the president, the macho Man Randy

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Savins is not happy with your decision. Yeah, I'm the

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Cream and the World Wrestling Federation, but there is no

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doubt about it.

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Yeah, you mean, gene Oakerland. You know that I'm the

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cream with the.

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Crop, Andre the Giant, the Junkyard Dog. Listen to these names,

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Big John stud These are all people that we lost

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from the ww F. The British Bulldog, Yeah, the Hart Brothers,

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Mister Perfect Remember Macho Man's assistant, the beautiful, the graceful,

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the heart of Macho Man's storyline. Miss Elizabeth also died,

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you know, mean gene Oakerland, the voice of the wrestling interviews,

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the Ugandan Giant, all these King Kong Bundy, They're all gone,

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and it's just incredible the impact that they caused in

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young kids' lives. Young kid like me at the age

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of thirteen, who thought that everything that he was watching

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was one hundred percent real and the injuries were probably real,

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but I just didn't know the scope. These are all

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wrestlers that put a little special something in the life

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of everybody, even if they were the good guys of.

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The bad guys.

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You could even mention a few boxers in there that

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started in the seventies and ended in the eighties. And

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I'll start off with, of course the greatest Muhammad Alid,

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George Foreman, Ken Norton. We've lost some great individuals in

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and out of the ring, in and out of the entertainment.

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A realm.

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We talked about Burt Reynolds. Now how about The Golden Girls.

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All three actresses from The Golden Girls, a show that

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had your subconscience mind reeling with the jokes and humor

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that they had, and in that show, all of them

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prospered from the seventies and the eighties all gone. Now

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of course we're talking about the show Mash. A couple

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of individuals from that show have passed on. I know

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you hate that show with a passion.

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With a passion, I can't tell you, but you know

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they're actors that I really enjoyed and I and I

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think that they you know, they went on to make

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some some movies and they were good at them. But yeah,

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the show, I couldn't care less.

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Let me mention to you a.

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Couple of actors from TV shows of the of the eighties.

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How about from Different Strokes, Gary Coleman who passed away

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from Growing Pains, Alan Thick and from Full House Bob Sackett.

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I mean, this is these are big names.

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Just us norm from Cheers, mister Ratzenburg has passed on us.

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Allen Sick.

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That was a shock, I think to a lot of

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us when Alan Thick passed because Alan Tick always looked

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like man, that guy, he looks like a million bucks. No.

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I will tell you what.

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If you're listening here to Back to the Eighties and

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you want to mention somebody that we lost or that

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meant somebody something to you, go ahead and send us

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a note here at back the Number two the Eighties

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Radio at gmail dot com, go to our website drop

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us a note there as well, FM Eightiesradio dot com.

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And as a reminder, if you do want to listen

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to the songs that we play here, you must go

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to Live three sixty five and download you up on

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your phone. Look for Back to the Eighties Radio and

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just take us everywhere you go. You're gonna be able

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to hear it that way. In the meantime, we're going

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to be back with more on the topic of today

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people who we lost from the nineteen eighties. This is

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from Phil Collins in nineteen eighty five.

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One more night.

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Jamantasia, for sure you know it to day's a minute time,

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ottle bummer, no place to go, nothing to do.

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You know not anymore.

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I'm freaking out with your favorite new way every Tuesday

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at Fantasia Seevo. The motels, the Go Go's, the cards,

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missing persons, the police, like totally for sure.

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For sure, every Tuesday.

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Pantation is letting me give aways some of the records

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I play the best, sticks to the past concerts like

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the motels at the Universal Ampitheater. I'm freaking out, for sure.

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I'll see you at Fantasia this Tuesday, getting me with

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a maxaphone.

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I'm sure to this new Ways this Tuesday and every Tuesday. Fantasia,

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Third Level, Bonaventure Hotel six eight nine four to seven,

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seventh Center.

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Back to the eighties and radio we are back. You

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just heard Prince when doves Cry. We are talking about

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the people that we've lost from the nineteen eighties.

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Here's one right here, John Lennon. You know, I'm a

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beatle baby. I'm that old. A lot of people can

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hate him, call him a womanizer.

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You know.

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He did kind of screw over his first family to

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chase Yoko, which everybody has to find love. But she

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was a terrible singer. I have to give it up

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to the man because he always strived for peace. It's

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sad the way he was taken from us in the eighties.

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A lot of the hypocrisy is back Times two, a

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lot of worry sometimes good people and get out bloody

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from the bag and the psychond world.

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Myself.

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You want to know an interesting fact about John Lennon.

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I think people would find this kind of just funny.

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He was a massive fan of TV shows, especially watching

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TV series called Happy Days.

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