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(HONKING)

Whoo-hoo!

Hey!

ALL: Countdown.

Countdown.

Countdown!

(IMITATES GUITAR)

♪ Countdown, Countdown

♪ Countdown, Countdown

ANNOUNCER: Welcome to Classic Countdown, 1982.

♪ Countdown! ♪

SHANE: Some developments made life a little brighter in 1982.

Firstly, we all started working out.

Then we learned we could just as easily work out at home.

Invading aliens from outer space turned out to be friendly.

And life was simply better

because the saxophone was back in a big way.

We got our first look at an indestructible new technology.

And here it is, the compact disc.

It's a marvellous little thing. It's a laser disc.

You can see the sort of laser colours in it.

Because it's laser cut, you can sort of finger it.

You can sort of scratch it, and everything like that,

and it will not impair the sound.

A federal election wasn't far off,

so we also started to face some facts.

ABC reporters in their conversations

with caucus members at the conference

have concluded Mr Hawke has a better chance

than he has so far been given.

But Mr Keating's undecided.

REPORTER: It was the biggest demonstration

since the days of the Vietnam moratorium marches.

But it looked like two big issues would be

the environment and rights for indigenous people.

What do we want? Land rights!

When do we want it? Now!

Of course, sporting events would provide

the usual distraction from too much thinking.

In 1982, the Americans sent the big guns to Countdown

to remind us who invented rock'n'roll.

♪ Is all you get in jail

♪ They call it Nutbush

♪ Oh, Nutbush

♪ They call it Nutbush too

♪ Nutbush City Limits. ♪

(CHEERING)

♪ I saw him dancing there by the record machine

♪ I knew he must have been about 17

♪ The beat was going strong

♪ Playing my favourite song

♪ And I could tell it wouldn't be long

♪ That he was with me, yeah, me

♪ And I could tell it wouldn't be long

♪ That he was with me, yeah, me, singing

♪ I love rock'n'roll

♪ So put another dime in the jukebox, baby

♪ I love rock'n'roll

♪ So come and take your time and dance with me

♪ He smiled so I got up and asked for his name

♪ "That don't matter," he said, "because it's all the same"

♪ Said, "Can I take you home where we can be alone?"

♪ And next we were moving on

♪ He was with me, yeah, me

♪ Next we were moving on

♪ He was with me, yeah, me, singing

♪ I love rock'n'roll

♪ So put another dime in the jukebox, baby

♪ I love rock'n'roll

♪ So come and take your time and dance with me

♪ Said, "can I take you home where we can be alone?"

♪ Next we're moving on

♪ He was with me, yeah, me

♪ And we'll be moving on and singing that same old song

♪ Yeah, with me, singing I love rock'n'roll

♪ So put another dime in the jukebox, baby

♪ I love rock'n'roll

♪ So come and take your time and dance with me

♪ I love rock'n'roll

♪ So put another dime in the jukebox, baby

♪ I love rock'n'roll

♪ So come and take your time and dance with

♪ I love rock'n'roll

♪ So put another dime in the jukebox, baby

♪ I love rock'n'roll

♪ So come and take your time and dance with

♪ I love rock'n'roll

♪ So put another dime in the jukebox, baby

♪ I love rock'n'roll

♪ So come and take your time and dance with

♪ I love rock'n'roll

♪ So put another dime in the jukebox, baby

♪ I love rock'n'roll

♪ So come and take your time and dance with me. ♪

(CHEERING)

SHANE: A parade of American bands followed

Joan Jett to Countdown in '82,

each seeming more impressive than the last.

♪ Baby makes her blue jeans

♪ Yes, she makes her blue jeans talk

♪ Baby makes her blue jeans

♪ Yes, she makes her blue jeans talk. ♪

They could take blue-eyed soul and give it a backbeat.

♪ Oh, here she comes

♪ Watch out, boy, she'll chew you up

♪ Oh, here she comes

♪ She's a man eater

♪ Oh, here she comes

♪ Watch out, boy, she'll chew you up

♪ Oh, here she comes

♪ She's a man eater. ♪

No one created teen idols better than the Americans.

♪ How can I live without her

♪ When she's all

♪ I'm living for

♪ How could I live without her?

♪ Live like I did before. ♪

And they had music from California

with a confidence and energy that was infectious.

♪ Can you hear them?

♪ They talk about us

♪ Telling lies

♪ Well, that's no surprise

♪ Can you see them?

♪ See right through them

♪ They have no shield, no secrets to reveal

♪ It doesn't matter what they say

♪ In the jealous games people play

♪ Our lips are sealed

♪ There's a weapon that we must use

♪ In our defence

♪ Silence

♪ When you look at them

♪ Look right through them

♪ That's when they'll disappear

♪ That's when we'll be feared

♪ It doesn't matter what they say

♪ In the jealous games people play

♪ Our lips are sealed

♪ Give no mind to what they say

♪ It doesn't matter anyway

♪ Our lips are sealed

♪ Hush, my darling

♪ Don't you cry

♪ Quiet angel

♪ Forget their lies

♪ Can you hear them?

♪ They talk about us

♪ Telling lies well, that's no surprise

♪ Can you see them?

♪ See right through them

♪ They have no shield, no secrets to reveal

♪ It doesn't matter what they say

♪ In the jealous games people play

♪ Our lips are sealed

♪ Pay no mind to what they say

♪ It doesn't matter anyway

♪ Our lips are sealed. ♪

♪ There's an old piano and they play it hard

SHANE: But the British weren't fazed,

unleashing Shakin' Stevens,

one of their biggest selling singles artists of the '80s.

♪ But they laugh a lot behind the green door

♪ Green door

♪ Wish they'd let me in so I could find out

♪ What's behind the green door. ♪

Prolific '70s hit makers,

Hot Chocolate were still going strong.

♪ It started with a kiss

♪ Never thought it would come to this

♪ Started with a kiss

♪ Never thought it would come to this

♪ You don't remember me, do you?

♪ You don't remember me, do you? ♪

They also had the King of Countdown, Elton.

♪ Blue eyes holding back the tears

♪ Holding back the pain

♪ Baby's got blue eyes

♪ And she's alone

♪ Again. ♪

Like they'd done with Fleetwood Mac,

the English could always borrow a US singer.

♪ Each day drags by until finally

♪ My time descends on me

♪ I go to sleep

♪ Sleep

♪ And imagine that you're there with me

♪ I go to sleep

♪ Sleep

♪ And imagine that you're there with me. ♪

And if the Brits needed to scare away the opposition,

they just knew they could call in the heavy artillery.

♪ I left alone

♪ My mind was blank

♪ I needed time to think

♪ To get the memories from my mind

♪ What did I see

♪ Can I believe

♪ That what I saw that night was real

♪ And not just fantasy?

♪ Just what I saw

♪ In my old dreams

♪ Were they reflections of my warped mind

♪ Staring back at me?

♪ Because in my dreams

♪ It's always there

♪ The evil face that twists my mind

♪ And brings me to despair

(SCREAMS)

♪ Night was black, was no use holding back

♪ Because I just had to see

♪ Was someone watching me?

♪ In the mist, dark figures move and twist

♪ Was all this for real?

♪ Or just some kind of hell?

♪ 666

♪ The number of the beast

♪ Hell and fire was spawned to be released

♪ Torches blazed, and sacred chants were praised

♪ As they start to cry

♪ Hands held to the sky

♪ In the night, the fires are burning bright

♪ The ritual has begun

♪ Satan's work is done

♪ 666

♪ The number of the beast

♪ Sacrifice

♪ Is going on tonight

♪ This can't go on

♪ I must inform the law

♪ Can this still be real?

♪ Or just some crazy dream?

♪ But I feel drawn towards the chanting hordes

♪ They seem to mesmerise

♪ Can't avoid their eyes

♪ 666

♪ The number of the beast

♪ 666

♪ The one for you and me

♪ I'm coming back

♪ I will return

♪ And I'll possess your body

♪ And I'll make you burn

♪ I have the fire

♪ I have the force

♪ I have the power to make my evil

♪ Take its course. ♪

(CHEERING)

SHANE: The real strength in the British musical armoury

was synth pop.

There's a big movement in England

that they're trying to force a lot of American music on us,

and they're doing it quite well at the moment.

They managed it well with Foreigner, didn't they?

That got into the top ten in Britain

and that was only because in the main pop program

on British television,

they've got five minutes that's devoted just to American music.

Which I think's really offensive.

Well, we've always sort of expected to be quite successful

right from the start, but then when we were successful,

it was very, very big and very, very quick.

Shocking, really.

I always knew that I would be successful,

but I never thought I'd have to start playing

the synthesiser to do it.

You notice, when he plays synthesiser like that,

his hands suddenly get going like this.

And then he goes back.

It's like Dr Strangelove with his arm.

And then Adrian rushes up and gives me another injection.

Hello, I'm John from the Human League.

(ALL LAUGH)

Oh, stop laughing at me.

Stop putting this accent on.

SHANE: Already one of Princess Diana's favourite bands,

Duran Duran were about to become global favourites,

doing synth pop their own way.

♪ I saw you at the air race yesterday

♪ April showers get out of my way

♪ Fear of flying, no, not me

♪ I'm never bothered what you say

♪ Someone's kid just lives for today

♪ It ain't your problem anyway

♪ Because I've got my own way

♪ I can find my own way

♪ Because I've got my own way

♪ Hey, yay-yay-yay-yay-yay

♪ Because I've got my own way

♪ I can find my own way

♪ Because I've got my own way

(CHEERING)

♪ A public figure, what a pain

♪ Just puts another rattle in your brain

♪ Take another green, but it's not the same

♪ But now you're on the sand lane everyday

♪ Dancing with the bulls in any old way

♪ Running like a fox to keep up with me

♪ Because I've got my own way

♪ I can find my own way

♪ Because I've got my own way

♪ Hey, yay-yay-yay-yay-yay

♪ Because I've got my own way

♪ I can find my own way

♪ Because I've got my own way

♪ Hey, yay-yay-yay-yay-yay

♪ Because I've got my own way

♪ I can find my own way

♪ Because I've got my own way

♪ Hey, yay-yay-yay-yay-yay

♪ Because I've got my own way

♪ I can find my own way

♪ Because I've got my own way

♪ Hey, yay-yay-yay-yay-yay. ♪

(CHEERS)

♪ Button up your lips

SHANE: Jamaican born artist Grace Jones

took synth pop and gave it some New York sophistication.

♪ Walking

♪ Walking in the rain. ♪

American band Devo plugged in their synthesisers

and did this with them.

♪ I been working in a coal mine

♪ Going down, down

♪ Working in a coal mine

♪ Whew, about to slip down. ♪

And this...

♪ Crack that whip

♪ Give the past the slip

♪ Step on a crack

♪ Break your momma's back

♪ When a problem comes along

♪ You must whip it

♪ Before the cream sits out too long

♪ You must whip it

♪ When something's going wrong

♪ You must whip it

♪ Now whip it into shape

♪ Shape it up

♪ Get straight

♪ Go forward

♪ Move ahead

♪ Try to detect it

♪ It's not too late

♪ To whip it, whip it good!

♪ When a good time turns around

♪ You must whip it

♪ You will never live it down

♪ Unless you whip it

♪ No one gets away

♪ Until they whip it

♪ I say whip it

♪ Whip it good

♪ I say whip it

♪ Whip it good

♪ Crack that whip

♪ Give the past the slip

♪ Step on a crack

♪ Break your momma's back

♪ When a problem comes along

♪ You must whip it

♪ Before the cream sits out too long

♪ You must whip it

♪ When something's going wrong

♪ You must whip it

♪ Now whip it

♪ Into shape

♪ Shape it up

♪ Get straight

♪ Go forward

♪ Move ahead

♪ Try to detect it

♪ It's not too late

♪ To whip it

♪ Into shape

♪ Shape it up

♪ Get straight

♪ Go forward

♪ Move ahead

♪ Try to detect it

♪ It's not too late

♪ To whip it

♪ Whip it good. ♪

Hi, I'm Clare from Altered Images

and you're watching Countdown '82.

(LAUGHS)

Wow, we'll start again.

Serious face.

No giggling.

SHANE: English pop stars seemed so confident and polished.

IAN: When you look back on the three hits that you've had,

do you and your brothers sort of purposely go out to find...

You know? In other words, do you not back tracks

that you may write, or what?

Is it calculated thing?

It's a strange question, you know.

I mean, is it like...

Let me start again.

I didn't understand the question at all. (LAUGHS)

I'm perfectly mixed up myself. It went on for so long.

It was like an epic.

I'm flavour of the month every month, or whatever it is.

You couldn't imagine some of the new British musicians

being anything other than a pop star.

For me, the warrior make-up is me

as much as Alice Cooper's make-up is, you know, the thing

with the, you know, the ghoulish thing.

That's sort of what people identify with him

and he'll never get away from that.

I don't think I'll ever get away from the warrior,

not that I want to.

There'll never be another Beatles.

But I hope in ten year's time,

people will say there'll never be another Adam and the Ants.

SHANE: While Adam was looking to the future,

I was inspired by stories as old as time,

and Goanna joined the struggle for justice.

(APPLAUSE)

♪ Out here nothing changes

♪ Not in a hurry anyway

♪ You feel the endlessness

♪ With the coming of the light of day

♪ Talking about a chosen place

♪ You want to sell it in a marketplace, well

♪ Well, just a minute now

♪ You're standing on

♪ Solid rock

♪ Standing on sacred ground

♪ Living on borrowed time

♪ And the winds of change

♪ Are blowing down the line

♪ Right down the line

♪ Round about the dawn of time

♪ When dreaming all began

♪ A crowd of people came

♪ Well, they were looking for their promised land

♪ They're running from the heart of darkness

♪ Searching for the heart of light

♪ Well, I think we found paradise

♪ But they were standing on

♪ Solid rock

♪ Standing on sacred ground

♪ Living on borrowed time

♪ And the winds of change

♪ Were blowing cold that night

♪ No

♪ They were standing on the shore one day

♪ Saw the white sails in the sun

♪ It wasn't long before they felt the sting

♪ White man, white law, white gun

♪ Don't tell me that it's justified

♪ Because somewhere

♪ Well, someone lied

♪ Yeah, well, someone lied

♪ Someone lied

♪ Genocide

♪ Well, someone lied

♪ Oh!

♪ And now you're standing on

♪ Solid rock

♪ Standing on a sacred ground

♪ Living on borrowed time

♪ And the winds of change

♪ Are blowing down the line

♪ Solid rock

♪ Standing on sacred ground

♪ Living on borrowed time

♪ And the winds of change

♪ Are blowing down the line

♪ Solid rock

♪ Oh-ho, sacred ground

♪ Living on borrowed time

♪ And the winds of change

♪ Are blowing down the line

(CHEERING)

♪ And tell me

if it's still raining there in England

SHANE: We were just starting out, but in 1982,

it felt like some of our peers had gone up a gear.

♪ And tell me

♪ If it's still raining there in England

♪ Adventures so hard to come by

♪ If you ever come back, just drop by

♪ One perfect day

♪ One perfect day

♪ One perfect day. ♪

♪ Lady, what's your name?

Barnesy's brother, John Swan,

finally had some well-deserved success.

♪ In the rain

♪ Just a little smile will make my day

♪ Loving you has made me live

♪ Again

♪ What's your name?

♪ And can I walk beside you in the rain?

♪ Just a little smile will make my day. ♪

Split Enz kept taking their writing up a notch.

♪ I don't want to sail for the middle of nowhere tonight

♪ Dirty Creature's got me at a disadvantage from the inside

♪ I don't want to sail upon the waters of invention tonight. ♪

And there was no doubt INXS

were about to pass everyone in the street.

♪ I'm standing here on the ground

♪ The sky above won't fall down

♪ See no evil

♪ In all directions

♪ Resolution

♪ Of happiness

♪ Things have been dark

♪ For too long

♪ Don't change for you

♪ Don't change a thing for me

♪ Don't change for you

♪ Don't change a thing for me

♪ I found a love I had lost

♪ It was gone for too long

♪ Hear no evil

♪ In all directions

♪ Execution

♪ Of bitterness

♪ Message received loud and clear

♪ Don't change for you

♪ Don't change a thing for me

♪ Don't change for you

♪ Don't change a thing for me

♪ I'm standing here on the ground

♪ The sky above

♪ Won't fall down

♪ See no evil in all directions

♪ Resolution of happiness

♪ Things have been dark for too long

♪ Don't change for you

♪ Don't change a thing for me

♪ Don't change for you

♪ Don't change a thing for me

♪ Don't change for you

♪ Don't change a thing for me

♪ Don't

♪ Change

♪ Don't

♪ Change. ♪

♪ You can take a mule up the mountains

♪ To the picnic spots

SHANE: The fashions displayed in the Countdown studio

in 1982 were wide ranging, from Heather Favell's

comfortably snug jeans and sunny polo...

♪ Holiday

♪ From city madness

♪ Cock

♪ Tails

♪ On the patio. ♪

♪ And the music starts to play, and I'm so excited

to the quintessentially '80s crimped hair

and pastels of the Moir Sisters.

♪ It feels alright

♪ I'm alright

♪ We're alright

♪ It feels alright

♪ I'm alright

♪ We're alright. ♪

Julian Cope of Teardrop Explodes

almost started a craze

where everyone dressed Old Testament style.

Almost.

♪ Darkness that is shattered

♪ By the dawn. ♪

(CHEERS)

And the Fruit Pastilles' punk powered dressing

just screams 1982.

♪ I don't ever want to see you again

♪ I don't ever want to hear your name again

♪ I don't ever want to know of you again

♪ I no longer consider you a friend

♪ Round sticks of bamboo slammed under nails

♪ I'd rather be lacerated by a cat of nine tails

♪ I'd rather be whipped and beaten

♪ Bashed and mutilated

♪ I much prefer to be publicly humiliated

♪ But I don't ever want to see you again

♪ I don't ever want to hear your name again

♪ I don't ever want to know of you again

♪ I no longer consider you a friend

Hope, I just don't know what to do about that boy.

He's made me so irritable I could die.

Chas, Just get rid of him! Get him out of your life!

He's not for you! Just get rid of him!

Chop his head off! Murder him! Murder him!

BOTH: Murder him! Murder him! Murder him! Murder him!

Murder him! Murder him! Murder him!

(SINGS INDISTINCTLY)

♪ And they left me bleeding, starving, of course!

♪ I'd rather they set fire to my hair and stamped it out

♪ I'd rather they acupuncture me inside and out, out, out!

♪ I don't ever want to see you again

♪ I don't ever want to hear your name again

♪ I don't ever want to know you again

♪ I no longer consider you a friend

♪ I'd rather be golden in a vat of molten lead

♪ I'd rather be bashed repeatedly about the head

♪ I'd rather knitting needles going through my brain

♪ And go through some of the most excruciating pain

Here he comes, walking down the street toward us.

What are you going to do?

I'm going to get him and get him good.

Oh, hell, he's seen us!

I hate him! Get him!

I hate him! Get him!

I hate him! Get him!

(BOTH SCREAM)

♪ I never want to see you again. ♪

Ah, thank you very much, you salty young dogs.

You're over there? You're better this week?

Much better, Molly, thank you.

The sea air, eh? It is.

Thank goodness for that. What's your name?

IAN: My name is Ian.

Your name's what? Molly.

Molly.

I've got a daughter called Molly, and I just hope

she doesn't look like you when she grows up.

(LAUGHS) Fair enough.

Alright, would you believe that this little monster here...

We'll see if we can get a close-up of it.

(BEEPS)

That little monster there that's been eating

and gobbling away things is a guy called the Pac-Man, right?

And it's been causing a storm right around the country,

including America, as well.

In fact, it's the most popular game in America.

And of course, the good old recording industry

had to get in on the act,

and here's the single called Pac-Man Fever.

It's a disco sort of number,

and it's sort of, like, well, it's OK.

And I think that we're all quite heartily sick and tired.

And it just makes my stomach churn to see

in the papers every day and on the news at night

the awful carnage that's going on throughout the world today.

I don't pick any sides, but it just breaks my heart

to see children in the news, as we've been seeing in Beirut.

Just lying in hospitals, the poor little things,

with their arms missing and everything else like that.

And I think the people of Australia are very lucky,

but we can do more than that,

and I think the people of Australia

could strive for some peace.

And after all, it was only two years ago

when we had the Year of the Child,

so let's start looking after all the children

throughout the world and say something about it.

Alright, amidst the chaos, here's another album.

How do you hold them, Neil, so they don't flare?

You look at the monitor, Tim,

so that you make sure it's not flaring.

See, there's the old flare there.

Well, that's enough said about that.

I believe it's quite well. You don't like it?

Alright, just very quickly explain.

It's one of these super group thingy's.

John Wetton, Steve Howe.

I don't go for it myself. I don't mind it.

Watch out for it because it is going to be a big one.

You saw them before.

OK, moving along. Moving right along.

Now, listen, I've got to say...

What a spunk? She's great.

What a spank? What does that mean? What a spank?

No, spunk.

It means you're pretty good, alright, in Australian terms.

Oh. Pretty good? That's all?

No, no, no.

I must congratulate you, seriously.

Thank you, Molly. On that single.

What are your names? Where's Hope?

This is Hope and I'm Chastity.

Oh, you're too courteous. Michael and Marc, right?

You're too wonderful.

It's an absolute wonderful single,

and it's time to say goodnight.

Goodnight!

Do you like the single? Love it.

Yeah, it is. It's great.

So the advice we give you two is be clean as well.

It's time to say goodnight. OK. Clean and wonderful.

Alright, listen, it's time to say goodnight,

and the number one record...

Hold on. Ssh, ssh.

The number...

(CHEERS)

The number one record...

The number one record...

(CHEERS)

The number one record...

(CHEERS)

Before I was rudely interrupted,

the number one record is your supporting group,

who've done a great job on this side.

Perfect pitches. What about me?

♪ Nothing grows in Texas

SHANE: Australian trailblazers kept pointing the way forward.

♪ Nothing grows in Texas

♪ Nothing grows

♪ In Texas. ♪

The local metal scene continued to find its own voice.

♪ Hanging around in my fantasy

♪ Fantasy

♪ You're in my fantasy

♪ Fantasy. ♪

In 1982, Sardine released arguably the nation's first

enviro-electric, punk protest song.

♪ They took away your beauty strong

♪ And played business over your grave

♪ And sold to you with plastic bags

♪ What the river God gave for free. ♪

♪ And if it doesn't feel right when I hold you tight

♪ Oh baby, it's alright

♪ I am awfully lonely

♪ I am awfully lonely. ♪

Chrissy Amphlett inspired generations

of future female rock stars.

♪ If we do get involved

♪ Ooh, baby

♪ Wonder if we could get involved. ♪

But when you become the first international voice

of an entire ancient culture, as No Fixed Address did,

then you're more than a trailblazer.

You're a revolutionary.

♪ Sitting in the sunlight

♪ With my head towards the sun

♪ Suddenly, there's a cloud above me

♪ Blocking out that sunlight from my eyes

♪ Ooh, ooh

♪ From my eyes, from my eyes

♪ Ooh, ooh

♪ From my eyes

♪ In this world, you've got to have eyes

♪ Because the people try to blow your mind

♪ Like the cloud that was floating in the sky

♪ Blocking out the sunlight

♪ From my eyes

♪ Ooh

♪ From my eyes, from my eyes

♪ Ooh

♪ From my eyes

♪ I need some light so that I can see

♪ Oh, yeah

♪ Don't go taking the sunlight

♪ Because that's all that I can see

♪ I need sunlight so that I can

♪ Fight for my rights

♪ So, so

♪ I can be free

♪ Oh, yeah

♪ If you sit with me

♪ And try to be my friend

♪ Don't ever try to take the sunlight

♪ It's all that I can see

♪ I don't want to be blind

♪ Ooh, ooh

♪ Oh, yeah, I don't want to be blind

♪ Ooh, ooh

♪ Whoa, man

♪ Whoa, whoa, whoa

♪ Don't take that sunlight

♪ I need the sunlight, yeah, yeah

♪ Whoa, whoa, whoa

♪ Don't take that sunlight, I need the sunlight, yeah, yeah

♪ Whoa, whoa, whoa. ♪

♪ Daddy's home

SHANE: Many of the old campaigners would continue

to be relevant in the new decade.

Cliff was still hanging on.

♪ To stay

♪ Daddy's home

♪ To

♪ Stay

♪ I'm not a thousand miles away. ♪

(CHEERS)

♪ Give me a happy ending

Peter Cupples from Stylus would record a song

for the soundtrack of The Pirate Movie,

giving Molly the chance to barge in.

♪ Everything will work out

♪ It'll all work out

♪ For a happy ending. ♪

♪ There's no way...

And modern Aus rock had really begun with Daddy Cool,

so it was great to see Ross Wilson powering on.

♪ There's no time

♪ Oh, no time

♪ No time to be let down

♪ To be let down

♪ Oh, no, girl!

♪ I'm trying because there's no time

♪ Well, baby, there's no time

♪ No, no time

♪ No time to be let down

♪ To be let down

♪ Let down

♪ I'll tell you, there's just no time. ♪

♪ I never dreamed...

That's not to say that the younger brigade

weren't holding their own.

♪ This life preserved

♪ For a friend

♪ Who you trying to get in touch with?

♪ Who you trying to get in touch with?

♪ Who you trying to get in touch with?

♪ I'm almost with you

♪ I can sense it, wait for me

♪ I'm almost with you

♪ Is this the taste of victory? ♪

And Aussie newcomers Moving Pictures

had one of the songs of the year.

♪ Well there's a little boy waiting

♪ At the counter of a corner shop

♪ He's been waiting down there

♪ Waiting half the day

♪ They never ever see him from the time

♪ He gets pushed around

♪ Knocked to the ground

♪ He gets to his feet and he says

♪ What about me?

♪ It isn't fair

♪ I've had enough, now I want my share

♪ Can't you see?

♪ I want to live

♪ But you just take more than you give

♪ Well, there's a pretty girl serving

♪ At the counter of a corner shop

♪ She's been waiting back there

♪ Waiting for her dream

♪ Her dreams walk in and out, they never stop

♪ Well, she's not too proud to cry out loud

♪ She runs to the street and she screams

♪ What about me?

♪ It isn't fair

♪ I've had enough, now I want my share

♪ Can't you see?

♪ I want to live

♪ But you just take more than you give

♪ More than you give

♪ Take a step back and see the little people

♪ They're not the young, but they're the words

♪ That make the big

♪ People big

♪ So listen as they whisper

♪ What about me?

♪ Now we're standing on the corner

♪ All the world's gone home

♪ Nobody's changed

♪ Nobody's been saved

♪ And I'm feeling cold and alone

♪ I guess I'm lucky, I smile a lot

♪ But sometimes I wish for more

♪ Than I've got

♪ What about me?

♪ It isn't fair

♪ I've had enough, now I want my share

♪ Can't you see?

♪ I want to live

♪ But you just take more

♪ What about me?

♪ It isn't fair

♪ I've had enough, now I want my share

♪ Can't you see?

♪ I want to live

♪ But you just take more

♪ You just take more

♪ You just take more

♪ Than you give

♪ What about me?

♪ What about me?

♪ What about me? ♪

♪ Do you really want to hurt me? ♪

SHANE: Moving Pictures remained at number one

for six weeks in '82,

but Culture Club weren't to be outdone,

also staying at the top for six weeks

with Do You Really Want to Hurt Me?

I'm so sorry that we can't come and play in Adelaide.

The next time we come, we should put on a show.

Although he had the looks of Prince Charming,

Adam Ant had his last hurrah

on the Australian charts with Goody Two Shoes.

IAN: Is there any pressure that you feel yourself

that you've got to come up with something

because you are there at the top?

Yeah. I mean, it's very competitive.

I'm only competing with myself because I know to a point...

Or your old records, aren't you?

Yeah. Pfft!

♪ And she said do you come from a land down under?

Men At Work's single, Down Under,

showed no signs of sinking.

♪ Can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder?

♪ You better run, you better take cover. ♪

ALL: Goodnight, Australia.

Hey!

But the infectious cheerleader chant, Mickey, by Toni Basil,

continues to get them up on the dance floor,

shaking their floggers decades later.

♪ You're so fine, you blow my mind

♪ Hey, Mickey, hey, Mickey

♪ Oh, Mickey, you're so fine

♪ You're so fine, you blow my mind

♪ Hey, Mickey

♪ Hey, Mickey!

♪ You've been around all night and that's a little long

♪ You think you've got the right,

♪ But I think you've got it wrong

♪ Why can't you say goodnight

♪ So you can take me home, Mickey?

♪ Because when you say you will, it always means you won't

♪ You're giving me the chills, baby, please, baby don't

♪ Every night you still leave me all alone, Mickey

♪ Oh, Mickey, what a pity, you don't understand

♪ You take me by the heart when you take me by the hand

♪ Oh, Mickey, you're so pretty, can't you understand?

♪ It's guys like you, Mickey

♪ Oh, what you do Mickey, do, Mickey

♪ Don't break my heart, Mickey

♪ Hey, Mickey

♪ Now when you take me by the hooves,

♪ Who's ever gonna know

♪ And every time you move, I let a little more show

♪ There's something you can use, so don't say no, Mickey

♪ So come on and give it to me anyway you can

♪ Anyway you want to do it, I'll take it like a man

♪ But please, baby, please

♪ Don't leave me in a jam, Mickey

♪ Oh, Mickey, what a pity, you don't understand

♪ You take me by the heart when you take me by the hand

♪ Oh, Mickey, you're so pretty, can't you understand?

♪ It's guys like you, Mickey

♪ Oh what you do, Mickey, do, Mickey

♪ Don't break my heart, Mickey

♪ Oh, Mickey, you're so fine

♪ You're so fine, you blow my mind,

♪ Hey, Mickey, hey, Mickey

♪ Oh, Mickey, you're so fine, you're so fine

♪ You blow my mind, hey, Mickey, hey, Mickey

♪ Oh Mickey, you're so fine

♪ You're so fine, you blow my mind,

♪ Hey, Mickey

♪ Oh, Mickey, what a pity, you don't understand

♪ You take me by the heart when you take me by the hand

♪ Oh, Mickey, you're so pretty, can't you understand?

♪ It's guys like you, Mickey

♪ Oh what you do, Mickey, do, Mickey

♪ Don't break my heart, Mickey

♪ Oh, Mickey, what a pity, you don't understand

♪ You take me by the heart when you take me by the hand

♪ Oh, Mickey, you're so pretty, can't you understand?

♪ It's guys like you, Mickey

♪ Oh, what you do, Mickey, do, Mickey

♪ Don't break my heart, Mickey

♪ Oh, Mickey, what a pity, you don't understand

♪ You take me by the heart when you take me by the hand

♪ Oh, Mickey, you're so pretty, can't you understand? ♪

Camera's rolling, and cue.

Hi, I'm Toni Basil

and we're on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles,

and you're watching Countdown.

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