Hello friends, thank you as always for joining me as we wrap up the year that was musical

new release wise, 1982, you know what I'm going to say, let me say it anyway.

This show is going to be a whopper, but beyond the big artists who highlighted the new

releases of November and December of 1982, there were actually an even greater number

of to my mind and to my ears, almost equally interesting, also, rants.

What were some of the biggest names of disco doing in 1982 as they fought for their career,

lives, what were the village people doing, what were chic doing, what was Grace Jones doing,

what was Shaka Khan doing, what were midnight oil up to, what happened when Rico Kasek

of the Cars went solo, these are critical questions and I have the answers on a Patreon

exclusive pod that you can hear, for free, when you're done with this one, come find us

over there, the fun will continue at patreon.com slash mic tully patreon.com slash mic tully.

Coming to you live on tape from a deluxe podcast bunker in rapidly gentrifying Culver City

of Jason California, boasting a partially obstructed view of the world famous Hollywood

sign.

This is the Tully show, I am your host, mic tully, your eyes do not deceive you, we're

doing this, yet again, three consecutive shows of old new music releases, we will be wrapping

up the musical new release year that was 1982, we've talked about this before the fourth

quarter for obvious reasons was always heavily loaded with noteworthy new releases.

This is when the record industry was, this is when there was a record industry and they

sold records, they sold plastic pieces of vinyl and that's how they made their money

and actually in one case that we'll be talking about today, also eight track tapes and

people, kids drive music sales and kids ask for stuff for Christmas and so do grownups,

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