To celebrate Sir Elton John's farewell tour, we've found some rare press conferences and interviews from previous visits to Australia in 1974, 1984 and 1988.

Elton John in Sydney in February 1984 held a press conference behind the bar of the Woolloomooloo Bay Hotel before kicking off his Too Low For Zero tour of Australia. 

In November 1979, Australian band Mental As Anything released their debut album 'Get Wet' and launched a long career.

We've published a Retro Gaming curated collection online that captures some of the ways that games have intersected with Australian popular culture since the 1970s.

Mr T promotes the Atari 800XL home computer in this advertisement from the mid-1980s.

How have video games intersected with Australian popular culture since the 1970s?

This item from 4ZZZfm reports on a 1983 women's protest at Bondi Junction in Sydney against the public sale of a video game called Custer's Revenge. 

This is an ad for the ColecoVision video game console that was released in 1982.

This TEN Eyewitness News examines concerns expressed by parents when a pinball parlour is planned to open opposite their local school.

This is a poster for Tron, a 1982 science-fiction film directed by Steven Lisberger.