"You Can Win If You Want" is Modern Talking's second single released from their debut album The 1st Album. The single was released on 13 March 1985 and entered the top 10 in Germany on 13 May 1985. The album was certified platinum in Germany for selling over 500,000 units. Modern Talking was a German pop music duo consisting of arranger, songwriter and producer Dieter Bohlen and singer Thomas Anders. […]

"Gypsy Road" - Single by Cinderella from the album Long Cold Winter, released July 1988. Cinderella performs in the music video "Gypsy Road" from the album "Long Cold Winter" recorded for Mercury Records. The music video opens with the band performing on stage. The video for "Gypsy Road" was filmed in Yucatan, Mexico and features footage of the Mayan ruins at Chichén Itzá (who says you can't learn anything from […]

"We Don't Need Another Hero" by Tina Turner from the album: Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome (1985) Charted: #3 in UK, and # 2 in US. Written by Terry Britten and Graham Lyle, this is the theme song to the film Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome. The third installment of the post-apocalyptic Mad Max series finds star Mel Gibson at the mercy of a nefarious leader named Aunty Entity, played by Tina […]

"You Make My Dreams" - Single by Daryl Hall & John Oates from the album Voices, with B-side "Gotta Lotta Nerve (Perfect Perfect)". Released April/May 1981 Single. Album was released in 1980. Many movies and TV shows have used this song, including The Office, Glee, Step Brothers and The Wedding Singer. In the 2009 film 500 Days of Summer, it is part of a group dance scene on a city […]

"Start Me Up" by The Rolling Stones from the album Tattoo You (1981). Charted #7 in UK and #2 in US. This was (fittingly) the first single from Tattoo You, the album that brought the Rolling Stones into the MTV era, earning them a new wave of American fans in the process. They had been making videos since the '60s, often with the film-maker Michael Lindsay-Hogg, who returned to direct […]

"Hot in the City" - Single by Billy Idol from the album Billy Idol Released: May 27, 1982 Songwriter: Billy Idol Charted: No.13 in UK, No.24 in US "Hot in the City" is a song by Billy Idol, released as the lead single from his 1982 self-titled debut album. It charted at No. 23 in the US and No. 58 in the UK. A remix of the song was released […]

"I Love Rock 'n' Roll" was the first single released in December 1981 by the Joan Jett from her album with the same title. Charted #4 in UK and #1 in US. This was originally recorded by a British group called The Arrows in 1975, and it was written by their lead singer Alan Merrill and guitarist Jake Hooker. Jett was touring England as a member of an all teenage […]