April 12, 2012 Originally part of Buster Meikle & The Day Breakers, Russ Ballard started his career in 1961. In 1972, he scored big as the singer for Argent, singing their hit "Hold Your Head Up" which went to #5 here and in the U.K.
April 10, 2012 Originally known as The Patriots, The Fixx was formed in 1979 in England by college buddies Cy Curnin and Adam Woods, although when they first named the band it only had one "x"...
April 3, 2012 Tonight's 80's @ 8 video is one of Bon Jovi's most popular songs. "Bad Medicine" came off the New Jersey cd and rocketed to #1 in 1988...
April 2, 2012 From the wacked-out world of Ted Nugent came this 1980 song..."Wango Tango" off the Scream Dream album. While it never received much acclaim (it only reached #86 on the Billboard Hot 100), it became a staple at all Nugent shows. It als
March 30, 2012 From the 1983 smash album Pyromania, "Photograph" was a number 1 hit for Def Leppard. Although you wouldn't know it from the lyrics, the song is a tribute to Marilyn Monroe...hence the photo of her throughout the video. I foun
March 28, 2012 The most famous phone number in the world belonged to a girl named Jenny. "867-5309/Jenny" went to the top of the charts in 1982 for Tommy Tutone. Depending on who you believe, either Jenny was real or she was made up...
March 27, 2012 It was on this very day in 1986 that Sammy Hagar made his first live appearance with Van Halen. The show was in Shreveport, Louisiana at the Hirsch Memorial Colisuem. Their first song was the cover of The Kink's "You Really Got Me", which surprised me as that was a DLR/Van Halen staple
March 26, 2012 Gypsy Road
March 26, 2012 This tune has that top-down, lead-foot sound that makes me wanna hit the highway whenever I hear it.
March 21, 2012 There isn't a single person who reads this story that hasn't seen at least one episode of American Bandstand. I'd bet my bosses Ferrari on it. Words like "institution" and "legendary" easily describe the show we all watched to get a glimpse of the artists and see our fellow teens dance.
March 20, 2012 This goes down as one of the oddest and, in my opinion as I hate spiders, one of the creepiest music videos ever made. From 1983, "Owner Of A Lonely Heart" made it to #1 for the English band Yes and was their biggest success on the US charts.
March 19, 2012 Tonight's Feature Video deals with the sadder side of Rock 'n Roll. It was on this day in 1982, former Quiet Riot and then-current Ozzie guitarist Randy Rhoads was killed when a small plane he was riding in crashed.
