80's

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...

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 also garnered very little love from Guitar World Magazine as they listed it at #7 on their Worst Guitar Solos Ever countdown...

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 found the un-edited video for you tonight...

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...

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...

Gypsy Road

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.

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.

As many times as I've seen this video, I still can't figure out what cars and ballroom dancing have to do with Def Leppard's 1987 hit "Hysteria".

In honor of Dee Snider's 57th birthday today, we're gonna rock out to this anti-establishment song from the 1984 album Stay Hungry.

There are very few rock songs that are sung by the band's drummer. "Sister Christian" was not only crooned by Night Ranger stick man Kelly Keagy, it was written by him too.

It's time to rock out to those talented Germans Rudolf and Klaus from the Scorpions! "Big City Nights" wasn't as big as "Rock You Like A Hurricane" or "Winds Of Change", but it still stands the test of time.