Greatest hits of 1980s

By Rob Sheffield.

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Greatest hits of 1980s

The s may have been the decade of questionable fashion choices, but we'll probably say the same about the s in a few years It was also the decade of great movies, the rise of video games and downright fantastic music. We've attempted the ridiculously hard but not in any way a chore task of picking the very best s songs ever. Here are our picks - are your favourites in there? You might not have realised it, but Neil Diamond first recorded this song back in But it's UB40's cover that became the most well-known in The song truly brought the band to the mainstream, and reached number one in the UK. It ended up topping the US charts too in , after being performed at Nelson Mandela's birthday tribute concert. This ballad saw Phil Collins sing the tune from a third-person perspective, looking at a man crossing the street to ignore a homeless woman, imploring listeners not to turn a blind eye to those in need. It became Phil's seventh and final number one single in America, while David Crosby of Crosby, Stills and Nash appears on backing vocals. This was the song that made Boy George an even bigger star around the world. It was the UK's biggest selling single of and topped the US chart. Boy George later explained the song: "It is about the terrible fear of alienation that people have, the fear of standing up for one thing. It's about trying to suck up to everybody.

Probably Billy Ocean 's biggest and most famous hit, this track reached number one in the UK and number two in the US, greatest hits of 1980s. Soft Cell Tainted Love The song is said to tell a grittily realistic story of a working poor woman trying to escape the cycle of poverty.

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Greatest hits of 1980s

The s may have been the decade of questionable fashion choices, but we'll probably say the same about the s in a few years It was also the decade of great movies, the rise of video games and downright fantastic music. We've attempted the ridiculously hard but not in any way a chore task of picking the very best s songs ever. Here are our picks - are your favourites in there? You might not have realised it, but Neil Diamond first recorded this song back in

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It ended up topping the US charts too in , after being performed at Nelson Mandela's birthday tribute concert. The song was inspired by a break-up lead singer Martin Fry had experienced. We weren't trying to follow any trend or fit into any category — we were just doing our own thing. Sometimes all you really need for a truly memorable hit is economy, as proved by this stone-cold classic from This was the Juice! The ultimate feel-good '80s movie pop anthem, Huey Lewis was hired to come up with a couple of tunes for Back to the Future , and he more than succeeded with this. Mick Hucknall wrote it when he was just 17, but the chorus didn't arrive until years later. New Romantic synth-pop invades MTV. Powered by WordPress. Maybe not surprising, coming from a band named after an amphetamine, but the UK group propels the juddering rhythms of its classic single like a dynamo, chugging through tempo changes while picking up steam for the big finish. You got what I neeeed! Listen up everybody, if you wanna take a chance. David Bowie had originally come to sing backup vocals on another song, but his vocals were removed because he was not satisfied. And I thought, 'well, no, why not a deal with God! Echo meets the Bunnymen.

The Billboard Hot is the main song chart of the American music industry and is updated every week by the Billboard magazine. During the s the chart was based collectively on each single's weekly physical sales figures and airplay on American radio stations. George Michael was the only artist to achieve two year-end Billboard Hot number-one singles in the s.

It reached top five in the UK and topped the US dance chart. Go to PMC. Neither made any other record with this sound. The Story of Why does it still feel like the future? Specifically, the lead single slaps, especially on the iconic slap-bass solo fired off nonchalantly by Bakithi Kumalo. This was the Juice! It's about trying to suck up to everybody. It all adds up to a brain-obliterating noise that feels like rapture. The song was inspired after singer Philip Oakey read a story in a teen-girl's magazine. The greatest humming solo ever. Echo meets the Bunnymen.