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Thanks to the Aussie band the Oompah Roundabout for reminding us of the great 80s music.

'According to an interview with Howard Stern, Joel had originally titled the song "Uptown Girls" and it was conceived on an occasion when he was surrounded by Christie Brinkley, Whitney Houston and his then girlfriend Elle Macpherson. According to numerous interviews with Joel, the song was initially written about his relationship with Macpherson, but it ended up also becoming about his soon to be wife, Brinkley (both women being two of the most famous supermodels of the 1980s).'

- 'Uptown Girl' Wiki

'"Talk of the Town" was inspired by a fan Chrissie Hynde had encountered on the band's first tour. She explained in a BBC Songwriters' Circle special, "I had in mind this kid who used to stand outside the soundchecks on our first tour... I never spoke to him. I remember that the last time I saw him I just left him standing in the snow, I never had anything to say to him. I kind of wrote this for him, so, in the unlikely event that you're watching this, I did think about you."[3] It was also rumored that the song was written about Kinks frontman Ray Davies, whom Hynde would date and have a child with.[2] The title itself was inspired by a London nightclub of the same name.[2][3]'

'talk of the town' wiki

roxy music 'more than this'

https://youtu.be/bjvVNyBTSP8

kokomo was created for the movie 'cocktails' in which tom cruise plays a kind of super bartender

kokomo songfacts says the producer terry melcher came up with the song title

kokomo was a leader of the miami indians in indiana

'A number of places have been named for the Miami nation. However, Miami, Florida is not named for this tribe, but for the Miami River in Florida, which is in turn named after the Mayaimi people'

https://youtu.be/LTrk4X9ACtw

'He says that the band was in the back of the van, drinking and playing acoustic guitars, when he came up with the intro. Duff McKagan and Izzy Stradlin started playing along. Slash started humming a melody when Axl Rose sang, "Take me down to the Paradise City." Slash chimed in with "Where the grass is green and the girls are pretty." Rose sang the first line again, where Slash shouted out "Where the girls are fat and they've got big titties."[1] Rose finished with "Take ... me ... home!" Slash preferred his second line but the rest of the band felt differently.'

'paradise city' wiki

valerie bertinelli miscarried in 1986 the year van halen's 'dreams' was written

'What changed her was a string of crises. Last March, Valerie, two months pregnant, suffered a miscarriage. “I’m still not over that one,” she says.'

national institutes of health say air pollution is linked to miscarraiges

#nihmiscarraiges

van halen 'dreams'

'The music video to "The Boys of Summer" is a French New Wave-influenced piece directed by Jean-Baptiste Mondino. Shot in black-and-white, it shows the main character of the song at three different stages of life (as a young boy, a young adult and middle-aged), in each case reminiscing about the past relationship. This is shown during the line "A little voice inside my head said don't look back, you can never look back" at which point, each of the three people look back in turn. The young boy in the video, played by seven-year-old Josh Paul,[14] resembles a young Don Henley[citation needed]. The girl in the music video is played by Audie England.'

- the boys of summer (song) wiki

wiki says 7 year old drummer josh paul in 'the boys of summer' video grew up to play bass in 'daughtry' and suicidal tendencies

and that audie, england was voted one of people magazine's most beautiful actresses in 1998

didn't find the video on youtube or vimeo the link goes to a vh1 video uploaded by upload stars

don henley ' the boys of summer'

https://bit.ly/2EwbTYz

asia 'heat of the moment'

david lee roth says the owner of cafe wha? was his uncle

david lee roth 'california girls'

the romantics 'what i like about you'

wikipedia says 'kyrie eleison' translates from hebrew as 'lord have mercy on us'

mister mister 'kyrie'

marie fredriksson recovered from brain surgery with her love of charcoal drawing

marie fredriksson charcoal artwork and drawings

'Despite being unable to read or write, Fredriksson rediscovered her love of drawing during her illness, and began using charcoal to create artwork as another form of therapy.'

- marie fredriksson wiki

roxette: 'it must have been love'

roxette 'listen to your heart'

'In 1988, Jeff Walls and Rhett Crowe married and gave birth to a daughter, Lillian, the following year. After recording again with Don Dixon, 1989 saw the release of the band's fourth and final studio album, Flip-Flop. While the music video for "Always Saturday" saw rotation on MTV, critics noted that the album lacked some of the consistency of their previous albums due to the band's busy touring schedule.

Jeff Walls died May 29, 2019 after battling a rare pulmonary disease.[5][6]'

- guadalcanal diary (band) wiki

"We used to think 'God, we'll never make a pop record. We're artists!', but things don't always turn out as you planned and when you actually create a pop record, it's so much more of a thrill than anything else".[5]

- modern english wiki

'The song featured heavily engineered guitar playing, strongly reminiscent of bagpipes; Adamson and fellow guitarist, Watson, achieved this through the use of the MXR Pitch Transposer 129 Guitar Effect. Also contributing to the band's unique sound was their use of the e-bow, a device which allows a guitar to sound more like strings or synthesizer. '

- big country wiki

big country: 'in a big country'