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Survivor had two flop albums and feared getting dropped. Then Queen refused to let Sylvester Stallone use "Another One Bites the Dust" in Rocky III. He called Survivor. Frankie Sullivan was so broke he played a guitar he'd glued together. "Eye of the Tiger": 6 weeks at #1. 🐯

Rest in peace, Donnie Iris (1943–2026) 🖤 Pittsburgh's "King Cool" gave the 80s "Ah! Leah!" and "Love Is Like a Rock," and he kept singing to the very end, playing his final show just last month. What's your favorite Donnie Iris song?

Today is October 27, 1984. Stevie Wonder's "I Just Called to Say I Love You" is #1. Purple Rain is the #1 album in America. MTV is three years old. Halloween is four days away. No cell phone. If you want a song, you wait for the radio to play it. How old were you?

#OnThisDay in 1985, Whitney Houston got her first #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 with "Saving All My Love for You." Plot twist: it was a cover! Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis Jr. recorded it first, in 1978. It also won Whitney her first Grammy. 💜

Happy Monday 😴 Prince wrote "Manic Monday" under the name "Christopher," first for Apollonia 6. The Bangles took it to #2. What kept it from #1? Prince's own "Kiss." Hear it on Wave 80 📻 wave80hits.com

"Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go" came from a note Andrew Ridgeley left for his parents. He accidentally wrote "up" twice, so he wrote "go" twice on purpose. George Michael turned it into Wham!'s first #1. ⏰ Hear it on Wave 80 📻 wave80hits.com

Finish the lyric 🍸 "You were working as a waitress in a..." Bonus points if you can name the band 👇

Jon Bon Jovi didn't like the first recording of "Livin' on a Prayer." Richie Sambora talked him into keeping it. They reworked it with a new bassline and Sambora's talk box, and it spent 4 weeks at #1. 🙏

#OnThisDay in 1987, Michael Jackson's "Bad" hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100. It was planned as a duet with Prince, who said no. His reason? The first line is "Your butt is mine," and he wondered who was singing that to who. 😂

This or that: Walkman or boombox? 📼 Tell us which one went everywhere with you 👇

Simple Minds turned down "Don't You (Forget About Me)." So did Bryan Ferry and Billy Idol, and the label even pitched Montreal's own Corey Hart. Simple Minds finally said yes, and it went to #1. 🎒 Hear it on Wave 80 📻 wave80hits.com

11 years of free, commercial-free 80s on Wave 80! 🎉 So settle this for us: which year had the best hits? 1983, 1984, 1985 or 1987? Reply with your pick 👇 #80sMusic

#OnThisDay in 1988, Phil Collins hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 with "A Groovy Kind of Love" from his film Buster. The melody? Borrowed from a Clementi sonatina published in 1797! 🎹 Hear it on Wave 80 📻 wave80hits.com

Finish the lyric 🌍 "I bless the rains down in..." 👇

Happy Back to the Future Day! 🛹 Oct 21, 2015 is where Marty lands in Part II. Fun fact: in the first film, the judge who tells Marty's band they're "just too darn loud" while they play "The Power of Love"? That's Huey Lewis himself.

What's the best concert you saw in the 80s? 🎸 Artist, city, year. Go! 👇

Sting started writing "Every Breath You Take" at Ian Fleming's writing desk in Jamaica, woke up with the line in his head and finished it in half an hour. Romantic? Sting calls it "sinister." 🕵️ Hear it on Wave 80 📻 wave80hits.com

Movie night, 80s style 🎬 Which #1 movie song wins: Footloose, Ghostbusters, The Power of Love or Eye of the Tiger? Reply with your pick 👇

#OnThisDay in 1985, a-ha's "Take On Me" hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100. ✏️ That pencil-sketch video? Roughly 3,000 rotoscoped frames and 16 weeks of work. Worth every frame. Hear it on Wave 80 📻 wave80hits.com

Tears for Fears' "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" was a last-minute addition to Songs from the Big Chair. That afterthought went all the way to #1 on the Billboard Hot 100. 👑 Hear it on Wave 80 📻 wave80hits.com