We just sit around talking about the old times,
She says when she feels like crying
She starts laughing thinking about
Glory days
Glory Days by Bruce Springsteen was released on May 31, 1985, with Stand on It as the B side. It was the fifth single from the Born in the U.S.A. album.
Glory Days reached No. 5 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. It was the fifth of seven Top 10 singles from Born in the U.S.A.
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Goddess on the mountain top
Burning like a silver flame
The summit of beauty and love
And Venus was her name
Venus by Bananarama was released on May 30, 1986, with White Train as the B side. A remake of the 1969 song by Shocking Blue, Venus was a single from the band’s third album, True Confessions.
Venus was a worldwide hit for Bananarama. It was a No. 1 hit in the United States, Australia, and a handful of other countries. In the United Kingdom, it reached No. 8 on the UK Singles Chart.
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And the last known survivor
Stalks his prey in the night
And he’s watching us all with the
Eye of the tiger
Eye of the Tiger by Survivor was released on May 29, 1982, with Take You on a Saturday as the B side. It was a single from Survivor’s third album of the same name. It also appeared on the Rocky III soundtrack.
Eye of the Tiger was an international success, topping charts worldwide. In the United States, it held the No. 1 spot on the Billboard Hot 100 chart for six consecutive weeks.
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She’ll never sell out
She never will
Not for a dollar bill
She works hard
She Works Hard for the Money by Donna Summer was released on May 27, 1983, with I Do Believe (I Fell in Love) as the B side. It was the first single from the album of the same name.
The song reached No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and No. 1 on the Billboard Hot Black Singles chart.
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Since you’ve gone I’ve been lost without a trace
I dream at night, I can only see your face
Every Breath You Take by The Police was released on May 20, 1983, with Murder by Numbers as the B side. It was the first single from the album Synchronicity.
Every Breath You Take was the biggest hit of 1983. It topped the Billboard Hot 100 chart for eight weeks and the UK Singles chart for four weeks.
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She’s got something you just can’t trust
It’s something mysterious
And now it seems I’m falling, falling for her
Invisible Touch by Genesis was released May 19, 1986, with The Last Domino as the B side. It was the first single from the album of the same name.
Invisible Touch was the band’s first and only No. 1 single in the United States. It only reached No. 15 in the United Kingdom.
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‘Til now I always got by on my own
I never really cared until I met you
Alone by Heart was released on May 16, 1987. It was the first single from the album Bad Animals.
The power ballad was a No. 1 hit in the United States and Canada. It reached No. 3 on the UK Singles chart.
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You’re the perfect one
For me and you forever will be
And I will love you so for always
Always by Atlantic Starr was released on May 13, 1987. It was the second single from the album All in the Name of Love.
The song reached No. l on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and No. 3 on the UK Singles Chart.
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Some strange man is on the telephone
He keeps telling me my baby ain’t home
In the age of smartphone technology, kids today will never experience the true satisfaction of a phone’s click as it slams down into its cradle. New Edition’s Mr. Telephone Man brings us back to a day when your phone weighed as much as the nightstand it was sitting on. Before New Kids on the Block captured the hearts of teenage girls everywhere, Ralph, Ronnie, Bobby, Ricky, and Mike were the boy band that would inspire all future boy bands.
In Mr. Telephone Man, New Edition, which would later spawn Bobby Brown’s solo career and Bell Biv Devoe, laments about what must be a faulty telephone line, “because when I dial my baby’s number, I get a click every time.” So young, so naive. We just wanted to scoop them up and hug them and promise to answer every single one of their calls. Continue reading
Cyndi Lauper‘s She’s So Unusual was one of my very first albums, and the Fun Tour that supported it was my first concert. Cyndi’s first major headlining tour lasted from November 1983 through December 1984, covering North America and three stops in Europe. 
I saw the September 6, 1984 show at the Mann Center for the Performing Arts in Philadelphia. Philly natives The Hooters opened for Cyndi. Because I had actually seen her in concert, I was elected president of my town’s unofficial chapter of the Cyndi Lauper Fan Club, which consisted of me and about four of my friends. I took my duties very seriously at the time (there was a handwritten newsletter and lots of Cyndi buttons pinned on denim), and I still remember that tour living up to its name – just a really fun time with lots and lots of energy. Continue reading
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