Don’t you know she’s coming home with me?
You’ll lose her in the turn
I’ll get her!
Panama by Van Halen was released on June 18, 1984. The U.S. release featured Drop Dead Legs as the B side, while the U.K. release featured Girl Gone Bad. Panama was the third single from the album 1984.
Panama reached No. 13 on the Billboard Hot 100 and No. 64 on the UK Singles Chart.
Watch the music video for the song.
Oh and when you held my hand
I knew that it was now or never
Those were the best days of my life
Summer of ’69 by Bryan Adams was released on June 17, 1985, with The Best Was Yet To Come as the B side. It was the fourth single from the album Reckless.
The song reached No. 5 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and No. 11 in Adams’ native Canada. It peaked at No. 42 on the UK Singles Chart.
Watch the music video for the song.
Remember how we used to talk
About busting out, we’d break their hearts
Together, forever
Never Say Goodbye by Bon Jovi was released June 15, 1987, with a live version of Shot Through the Heart as the B side. The song was a track off of the band’s album Slippery When Wet.
The song was never released as a single in the United States and, therefore, was ineligible for the Billboard Hot 100. It reached No. 21 on the UK Singles Chart.
Watch the music video for the song.
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.
Watch the official music video for the song.
I have climbed the highest mountains
I have run through the fields
Only to be with you
I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For by U2 
was released on May 25, 1987. It was the second single released from the album The Joshua Tree.
The song was U2’s second consecutive No. 1 single on the Billboard Hot 100. It peaked at No. 6 on the UK Singles Chart.
Watch the official live video of the song.
And in the end on dreams we will depend
Cause that’s what love is made of
Dreams 
by Van Halen was released May 24, 1986, with Inside as the B side. It was the second single from the album 5150, Van Halen’s first album with new lead singer Sammy Hagar.
Dreams only reached No. 22 on the Billboard Hot 100. The first single from the album, Why Can’t This Be Love, had peaked at No. 3.
Watch the music video for the song, which featured the Blue Angels performing aerial stunts.
Contact is all it takes
To change your life to lose your place in time
Cover of Van Halen’s 5150
As much as I loved Van Halen with David Lee Roth (1984 was an epic album as far as I was concerned), I made the transition to a Sammy Hagar-fronted Van Halen pretty smoothly. 5150 was one of my favorite albums in 1986, and I still have the copy of the record I purchased that year – impressive considering I traded most of my records, except for a select handful, for CDs in the 90s.
Love Walks In, one of five singles from 5150, was one of my favorites off the album. I would listen to it over and over and over again. I was 13 at the time, so even though the lyrics were a little odd (aliens pulling strings and travels across the Milky Way), I read it all as a tale of first love throwing your world upside down. And at 13, that was right up my alley. The song was a moderate success for Van Halen, reaching No. 22 on the Billboard Hot 100. Continue reading
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