“Every Breath You Take” is a song written by Sting and originally performed by The Police. It was released on their 1983 album Synchronicity . The single was one of the biggest of 1983, topping the UK charts for four weeks and the Billboard Music Charts (North America) for eight weeks. Sting won Song of […]

One of my favourite songs ever, “Billie Jean” is a 1983 hit single from Michael Jackson’s Thriller album. A number-one hit on the Billboard Hot 100, the song was also the number-one R&B single for nine weeks in the United States and is one of Jackson’s most critically acclaimed songs. It was voted best single […]

“Flashdance… What a Feeling” is an Academy Award winning song from the 1983 film Flashdance which was performed by Irene Cara.
In addition to topping the Billboard Hot 100 and earning a platinum record in 1983, “Flashdance… What a Feeling” won the Academy Award for Best Original Song and the Golden Globe Award for Best Original […]

One of my favourite Aussie songs and proud of it! Although the video is quite dated it does remind you of the 80s and vegemite sandwiches among other things…
Down Under was written by Colin Hay and Ron Strykert, recorded in 1981 by the Australian rock group Men at Work and featured on their debut album […]

“Beat It” is a hit single from Michael Jackson’s album Thriller, released in 1983 (see 1983 in music). It was the third single from the album, following “The Girl Is Mine” (a duet with Paul McCartney) and “Billie Jean”.
“Beat It” won Jackson two Grammy Awards for Record of the Year and Best Male Rock Vocal […]

“Total Eclipse of the Heart” is a power ballad written and produced by Jim Steinman. It was originally performed by Welsh singer Bonnie Tyler in 1983.
This is probably Steinman’s most successful commercial composition to date and Bonnie Tyler’s most successful song, going to number one on the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States […]

“Maneater” is a single recorded by American duo Hall & Oates from their 1982 album H2O. It reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart on December 18, 1982.
The Hall & Oates music video opens with a woman walking down a red staircase, and the band playing in a dimly lit studio with shafts of […]

Patti Austin (born August 10, 1950, in Harlem, New York), to Edna and Gordon Austin, is a Grammy-winning R&B and jazz music singer.
The album containing that hit, Every Home Should Have One, produced her biggest mainstream hit “Baby, Come To Me,” a duet with James Ingram, which initially peaked at number 73 on the Hot […]

Maniac was used in the 1983 film Flashdance and was inspired by the 1980 horror film Maniac. The film Maniac was about a serial killer who stalks his victims in New York City. The song’s performer and co-writer Michael Sembello recalls that an early version of the chorus was:
He’s a maniac, […]

“Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)” (or simply “Sweet Dreams”) is a song by pop music duo Eurythmics, written by David A. Stewart and Annie Lennox. It was released as a single and was the title track of their album Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This). It is notable as the song which provided the […]