Execs Told Icon-Song Has NO HOOK…He Said-The ENTIRE SONG is a HOOK…Then He Hit #1!-Professor of Rock
14,173So a few weeks ago, I told you we had our final top 10 songs of the 80s, but I was wrong… We have one more I overlooked, and arguably its best year: 1983. That’s right, we’ve got the top 10 songs of 1983, including Prince's Little Red Corvette which was written during a nap. It would become one of the dirtiest songs of the time, even though some people still think it’s about a car. Then there’s the song All Night Long, which Lionel Richie interrupted a doctor's appointment with his wife’s gynecologist to nail down. Then there was the catchy song that came to a failing duo, The Eurythmics, who knew it would be a smash until they showed it to their record label said the song lacked any hooks… The bewildered songwriter said the whole song is a hook, and he was right. Then there’s my A Flock of Seagulls pick, which I’ll tell you right now will be a source of controversy with all the great songs that dropped in 1983… It only went to #30 and the band is mistakenly called a 1 hit wonder, but it’s the most exhilarating song of the year, and if you really listen to it… I know you’ll agree. It’s the top 10 of 1983… You’re gonna love it… I just know it.
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1983 was a year full of military invasions, the elevation of the Cold War, and the year when the roots of a strange connection of computer networks called the Internet were planted. On the music front, it was a grand time where some of the biggest blockbuster albums were released, such as Michael Jackson’s Thriller, Lionel Richie’s Can’t Slow Down, David Bowie’s Let’s Dance, and Synchronicity, the final studio album by The Police. Let’s get our countdown of the Top 10 Songs of 1983 started with a track from that incredible swan song:
At #10, it’s a song that many have walked down the aisle to, even though it’s a sinister song about control, obsession, and human surveillance, or was it about love? Let’s get into it. I’ve got “Every Breath You Take” by the Police: Looking to get away from the chaos and the spotlight, Sting escaped to the Caribbean. He found himself at the legendary Goldeneye estate in Oracabessa, Jamaica—once the home of James Bond creator Ian Fleming. There, sitting at Fleming’s old writing desk, Sting began sketching out what would become one of his most famous songs. But his surroundings were far more peaceful than his personal life. The Police were in constant conflict, fighting over artistic direction. And Sting himself was in the middle of emotional turmoil—he had just split from his wife, Frances, and had fallen in love with her close friend, Trudie Styler.
The tension in his life was heavy—and it found its way into the music.Here’s Sting to set up the scene, and answer the question of every breath you take, lovesong or stalker anthem?
“Every Breath You Take” won two Grammy Awards- Song of the Year, Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals, and was nominated for Record of the Year. It finished as the
At #9, the king of smooth, Mr. Lionel Richie, dropped a groove so infectious, so jubilant, so irresistible… that it united the entire planet in one big, feel-good dance party. Well, my friends, I’m talkin’ about Lionel’s “All Nite Long:” Lionel Richie wasn’t new to making hits—by ‘83, he was already a chart-topping hit machine.