Michael McDonald – I Keep Forgettin’ (Every Time You’re Near) Joan Jett and the Blackhearts – Crimson and Clover
Melissa Manchester – You Should Hear How She Talks About Youĭaryl Hall and John Oates – Did It in a MinuteĪ Flock of Seagulls – I Ran (So Far Away) The Alan Parsons Project – Eye in the Sky Joan Jett & the Blackhearts – I Love Rock ‘n’ Roll Huey Lewis & the News – Do You Believe in Love?ĭonna Summer – Love Is in Control (Finger on the Trigger) Michael Jackson and Paul McCartney – The Girl is Mineĭeniece Williams – Love’s Been a Little Bit Hard on Me Joe Cocker and Jennifer Warnes – Up Where We BelongĬrosby Stills and Nash – Wasted on the Way Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder – Ebony and Ivory The future looked like Prince and Michael Jackson forcing MTV to play their genius music without Beatle Paul as go-between. The future was high heels sinking into desert sand dunes, frantic closeups of eyes bugging through hair spray, wind machines, and the ever-present DX-7. Something had changed when MTV’s first world premiere wasn’t of a Soft Cell track that had caused a sensation in England and Europe and for a while became the longest charting single in Hot 100 history - it was Miller contemporaries Fleetwood Mac’s “Hold Me.” Acts like Bertie Higgins, America, and the Little River Band still exposed chest hair, but their time had come. The Texan’s third and last #1, “Abracadabra” matters as much as The Human League’s “Don’t You Want Me” because the thirtysomething dude and his keyboard, bowing to the inevitability of the youth market and MTV, accepted the irrelevance of his generation, yet unlike Graham Nash or whoever, Miller kept his complexity: he rhymed “Abracadabra” and “I wanna reach out and grab ya.” Yes, everyone remembers where they were when Steve Miller’s “Abracadabra” triumphed. The eighties began when an obnoxious fellow pledged his troth to a woman using a synthesizer and a goofy accent.
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