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The progressive rock of Rush's "Show Don't Tell", the final song to top the chart in the 1980s, had evolved into the post-grunge sound of Creed's "Higher" by the end of the 1990s. Despite the evolution, Van Halen still managed to top the chart more than any other artist during the 1990s with eight number-one songs.
When introduced by Billboard in March 1981, the Mainstream Rock chart was entitled Top Tracks and designed to measure the airplay of songs being played on album-oriented rock radio stations. The chart has undergone several name changes over the years, first to Top Rock Tracks in September 1984 and then to Album Rock Tracks in April 1986.
"Hit a truck doing 70 in the wrong lane in the big league". "B.J. the D.J." Stonewall Jackson: 1964: Title protagonist – a hard-living, sleep-deprived disc jockey – dies when his car crashes off the road. "Black Denim Trousers and Motorcycle Boots" The Cheers: 1955: A motorcyclist vanishes after getting hit by a train. "Black Ice"
Relaunched on August 1, 1999 as VH1 Classic Rock, the channel primarily featured a mainstream rock/adult hits-formatted mix of music videos and concert footage from the 1960s to the 1980s, though it originally included a wider range of genres and time periods. [6] The channel name was quickly changed to VH1 Classic in 2000.
Olivia Newton-John's song "Physical" was the Billboard Hot 100's longest running number one of the decade.. Reflecting on changes in the music industry during the 1980s, Robert Christgau later wrote in Christgau's Record Guide: The '80s (1990):
Christy Turlington appeared in the music video for Duran Duran's "Notorious" in 1986. Four years later, she became one of the supermodels in George Michael's "Freedom! '90" music video. Cindy Crawford appeared in the music video for George Michael's "Freedom! '90" and featured in the video for Jon Bon Jovi's "Please Come Home For Christmas".
The 80s Popped – Pop music from the 80s. The 80s Rocked – Rock music from the 80s. The 80s Years – A selection of music videos from one particular year of the 80s. Hits the 80's Forgot; Nothing but the 80s – Marathon of 80s music videos. We Are the 80s (early name – So 80s) – Music from the eighties.
Classic rock is a radio format that developed from the album-oriented rock (AOR) format in the early 1980s. [2] In the United States, it comprises rock music ranging generally from the mid-1960s through the mid-1990s, [3] [a] primarily focusing on commercially successful blues rock and hard rock popularized in the 1970s AOR format. [2]