
FEATURED SONG
Take My Breath Away by Berlin - Song #85
If this dreamy love song by new wave/electropop band Berlin sounds morose to you, that’s because lead singer Terri Nunn was feeling gloomy when she recorded it: “I had no love life at the time. There were no prospects for a relationship. I was alone, sad, and I was going through some personal crises... I was looking for meaning in my life, and I felt like a failure because I had no personal relationship. That’s where I was coming from when I recorded the song. I was singing about the yearning of finding someone who would take my breath away,” she told Deseret News in 2004.
Take My Breath Away peaked at #1 on the U.S. Billboard Top 40 in 1986, and also hit #1 in Belgium, Ireland, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom. It was a hit in Australia, Sweden, South Africa, New Zealand, Canada, France, Finland, Spain, Austria, Switzerland, Norway, and West Germany. In 2016, Terri Nunn told news.com.au, “People just have history with that song. It puts people into a zone. I get to watch them go into that zone. If I get to meet them after the show, they want to tell me their story how Take My Breath Away was the soundtrack of something that mattered to them——their first kiss, the first record they bought, their first baby——it’s in their DNA. I know what that’s like. I have songs that changed my life too. They came at a time when I needed them, and I played them over and over. I get it. It’s really cool to have a song like that. It’s an emotional experience.”
Take My Breath Away is the love theme from the highest-grossing film of 1986, Top Gun, which stars American actor Tom Cruise as a naval aviator who trains at the U.S. Navy’s Fighter Weapons School at Naval Air Station Miramar in San Diego, California. If the movie seems like military recruitment propaganda to you, that’s because it is. The producers made Top Gun with the cooperation of the U.S. Navy. The Navy got full script approval in exchange for permission to feature the Navy’s aircraft, ships, and bases in the movie. The propaganda was very effective, as evidenced by the major increase in military enlistment following the film’s release.
In the film, Take My Breath Away plays during a steamy love scene between Tom Cruise and American actress Kelly McGillis. This scene was not in the original cut of the film, but because test audiences wanted some sex, re-shoots were done, and the scene was added. In fact, the reason the actors are shown in silhouette in the sex scene is because by then, Kelly McGillis had dyed her hair for another role. (Watch the scene from the film here.) Top Gun has sustained in popularity, and is still one of Tom Cruise’s most popular and highest-grossing films. In 2013, it was re-released in IMAX 3D. In 2015, the U.S. Library of Congress added it to the National Film Registry, which features films that are “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.”
The Top Gun soundtrack, which is one of the best-selling movie soundtracks of all time, also features Danger Zone by American musician Kenny Loggins, which is song #182 on this list of THE TOP 500 POP SONGS OF THE 1980S. Two more Kenny Loggins songs (both also from movies) are on this list: I’m Alright from Caddyshack, at #434, and Footloose at #72. American rock band Toto (which has six songs on this list) was originally meant to record Danger Zone, but there was a dispute between Toto’s lawyers and the film’s producers. Canadian musician Bryan Adams (who has four songs on this list) was considered a potential candidate to perform a song for the soundtrack, but he declined because he felt that the film glorified war. The soundtrack includes Top Gun Anthem by German musician Harold Faltermeyer and American guitarist Steve Stevens, which won a Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Performance in 1987. The soundtrack also includes Canadian rock band Loverboy’s Heaven In Your Eyes, which peaked at #12 on the U.S. Billboard Top 40, but did not make this list; the only Loverboy song to make this list is Working For the Weekend at #274. The original Top Gun soundtrack also includes songs by American rock band Cheap Trick, American R&B musician Teena Marie, and American pop band Miami Sound Machine, all of whom have one song on this list: The Flame at #272, Lovergirl at #384, and Conga at #462, respectively.
Italian composer Giorgio Moroder wrote the music for Danger Zone, and then teamed up with Tom Whitlock to add lyrics, and to compose Take My Breath Away. In 2020, Giorgio Moroder told The Guardian, “My Ferrari was parked behind the studio, with brake trouble. One day a guy, Tom Whitlock, came by and said he was a mechanic and could fix it. Later he said: ‘Oh, and, by the way, I’m also a lyricist. If you ever need some words...’ I was never good at lyrics, so gave him my demos. He wrote words for Danger Zone and Take My Breath Away among others, and the imagery was perfect.” Giorgio Moroder is known as “the father of disco” for his synthesizer work in early electronic dance music, most notably with American singer Donna Summer in the ‘70s. He produced some of her most popular songs during the disco era, including 1975’s Love to Love You Baby, 1977’s I Feel Love, 1978’s Last Dance, 1978’s MacArthur Park, 1979’s Hot Stuff, and 1979’s On the Radio. On the Radio was released in 1979, but peaked at #5 on the U.S. Billboard Top 40 in 1980; it did not make this list of the TOP 500 POP SONGS OF THE 1980S, but it came close, at #541. (Donna Summer’s only song on this list is She Works Hard For the Money at #231.)
Giorgio Moroder produced the soundtrack for 1980’s American Gigolo, which features American rock band Blondie’s Call Me, song #53 on this list. He also composed film soundtracks for 1978’s Midnight Express (for which he won an Oscar for Best Original Score), 1983’s Scarface, 1984’s The NeverEnding Story, and the 1984 restoration of the 1927 film Metropolis. Giorgio Moroder stated that the work he is most proud is Take My Breath Away, for which he won an Oscar for Best Original Song in 1987. He won the same award in 1984 for Flashdance...What a Feeling by American singer Irene Cara, song #26 on this list. In 2020, he told The Guardian, “Take My Breath Away is my favorite work, because of the components and the way Terri sings it. It won best original song at the Golden Globes and my third Oscar. There’s some things you forget but this one felt incredible.” Terri Nunn refused to perform Take My Breath Away at the Academy Awards as part of a medley of the Oscar-nominated songs in 1987. She said that she would perform the song only if she could sing it in its entirety. The song won the Oscar, but wasn’t performed at the show. She says that she still regrets that decision.
In 2020, Terri Nunn told The Guardian, “We loved what Giorgio Moroder was doing and begged to work with him, but he was huge. He had worked with David Bowie, Donna Summer, Blondie, and on Flashdance. We could eventually afford him for just one song, No More Words. While we were working with him, he got the contract for Top Gun and wrote Take My Breath Away. He’d tried other singers on it but the film’s producers had turned them all down, so Giorgio suggested us. We hadn’t had big hits, but he could be very convincing and told them: ‘Oh, they’ll be huge.’” No More Words was Berlin’s first U.S. Billboard Top 40 hit, peaking at #23 in 1984.
Berlin is a new wave band that formed in 1978. Despite its name, Berlin is an American band with no connection to the capital of Germany. The name was chosen to make them seem “exotically European.” The band’s best-known lineup is singer Terri Nunn, bass guitarist and vocalist John Crawford, keyboardist David Diamond, guitarist Ric Olsen, keyboardist Matt Reid, and drummer Rod Learned. Originally called The Toys when formed in 1976, the band made some changes and added Terri Nunn in 1979, but she left the band later that year to pursue an acting career.
Terri Nunn appeared in several television shows in the ‘70s and ‘80s, including T.J. Hooker, Lou Grant, Vega$, and James at 15. She is in several movies as well, including the 1978 widely-panned disco comedy Thank God It’s Friday (which also features Donna Summer and her song Last Dance, produced by Giorgio Moroder). In 2020, Terri Nunn told The Guardian, “Before I was in Berlin, I auditioned for the part of Princes Leia in Star Wars. I was 15 but looked 12. Harrison Ford was over 30 but looked 19 or 20 [watch her audition here]. We sat in deckchairs to say our lines. George Lucas, bless him, sent me a letter thanking me and saying: ‘We chose Carrie Fisher, but we’d like to help you.’ He introduced me to Steven Spielberg and all these guys. I was offered the part of Lucy Ewing [on American TV show] Dallas, but the seven-year contract scared me because I really wanted to do music. My mother told me to go with my heart, but my agent was so annoyed with me for turning down Dallas that he dropped me. A year later, I met John Crawford, and joined Berlin.” She said that she was happy that she didn’t get these roles because then her life would not have been about music.
After Terri Nunn re-joined Berlin in 1980, Berlin had a minor hit with The Metro, from the album Pleasure Victim. The next single released from the album was the controversial Sex (I’m a...), which was a hit in the U.S. on the Billboard Dance Club and Mainstream Rock charts. Sex (I’m a...) was banned by some radio stations due to its sexually-charged lyrics, which of course, made it a cult hit.
In 1984, Berlin finally had a U.S. Billboard Top 40 hit with the first song Giorgio Moroder produced for the band, No More Words, from the album Love Life. Almost a year after peaking at #23 on the U.S. Billboard Top 40, No More Words was featured in the 1985 film Vision Quest, and was the B-side of Madonna’s huge hit single Crazy For You (song #122 on this list). The video for No More Words, which received a lot of airplay on MTV, is quite elaborate for 1984——a car chase and shoot-out in the vein of the 1967 film Bonnie and Clyde, with some interesting twists. No More Words was also a hit on the U.S. Billboard Dance Club and Mainstream Rock charts. Other noteworthy Berlin songs include 1983’s Masquerade, 1984’s Now It’s My Turn, 1987’s You Don’t Know, and 1987’s Like Flames, which were minor hits in the U.S. and other countries.
“By 1986 we’d already been together as a band 13 years and were on our third album,” Terri Nunn told The Sunday Express in 2006. “We were approached by the producer Giorgio Moroder... He said, ‘I’ve got this great ballad, it’s going to be the sound of the summer, it’s going to be huge, you have to do it.’ I was happy to go ahead, but John Crawford [Berlin’s founder, primary songwriter, and bass guitarist] hated it. He kept saying it just wasn’t our sound or the right direction for us as a band, and that if we didn’t write it, we shouldn’t record it. But our label [Columbia Records] insisted it wouldn’t hurt us, so we went ahead. The song didn’t go straight to #1. In fact, it couldn’t get any radio play at all, but for some reason, someone at Columbia just wouldn’t give up on it. They pushed it for a month and then it exploded.”
Terri Nunn viewed Take My Breath Away as an opportunity for more recognition for the band, but other bandmembers didn’t like it because it wasn’t written or composed by any of them. Berlin was already having problems, and Terri Nunn lamented, “Take My Breath Away came along and that was another reason to fight. John [Crawford] was like, ‘That’s not our song. We have our own songs.’ I said, ‘Who cares? It’s Giorgio Moroder, if he farts, I’ll sing it. I love that guy.’ We fought about that. Then we fought about the fact [that] we had to play it in concerts. John didn’t like that either. We were just fighting to fight.” Berlin disbanded in 1987. “We were just tired,” she said. “We were mad at each other because we’d seen each other for 24 hours a day for the previous six years. Looking back, all we needed was a break, but we were kids, and the record label just wants you to work so they can get their money as long as the gravy train lasts.”
Terri Nunn began a solo career in 1991, releasing the album Moment Of Truth. In 1996, she won a legal battle that gave her the rights to the name Berlin, which John Crawford had chosen for the band. She reformed the band with a new lineup, and Berlin began recording and touring in 1997. In 1999, Berlin opened for American all-female rock band The Go-Go’s on their reunion tour. (The Go-Go’s have three songs on this list of THE TOP 500 POP SONGS OF THE 1980S, and lead singer Belinda Carlisle has two solo songs.)
In 2004, as part of U.S. music channel VH1’s Bands Reunited series, Terri Nunn reunited with all of the original members of Berlin (watch it here). The band continues to record new material and tour, often with some of the original bandmembers, including John Crawford. In 2020, Berlin released their ninth album, Strings Attached, which includes re-recordings of some of the band’s previous songs, backed by a full orchestra. The new recording of Take My Breath Away features The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra and The Slovenia Symphonic Film Orchestra.
Take My Breath Away is featured in the following films: 2001’s Ocean’s 11, 2006’s Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (the song plays when the title character sees Canadian-American actress Pamela Anderson on TV for the first time), 2010’s Going the Distance, 2017’s Despicable Me 3, 2017’s Death Note, and 2019’s Corpus Christi. Take My Breath Away is referenced in the 2012 film Captain America: The First Avenger; a character says, “I can think of some folks in Berlin who are about to get very nervous,” and another character responds, “Yep, after they do Take My Breath Away from the Top Gun soundtrack, they’re pretty much through.” Some of the television shows that have featured Take My Breath Away include The King Of Queens in 2002, Dancing With the Stars in 2006, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia in 2007, Glee in 2012 (watch the scene here), and Brooklyn Nine-Nine in 2019. In 1990, the National Basketball Association included Take My Breath Away as part of a tribute to Michael Jordan in an NBA Superstars video documentary.
Before Berlin recorded Take My Breath Away, it was offered to American new wave band The Motels, who recorded a demo version, but the Top Gun producers rejected it. The Motels’ demo was released in 2001. Two songs by The Motels almost made this list of THE TOP 500 POP SONGS OF THE 1980S: Only the Lonely (#545) and Suddenly Last Summer (#649).
Take My Breath Away has been covered by many artists representing a wide variety of music genres from all over the world, including the following:
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Italian singer Cristiano Malgioglio in 1986 (click here)
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French singer/songwriter Gérard Lenorman in 1986 (click here)
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German singer Ute Berling in 1986 (click here)
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The London Symphony Orchestra in 1987 (click here)
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English instrumental rock group The Shadows in 1987 (click here)
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Taiwanese singer Tracy Huang in 1987 (click here)
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Turkish singer Neşe Karaböcek in 1987 (click here)
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Czech singer Petra Janů in 1987 (click here)
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French pianist Richard Clayderman in 1987 (click here; it’s a medley with British-Irish musician Chris de Burgh’s The Lady In Red, song #361 on this list)
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Belgian classical guitarist Francis Goya in 1988 (click here)
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Slovak pianist Peter Breiner in 1990 (click here)
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British a cappella group The Flying Pickets in 1994 (click here)
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German electronic dance music DJ Jan Wayne featuring Charlene in Dance in 2002 (click here)
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U.K. remix artists Soda Club featuring Hannah Alethea in 2002 (click here)
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American rock band Copeland in 2004 (click here)
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American singer Jessica Simpson in 2004 (click here; her version was a moderate hit in the U.S., Australia, Belgium, France, and Canada)
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American rock band My Morning Jacket in 2004 (click here)
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American singer Diana Ross in 2006 (click here)
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English musician Gordon Haskell in 2008 (click here)
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Scottish alternative rock musician Sharleen Spiteri in 2010 (click here)
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German new age band Gregorian in 2012 (click here)
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Latin pop group OV7 in 2012 (click here)
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American rock band We Are Scientists in 2013 (click here)
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British singer-songwriter Will Young in 2015 (click here)
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Dutch singer/songwriter Duncan Laurence in 2022 (click here)
In 2013, Take My Breath Away surged in popularity after being sampled in several songs, including American rapper Trick Daddy’s 2012 song They Took My Dog Away, American rapper Juvenile’s 2012 song Take My Breath, American singer Lloyd’s 2012 song Do It Again, and American rapper Brianna Perry’s 2013 song (featuring American singer/songwriter Teyana Taylor) Take My Breath Away.
Terri Nunn has remained in the spotlight for more than just music. She hosted a podcast and a radio show. In 2010, she was a guest judge on American reality competition TV show RuPaul’s Drag Race, and mentored the contestants in a singing challenge. Although her acting career didn’t take off, she said that her acting experience helped her with Take My Breath Away: “In acting, I’d learned a lot about channeling emotion. I was alone. I’d been so busy with the band, I’d not had a relationship for four years. So I sang [Take My Breath Away] from a feeling of sadness and longing, and maybe that’s what resonated. It taught me that the most important thing is to sing a song from honesty, whatever it is for me at that time... The thing that people comment on is how sad I sound because I was. I was sad.” Terri Nunn has a Master’s Degree in Applied Human Nutrition. She became a vegetarian at the age of 19, and then became vegan in 2011 after reading The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted by T. Colin Campbell.
A sequel to Top Gun was released in 2022. Before the film’s release, when asked if Take My Breath Away would be featured in Top Gun: Maverick, Terri Nunn said, “All we heard was there’s talk that they’re putting it...in the movie, like, he [Tom Cruise] goes into a bar and hears it and says, ‘Oh, I really like that song!’ Which would be very cool!” But it turns out that Take My Breath Away is not featured in the sequel. (The movie does begin with the other huge hit from the original Top Gun, Danger Zone by Kenny Loggins.) Top Gun: Maverick director Joseph Kosinski explained to CinemaBlend, “Take My Breath Away is an incredible song, but it’s really connected with that relationship (between Tom Cruise and Kelly McGillis), you know? So for Maverick...we needed something new.”
Terri Nunn told ABC News Radio in 2020, “[Take My Breath Away] was a gift in my life that just keeps on giving. I’m in awe of it because it just keeps going. People never seem to get tired of it. Some things...they take off and they have their own lives. Take My Breath Away...it’s one of those songs, you know?”

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1. Don’t Stop Believin’ — Journey
2. When Doves Cry — Prince and the Revolution
3. Livin’ On a Prayer — Bon Jovi
4. Don’t You (Forget About Me) — Simple Minds
5. Time After Time — Cyndi Lauper
6. Billie Jean — Michael Jackson
7. Pour Some Sugar On Me — Def Leppard
8. Every Breath You Take — The Police
9. I Love Rock ‘n Roll —
Joan Jett & the Blackhearts
10. Girls Just Want To Have Fun — Cyndi Lauper
11. Take On Me — A-ha
12. Like a Prayer — Madonna
13. Eye Of the Tiger — Survivor
14. Here I Go Again — Whitesnake
15. I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me) —
Whitney Houston
16. With Or Without You — U2
17. Another One Bites the Dust — Queen
18. Jessie’s Girl — Rick Springfield
19. Sweet Child O’ Mine — Guns N’ Roses
20. Total Eclipse Of the Heart — Bonnie Tyler
21. Everybody Wants To Rule the World —
Tears For Fears
22. You Shook Me All Night Long — AC/DC
23. Karma Chameleon — Culture Club
24. Jack & Diane — John Cougar
25. Another Brick In the Wall (Part II) —
Pink Floyd
26. Flashdance...What a Feeling — Irene Cara
27. Little Red Corvette — Prince
28. Like a Virgin — Madonna
29. Careless Whisper —
Wham! featuring George Michael
30. Purple Rain — Prince and the Revolution
31. Beat It — Michael Jackson
32. Born In the U.S.A. — Bruce Springsteen
33. Hungry Like the Wolf — Duran Duran
34. Africa — Toto
35. I Want To Know What Love Is — Foreigner
36. Summer of ‘69 — Bryan Adams
37. Tainted Love / Where Did Our Love Go —
Soft Cell
38. Love Is a Battlefield — Pat Benatar
39. Don’t You Want Me — The Human League
40. Kiss — Prince and the Revolution
41. Welcome To the Jungle — Guns N’ Roses
42. Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go — Wham!
43. Jump — Van Halen
44. Under Pressure — David Bowie and Queen
45. Walk This Way — Run-D.M.C.
46. Borderline — Madonna
47. Down Under — Men At Work
48. In the Air Tonight — Phil Collins
49. Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This) — Eurythmics
50. You Give Love a Bad Name — Bon Jovi
51. Faith — George Michael
52. Photograph — Def Leppard
53. Call Me — Blondie
54. Celebration — Kool & the Gang
55. Thriller — Michael Jackson
56. Faithfully — Journey
57. Bette Davis Eyes — Kim Carnes
58. Physical — Olivia Newton-John
59. Stand Back — Stevie Nicks
60. Holiday — Madonna
61. Keep On Loving You — REO Speedwagon
62. 1999 — Prince
63. Funkytown — Lipps, Inc.
64. Heaven — Bryan Adams
65. Start Me Up — The Rolling Stones
66. Let’s Go Crazy — Prince and the Revolution
67. True — Spandau Ballet
68. All Night Long (All Night) — Lionel Richie
69. I Can’t Go For That (No Can Do) —
Daryl Hall and John Oates
70. Crazy Little Thing Called Love — Queen
71. Come On Eileen — Dexy’s Midnight Runners
72. Footloose — Kenny Loggins
73. The Tide Is High — Blondie
74. Love Shack — The B-52’s
75. Walk Like an Egyptian — The Bangles
76. Dancing In the Dark — Bruce Springsteen
77. What’s Love Got To Do With It — Tina Turner
78. (I’ve Had) The Time Of My Life —
Bill Medley and Jennifer Warnes
79. Centerfold — J. Geils Band
80. Push It — Salt-N-Pepa
81. Man In the Mirror — Michael Jackson
82. Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now — Starship
83. Back In Black — AC/DC
84. Heaven Is a Place On Earth — Belinda Carlisle
85. Take My Breath Away — Berlin
86. Free Fallin’ — Tom Petty
87. Need You Tonight / Mediate — INXS
88. Super Freak — Rick James
89. These Dreams — Heart
90. Never Gonna Give You Up — Rick Astley
91. Endless Love — Diana Ross and Lionel Richie
92. Always Something There To Remind Me —
Naked Eyes
93. Let’s Dance — David Bowie
94. Fast Car — Tracy Chapman
95. Let the Music Play — Shannon
96. Every Rose Has Its Thorn — Poison
97. Do You Really Want To Hurt Me — Culture Club
98. Whip It — Devo
99. Pink Houses — John Cougar Mellencamp
100. I Just Called To Say I Love You —
Stevie Wonder
101. Hurts So Good — John Cougar
102. Kiss On My List — Daryl Hall and John Oates
103. Pride (In the Name Of Love) — U2
104. Sexual Healing — Marvin Gaye
105. Don’t Dream It’s Over — Crowded House
106. Hit Me With Your Best Shot — Pat Benatar
107. (I Just) Died In Your Arms — Cutting Crew
108. Gloria — Laura Branigan
109. Right Here Waiting — Richard Marx
110. Wanted Dead Or Alive — Bon Jovi
111. I Still Haven’t Found What I’m
Looking For — U2
112. We Are the World — USA For Africa
113. We Got the Beat — The Go-Go’s
114. Modern Love — David Bowie
115. Just Like Heaven — The Cure
116. The Boys Of Summer — Don Henley
117. Straight Up — Paula Abdul
118. Can’t Fight This Feeling — REO Speedwagon
119. Sister Christian — Night Ranger
120. Saving All My Love For You — Whitney Houston
121. Alone — Heart
122. Crazy For You — Madonna
123. We Belong — Pat Benatar
124. Bust a Move — Young MC
125. How Will I Know — Whitney Houston
126. Broken Wings — Mr. Mister
127. Paradise City — Guns N’ Roses
128. Manic Monday — The Bangles
129. Walking On Sunshine — Katrina and the Waves
130. Higher Love — Steve Winwood
131. I’m So Excited — The Pointer Sisters
132. Father Figure — George Michael
133. St. Elmo’s Fire (Man In Motion) — John Parr
134. Fool In the Rain — Led Zeppelin
135. Edge Of Seventeen — Stevie Nicks
136. Red Red Wine — UB40
137. Where the Streets Have No Name — U2
138. Greatest Love Of All — Whitney Houston
139. Rock You Like a Hurricane — Scorpions
140. Take Me Home Tonight — Eddie Money
141. Panama — Van Halen
142. West End Girls — Pet Shop Boys
143. Just the Two Of Us — Grover Washington, Jr.
144. Sunglasses At Night — Corey Hart
145. The Final Countdown — Europe
146. The Living Years — Mike + the Mechanics
147. Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic —
The Police
148. (You Gotta) Fight For Your Right (To Party!) —
Beastie Boys
149. It Takes Two — Rob Base & DJ E-Z Rock
150. Money For Nothing — Dire Straits
151. Open Arms — Journey
152. Drive — The Cars
153. I Feel For You — Chaka Khan
154. The Way It Is — Bruce Hornsby and the Range
155. Separate Ways (Worlds Apart) — Journey
156. Take It On the Run — REO Speedwagon
157. Rock Of Ages — Def Leppard
158. Material Girl — Madonna
159. Maneater — Daryl Hall and John Oates
160. Upside Down — Diana Ross
161. Brass In Pocket (I’m Special) — The Pretenders
162. Head Over Heels — Tears For Fears
163. Rock the Casbah — The Clash
164. Ride Like the Wind — Christopher Cross
165. Everything She Wants — Wham!
166. Eyes Without a Face — Billy Idol
167. Wanna Be Startin’ Somethin’ — Michael Jackson
168. So Emotional — Whitney Houston
169. Invisible Touch — Genesis
170. The Power Of Love — Huey Lewis and the News
171. The Way You Make Me Feel — Michael Jackson
172. I Ran (So Far Away) — A Flock Of Seagulls
173. 99 Luftballoons — Nena
174. Our House — Madness
175. Abracadabra — Steve Miller Band
176. Cars — Gary Numan
177. Arthur’s Theme (Best That You Can Do) —
Christopher Cross
178. That’s What Friends Are For —
Dionne and Friends
179. Hello — Lionel Richie
180. If You Leave —
Orchestral Manoeuvres In the Dark
181. All Through the Night — Cyndi Lauper
182. Danger Zone — Kenny Loggins
183. Easy Lover — Philip Bailey and Phil Collins
184. Addicted To Love — Robert Palmer
185. 9 To 5 — Dolly Parton
186. Heartbreaker — Pat Benatar
187. She Blinded Me With Science — Thomas Dolby
188. One More Try — George Michael
189. Against All Odds (Take a Look At Me Now) —
Phil Collins
190. Sledgehammer — Peter Gabriel
191. Missing You — John Waite
192. Out Of Touch — Daryl Hall and John Oates
193. Listen To Your Heart — Roxette
194. Oh Sherrie — Steve Perry
195. Rapper’s Delight — The Sugarhill Gang
196. Mickey — Toni Basil
197. Heat Of the Moment — Asia
198. 867-5309/Jenny — Tommy Tutone
199. That’s All — Genesis
200. Ghostbusters — Ray Parker Jr.
201. Say You, Say Me — Lionel Richie
202. She Drives Me Crazy — Fine Young Cannibals
203. I Can’t Wait — Nu Shooz
204. Morning Train (Nine To Five) — Sheena Easton
205. Legs — ZZ Top
206. You Make My Dreams — Daryl Hall and John Oates
207. Wild Thing — Tone Lōc
208. Shout — Tears For Fears
209. Don’t Come Around Here No More —
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
210. True Colors — Cyndi Lauper
211. Any Way You Want It — Journey
212. Raspberry Beret — Prince and the Revolution
213. Relax — Frankie Goes To Hollywood
214. Rock With You — Michael Jackson
215. Der Kommissar — After the Fire
216. Orinoco Flow (Sail Away) — Enya
217. Baby, Come To Me —
Patti Austin and James Ingram
218. Kokomo — The Beach Boys
219. We’re Not Gonna Take It — Twisted Sister
220. It’s Still Rock and Roll To Me — Billy Joel
221. Our Lips Are Sealed — The Go-Go’s
222. The Winner Takes It All — ABBA
223. P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing) — Michael Jackson
224. Caribbean Queen (No More Love On the Run) —
Billy Ocean
225. Glory Days — Bruce Springsteen
226. Twilight Zone — Golden Earring
227. Uptown Girl — Billy Joel
228. I’m On Fire — Bruce Springsteen
229. Up Where We Belong —
Joe Cocker and Jennifer Warnes
230. Burning Down the House — Talking Heads
231. She Works Hard For the Money — Donna Summer
232. Rio — Duran Duran
233. La Isla Bonita — Madonna
234. Word Up! — Cameo
235. Papa Don’t Preach — Madonna
236. Do They Know It’s Christmas? — Band Aid
237. Dude (Looks Like a Lady) — Aerosmith
238. Everybody Have Fun Tonight — Wang Chung
239. Shake It Up — The Cars
240. Waiting For a Girl Like You — Foreigner
241. Hard To Say I’m Sorry / Get Away — Chicago
242. Rock Me Amadeus — Falco
243. In Your Eyes — Peter Gabriel
244. Maniac — Michael Sembello
245. Sailing — Christopher Cross
246. My Prerogative — Bobby Brown
247. I Guess That’s Why They Call It the Blues —
Elton John
248. Lucky Star — Madonna
249. Run To You — Bryan Adams
250. Cruel Summer — Bananarama
251. Glory Of Love — Peter Cetera
252. White Wedding — Billy Idol
253. All Out Of Love — Air Supply
254. You Spin Me Round (Like a Record) —
Dead Or Alive
255. Here Comes the Rain Again — Eurythmics
256. Every Time You Go Away — Paul Young
257. Open Your Heart — Madonna
258. One Moment In Time — Whitney Houston
259. The One I Love — R.E.M.
260. Never Tear Us Apart — INXS
261. Waiting For a Star To Fall — Boy Meets Girl
262. Cult Of Personality — Living Colour
263. If I Could Turn Back Time — Cher
264. Round and Round — Ratt
265. Young Turks — Rod Stewart
266. Mony Mony — Billy Idol
267. Ebony and Ivory —
Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder
268. Back To Life (However Do You Want Me) —
Soul II Soul
269. I’m Coming Out — Diana Ross
270. A View To a Kill — Duran Duran
271. Electric Avenue — Eddy Grant
272. The Flame — Cheap Trick
273. The Rose — Bette Midler
274. Working For the Weekend — Loverboy
275. Look Away — Chicago
276. Live To Tell — Madonna
277. Kyrie — Mr. Mister
278. Nightshift — The Commodores
279. On My Own — Patti LaBelle and Michael McDonald
280. Express Yourself — Madonna
281. Dr. Feelgood — Mötley Crüe
282. I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me) —
Aretha Franklin and George Michael
283. Hold Me Now — Thompson Twins
284. Baby, I Love Your Way / Freebird Medley —
Will To Power
285. The Reflex — Duran Duran
286. Owner Of a Lonely Heart — Yes
287. Sign O’ the Times — Prince
288. Love Bites — Def Leppard
289. Goody Two Shoes — Adam Ant
290. Nasty — Janet Jackson
291. Got My Mind Set On You — George Harrison
292. Voices Carry — ‘Til Tuesday
293. Pump Up the Volume — M|A|R|R|S
294. Queen Of Hearts — Juice Newton
295. Freeway Of Love — Aretha Franklin
296. The Stroke — Billy Squier
297. Break My Stride — Matthew Wilder
298. Hey Nineteen — Steely Dan
299. The Look Of Love — ABC
300. Part-Time Lover — Stevie Wonder
301. Lovesong — The Cure
302. Who Can It Be Now? — Men At Work
303. Pump Up the Jam — Technotronic
304. Rapture — Blondie
305. Cum On Feel the Noize — Quiet Riot
306. I Won’t Back Down — Tom Petty
307. Cherish — Kool & the Gang
308. Harden My Heart — Quarterflash
309. Your Love — The Outfield
310. Private Eyes — Daryl Hall and John Oates
311. Hold On To the Nights — Richard Marx
312. Living In America — James Brown
313. Let’s Groove — Earth, Wind & Fire
314. Chariots Of Fire – Titles — Vangelis
315. Human Nature — Michael Jackson
316. When I Think of You — Janet Jackson
317. King Of Pain — The Police
318. We Didn’t Start the Fire — Billy Joel
319. Cold Hearted — Paula Abdul
320. No One Is To Blame — Howard Jones
321. U Got the Look — Prince
322. Bad — Michael Jackson
323. You Keep Me Hangin’ On — Kim Wilde
324. Do You Believe In Love —
Huey Lewis and the News
325. Too Shy — Kajagoogoo
326. Patience — Guns N’ Roses
327. Vacation — The Go-Go’s
328. Caught Up In You — .38 Special
329. Making Love Out Of Nothing At All — Air Supply
330. I Would Die 4 U — Prince and the Revolution
331. Another Day In Paradise — Phil Collins
332. Hungry Heart — Bruce Springsteen
333. The Longest Time — Billy Joel
334. Sirius / Eye In the Sky —
The Alan Parsons Project
335. Shakedown — Bob Seger
336. Talk Dirty To Me — Poison
337. Let’s Hear It For the Boy — Deniece Williams
338. We Built This City — Starship
339. Shake You Down — Gregory Abbott
340. Looking For a New Love — Jody Watley
341. Into the Night — Benny Mardones
342. The Next Time I Fall —
Peter Cetera and Amy Grant
343. Holding Back the Years — Simply Red
344. Roll With It — Steve Winwood
345. Wishing Well — Terence Trent D’Arby
346. Only In My Dreams — Debbie Gibson
347. (Just Like) Starting Over — John Lennon
348. Ain’t Nobody — Rufus featuring Chaka Khan
349. Miss You Much — Janet Jackson
350. I Can Dream About You — Dan Hartman
351. Venus — Bananarama
352. Why Can’t This Be Love? — Van Halen
353. Luka — Suzanne Vega
354. You’re the Inspiration — Chicago
355. Mr. Roboto — Styx
356. Candle In the Wind (Live 1986) — Elton John
357. Southern Cross — Crosby, Stills, & Nash
358. Tell It To My Heart — Taylor Dayne
359. Rhythm Of the Night — Debarge
360. Theme From Greatest American Hero
(Believe It or Not) — Joey Scarbury
361. The Lady In Red — Chris de Burgh
362. Lady — Kenny Rogers
363. Stuck On You — Lionel Richie
364. I’ll Be There For You — Bon Jovi
365. Wind Beneath My Wings — Bette Midler
366. Touch Of Grey — Grateful Dead
367. The Heat Is On — Glenn Frey
368. Truly — Lionel Richie
369. Lost In Love — Air Supply
370. Angel Of the Morning — Juice Newton
371. I Need Love — LL Cool J
372. Nothin’ But a Good Time — Poison
373. Islands In the Stream —
Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton
374. I Keep Forgettin’ (Every Time You’re Near) —
Michael McDonald
375. Let My Love Open the Door — Pete Townshend
376. I Want a New Drug — Huey Lewis and the News
377. You Are — Lionel Richie
378. Smooth Operator — Sade
379. Don’t Stand So Close To Me — The Police
380. Never — Heart
381. Give It To Me Baby — Rick James
382. Small Town — John Cougar Mellencamp
383. Sussudio — Phil Collins
384. Lovergirl — Teena Marie
385. Secret Lovers — Atlantic Starr
386. What You Need — INXS
387. La Bamba — Los Lobos
388. Rosanna — Toto
389. Stand — R.E.M.
390. The Glamorous Life — Sheila E.
391. I’ve Never Been To Me — Charlene
392. Girl You Know It’s True — Milli Vanilli
393. Would I Lie To You? — Eurythmics
394. Don’t Worry, Be Happy — Bobby McFerrin
395. Love In an Elevator — Aerosmith
396. Sad Songs (Say So Much) — Elton John
397. Slow Hand — The Pointer Sisters
398. Keep Your Hands To Yourself —
The Georgia Satellites
399. Beds Are Burning — Midnight Oil
400. Somebody’s Baby — Jackson Browne
401. Better Be Good To Me — Tina Turner
402. Somebody’s Watching Me — Rockwell
403. What Have You Done For Me Lately —
Janet Jackson
404. Human — The Human League
405. Bad Medicine — Bon Jovi
406. Eternal Flame — The Bangles
407. Stuck With You — Huey Lewis and the News
408. Little Jeannie — Elton John
409. Smooth Criminal — Michael Jackson
410. Save a Prayer — Duran Duran
411. You Can Call Me Al — Paul Simon
412. Angel — Aerosmith
413. Rock This Town — The Stray Cats
414. Dirty Laundry — Don Henley
415. Jump (For My Love) — The Pointer Sisters
416. Desire — U2
417. I’m Still Standing — Elton John
418. Brilliant Disguise — Bruce Springsteen
419. The Promise — When In Rome
420. The Safety Dance — Men Without Hats
421. Back On the Chain Gang — The Pretenders
422. Sowing the Seeds Of Love — Tears For Fears
423. Come Dancing — The Kinks
424. You Might Think — The Cars
425. One Thing Leads To Another — The Fixx
426. Conga — Miami Sound Machine
427. The Sweetest Taboo — Sade
428. Mad About You — Belinda Carlisle
429. Gypsy — Fleetwood Mac
430. I Know There’s Something Going On — Frida
431. Jeopardy — The Greg Kihn Band
432. Life In a Northern Town — The Dream Academy
433. Time (Clock Of the Heart) — Culture Club
434. I’m Alright — Kenny Loggins
435. You Got It (The Right Stuff) —
New Kids On the Block
436. Against the Wind —
Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band
437. Late In the Evening — Paul Simon
438. Dirty Diana — Michael Jackson
439. Let It Whip — The Dazz Band
440. Don’t Get Me Wrong — The Pretenders
441. Buffalo Stance — Neneh Cherry
442. At This Moment — Bill Vera & the Beaters
443. I Think We’re Alone Now — Tiffany
444. Sara — Fleetwood Mac
445. You Got It — Roy Orbison
446. New Attitude — Patti LaBelle
447. Dance Hall Days — Wang Chung
448. Private Dancer — Tina Turner
449. Burnin’ For You – Blue Öyster Cult
450. Always On My Mind — Willie Nelson
451. Hard Habit To Break — Chicago
452. Lean On Me — Club Nouveau
453. Cherish — Madonna
454. Something About You — Level 42
455. Steppin’ Out — Joe Jackson
456. One Night In Bangkok — Murray Head
457. C’est La Vie — Robbie Nevil
458. What Have I Done To Deserve This? —
Pet Shop Boys with Dusty Springfield
459. Every Little Step — Bobby Brown
460. Sweet Love — Anita Baker
461. America — Neil Diamond
462. True Faith — New Order
463. Magic — Olivia Newton-John
464. People Are People — Depeche Mode
465. It’s My Life — Talk Talk
466. Jungle Love — The Time
467. Puttin’ On the Ritz — Taco
468. Hungry Eyes – Eric Carmen
469. Fame — Irene Cara
470. You Dropped a Bomb On Me — The Gap Band
471. Union Of the Snake — Duran Duran
472. Don’t Talk To Strangers — Rick Springfield
473. Kids In America — Kim Wilde
474. Send Me an Angel — Real Life
475. Obsession — Animotion
476. What I Am — Edie Brickell & New Bohemians
477. Genius Of Love — Tom Tom Club
478. Say Say Say —
Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson
479. Chains Of Love — Erasure
480. You Better, You Bet — The Who
481. Head To Toe — Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam
482. One — Metallica
483. Dress You Up — Madonna
484. Straight From the Heart — Bryan Adams
485. Little Lies — Fleetwood Mac
486. Automatic — The Pointer Sisters
487. Watching the Wheels — John Lennon
488. Me Myself and I — De La Soul
489. I Can’t Tell You Why — Eagles
490. Being With You — Smokey Robinson
491. Songbird — Kenny G
492. Freeze-Frame — J. Geils Band
493. How ‘Bout Us — Champaign
494. I.G.Y (What a Beautiful World) — Donald Fagen
495. Self Control — Laura Branigan
496. Blame It On the Rain — Milli Vanilli
497. She Bop — Cyndi Lauper
498. Hysteria – Def Leppard
499. Running Up That Hill — Kate Bush
500. Pass the Dutchie — Musical Youth
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