These are the videos for songs that made the Billboard Hot 100 for 1985. You'll see Whitney Houston when she was just a baby crackhead, Paul McCartney continuing to make people wonder whether the wrong Beatle got whacked, Sheena Easton working on her new career as a whore, Prince becoming pretentious, and Tina Turner kicking everybody to the curb. Also: way, way too much Wham.
Wham - "Careless Whisper"
Madonna - "Like a Virgin"
Wham - "Wake Me Up"
Foreigner - "I Want to Know What Love Is"
Chaka Khan - "I Feel for You"
Hall & Oates - "Out of Touch"
Tears for Fears - "Everybody Wants to Rule the World"
Dire Straits - "Money for Nothing"
Madonna - "Crazy for You"
A-Ha - "Take on Me"
Paul Young - "Everytime You Go Away"
Philip Bailey & Phil Collins - "Easy Lover"
REO Speedwagon - "Can't Fight This Feeling"
Starship - "We Built This City"
Huey Lewis & the News - "Power of Love"
Simple Minds - "Don't You Forget about Me"
Kool & the Gang - "Cherish"
John Parr - "St. Elmo's Fire"
Glenn Frey - "The Heat Is On"
USA for Africa - "We Are the World"
Tears for Fears - "Shout"
Stevie Wonder - "Part-Time Lover"
Whitney Houston - "Saving All My Love"
Bryan Adams - "Heaven"
George Michael - "Everything She Wants"
New Edition - "Cool It Now"
Jan Hammer - "Theme from Miami Vice"
Billy Ocean - "Loverboy"
Teena Marie - "Lovergirl"
Glenn Frey - "You Belong to the City"
Ready for the World - "Oh Sheila"
Debarge - "Rhythm of the Night"
Phil Collins - "One More Night"
Honeydrippers - "Sea of Love"
Duran Duran - "View to a Kill"
Duran Duran - "Wild Boys"
Chicago - "You're the Inspiration"
Pointer Sisters - "Neutron Dance"
Pat Benatar - "We Belong"
Commodores - "Nightshift"
Howard Jones - "Things Can Only Get Better"
Aretha Franklin - "Freeway of Love"
Corey Hart - "Never Surrender"
Phil Collins - "Sussudio"
Sheena Easton - "Strut"
Whitney Houston - "You Give Good Love"
Diana Ross - "Missing You"
Prince - "Raspberry Beret"
Billy Ocean - "Suddenly"
Don Henley - "Boys of Summer"
Murray Head - "One Night in Bangkok"
Sting - "If You Love Somebody"
Animotion - "Obsession"
Tina Turner - "We Don't Need Another Hero"
Madonna - "Material Girl"
Tina Turner - "Better Be Good to Me"
Tears for Fears - "Head over Heels"
Harold Faltermeyer - "Axel F"
Sade - "Smooth Operator"
Mary Jane Girls - "In My House"
Phil Collins - "Don't Lose My Number"
Cyndi Lauper - "All Through the Night"
Bryan Adams - "Run to You"
Bruce Springsteen - "Glory Days"
Til Tuesday - "Voices Carry"
Eurythmics - "Would I Lie to You"
ABC - "Be Near Me"
Paul McCartney - "No More Lonely Nights"
Survivor - "I Can't Hold Back"
Bryan Adams - "Summer of '69"
Katrina & the Waves - "Walking on Sunshine"
Wham - "Freedom"
Julian Lennon - "Too Late for Goodbyes"
Julian Lennon - "Valotte"
Power Station - "Some Like It Hot"
Ashford & Simpson - "Solid"
Madonna - "Angel"
Bruce Springsteen - "I'm on Fire"
Hall & Oates - "Method of Modern Love"
Thompson Twins - "Lay Your Hands"
John Mellencamp - "Lonely Ol' Night"
Heart - "What about Love"
David Lee Roth - "California Girls"
Kool & the Gang - "Fresh"
The Time - "Jungle Love"
Bruce Springsteen - "Born in the USA"
Tina Turner - "Private Dancer"
Aretha Franklin - "Who's Zoomin' Who"
Sting - "Fortress around Your Heart"
Lionel Richie - "Penny Lover"
Don Henley - "All She Wants to Do Is Dance"
Madonna - "Dress You Up"
Night Ranger - "Sentimental Street"
Sheena Easton - "Sugar Walls"
Also that year:
A-ha - "Hunting High And Low"
Lone Justice - "Ways To Be Wicked"
Lone Justice - "Sweet Sweet Baby (I'm Falling)"
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers - "Don't Come around Here No More"
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See also:
Videos: Billboard 1988
Videos: Billboard 1987
Videos: Billboard 1986
Videos: Billboard 1984
Videos: Billboard 1983
Videos: Billboard 1982
Videos: Billboard 1981
Videos: Billboard 1980
Ah the 80s...what an awful decade for music.
Posted by: greg at June 19, 2006 01:00 PMWhich was the good decade again?
Posted by: Donnah at June 20, 2006 09:03 PM