80s MASSIVE HITS

Gimme Hope Jo'anna is a British anti-apartheid song written and originally released by Eddy Grant in 1988, during the apartheid era in South Africa. The song was banned by the South African government when it was released, but was widely played there nonetheless. It reached number seven on the UK Singles Chart, becoming Grant's first British top 10 hit for five years.   Lyrics Well Jo'anna she runs a country She runs in Durban and the Transvaal She makes a few of her people happy oh She don't care about the rest at all She's got a system they call apartheid It keeps a brother in subjection But maybe pressure will make Jo'anna see How everybody could live as one Gimme hope Jo'anna Hope Jo'anna Gimme hope Jo'anna 'Fore the morning come Gimme hope Jo'anna Hope Jo'anna Hope before the morning come I hear she make all the golden money To buy new weapons any shape of guns While every mother in black Soweto fears The killing of another son Snea...

Hands to Heaven  is a  ballad  by English new wave band  Breathe , released as their fifth UK single on 20 October 1987, and in January 1988 as the band's second single in the US. The song was written by group members David Glasper and Marcus Lillington. The B-side features an instrumental track "Life and Times". Hands to Heaven" was Breathe's breakthrough hit internationally. The single peaked at No. 4 on the UK Singles Chart in August 1988. That same month in the United States, it logged two weeks at No. 2 on the  Billboard  Hot 100. The song also reached No. 2 on the  Billboard  Adult Contemporary chart. "Hands to Heaven" became a top 10 hit in Canada, Ireland, New Zealand and Norway. OFFICIAL VIDEO. Lyrics As I watch you move, across the moonlit room There's so much tenderness in your loving Tomorrow I must leave, the dawn knows no reprieve God give me strength when I am leaving... So raise your hands to heaven and pray That we'll be bac...

Suburbia " is a song by English  synthpop  duo  Pet Shop Boys . It was remixed and released as the fourth single from the duo's debut studio album,  Please  (1986), and became the band's second UK top-10 entry, peaking at number 8 The Boys have described this song as an "epic of mad dogs and hooligans" that was inspired by a film of the same name by Penelope Spheeris about aimless, disillusioned young toughs running rampant in the suburbs of Los Angeles. Very much the urbanites, Tennant and Lowe use this track as an opportunity to express what they consider to be "the full horror" (as the subtitle of one of the remixes puts it) of suburban life, where nastiness and evil lurks just beneath a superficially attractive surface. The dogs mentioned in the lyrics and whose barking frames the track probably symbolize the underlying beastialism of humanity. (One site visitor has pointed out that wild dogs inhabiting the L.A. suburbs play a significant role in th...

The Heat Is On  a song written by  Harold Faltermeyer  and  Keith Forsey , and recorded by  Glenn Frey  for the American film  Beverly Hills Cop  (1984). The song was published as a single and as the sixth track of the album  Beverly Hills Cop: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack  (1984). The heat is on, on the street Inside your head, on every beat And the beat's so loud, deep inside The pressure's high, just to stay alive 'Cause the heat is on Oh-wo-ho, oh-wo-ho Caught up in the action I've been looking out for you Oh-wo-ho, oh-wo-ho (Tell me can you feel it) (Tell me can you feel it) (Tell me can you feel it) The heat is on, the heat is on, the heat is on Oh it's on the street, the heat is on Oh-wo-ho, oh-wo-ho Caught up in the action I've been looking out for you Oh-wo-ho, oh-wo-ho (Tell me can you feel it) (Tell me can you feel it) (Tell me can you feel it) The heat is on (yeah) the heat is on, the heat is on (Burning, burning, burn...

Beds Are Burning  is a 1987 song by the Australian rock band  Midnight Oil , the first track from their album  Diesel and Dust . This song was released as the second single from the album. It reached No. 1 in  New Zealand ,  South Africa  and  Canada , No. 3 in the  Netherlands , No. 5 in  France , No. 6 in the  United Kingdom ,  Australia  and  Ireland , No. 17 in the  United States  and  Sweden . LYRICS  Out where the river broke The bloodwood and the desert oak Holden wrecks and boiling diesels Steam in forty five degrees The time has come To say fair's fair To pay the rent To pay our share The time has come A fact's a fact It belongs to them Let's give it back How can we dance When our earth is turning How do we sleep While our beds are burning How can we dance When our earth is turning How do we sleep While our beds are burning The time has come To say fair's fair To pay the rent Now to pay our sha...

"I'm asked whether the beeps at the beginning of the song actually mean anything, well... yes - they do! But what do they mean? The beeps are spelling out Ship To Shore in Morse Code. It's a good point to have raised, I think - because I could have put on any old Morse Code - but I was convinced that someone, somewhere was going to listen to it and pick me up on it. I was right!" LYRICS  Ship to shore, do you read me anymore, This line is bad, and fading, Ship to shore, answer my call, Send me a signal, a beacon to bring me home; I have been to see the world, tasted life at every turn, And all the time, Your face came back to haunt me; Day by day the feeling grew, I know I'm still in love with you, The further that I go, The more I know it, I wanna show it, Ship to shore, do you read me anymore, This line is bad, and fading, Ship to shore, answer my call, Send me a signal, a beacon to bring me home; Moving fast, all systems go, You and I had time to grow, Before t...

" Lip Up Fatty " is a  single  released by British  2 Tone  and  ska  band  Bad Manners  in June 1980, which reached No. 15  in the  UK Singles Chart . It is one of a number of  songs  by Bad Manners about 'being fat', (a reference to the round figure of  frontman ,  Buster Bloodvessel ). According to Bloodvessel "Lip Up Fatty" was an expression used at his school "to tell people to shut up". Its signature melodic lines were a simple but careful blend of brass instruments and lead harmonica theme, played by Alan Sayag (Winston Bazoomies). LYRICS  Lip up fatty, ah lip up fatty, for the reggae Lip up fatty, ah lip up fatty, for the reggae Listen to the music, shuffle up your feet Listen to the music of the fatty beat Lip up fatty, ah lip up fatty, for the reggae Lip up fatty, ah lip up fatty, for the reggae Moving with the rhythm, sweating with the heat Moving with the rhythm of the fatty beat Lip up fatty, ah lip...