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Can't help but notice the VMAs are trending tonight on Twitter. I could be the typical 40 something and make the usual comment about how MTV doesn't even play videos anymore. But that'd make me sound as old... as I am quite frankly.
Instead, let's jump in the DeLorean and go back to the 80s and watch Hall & Oates, Run DMC, Eddie Murphy, Pat Benatar, Tears for Fears, John Mellencamp, Bryan Adams and Best New Artist Til Tuesday. Fast forward to 21 minutes in for a fun recap of the year.
Your nominees for Video of the Year in 1985:
- Don Henley - The Boys of Summer
- Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers - Don't Come Around Here No More
- David Lee Roth - California Girls
- David Lee Roth - Just A Gigolo/I Ain't Got Nobody
- USA For Africa - We Are The World
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Hear Geno on the air weekday afternoons. Geno's passions include fat guy food, concerts, sports, travel to Europe and South America. He loves 80s and 90s music, from MTV hairbands to old school freestyle, alternative rock to TRL era jams. Geno's radio career began in his hometown of Portland, Maine. Since then he's been on the air coast to coast from Boston to Las Vegas, Tampa to California.
