How a Bathroom Encounter Led to Rick Springfield’s “Affair of the Heart” and Other 80s Hidden Gems

Coming up an icon of the 80s was using a urinal when a fan recognized him and came up midstream and pitched him his demo. He gave him the tape when he was finished. the icon was Rick Springfield mourned the times Jessie’s Girl was a hit. Part of the music on that demo became his top 10 hit Affair of the Heart. Then a few years later another 80s icon (Steve Kilby of the Church) was using the bathroom of a woman he had come home with and heard a strange noise in the adjacent bathtub.. He pulled back the shower curtain and found a huge Lizard lurking which inspired another great 80s song, 80s hit Reptile. These interviews as well as one with John Oates and Colin Hay of Men at Work from the stories of the 5 best underplayed hits of the 80s including One hit wonder, The Captain of her Heart by Double and the amazing Electric Blue by Icehouse. . Urinals inspiring big hits… Anxiety keeping one artist up at night… Its all hear in the best of 80s hidden gems.

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