Sounding slightly Country at the start, this Air Supply classic slides quickly into the staple mushy-wushy Air Supply mold. This tune was actually released toward the end of 1980, but reached its peak chart position of #5 on the Top 40 charts in early 1981. The twelve love songs on this list are void of any “you done me wrong” or “why did you hurt me” or “please notice me I’m a stalker” junk, just good love songs about the good kind of love. While 1981 was the year we lost Rock & Roll’s iconic Bill Haley, Reggae pioneer Bob Marley, singer/songwriter Harry Chapin and the epic and legendary songwriter and musician Hoagy Carmichael, the world saw the births of future stars like Justin Timberlake, Josh Groban, Beyoncé Knowles and Britney Spears.īut through it all, there was still love, and love songs in 1981 some great, some good and some not so good. In New York City, while sitting in Tom’s Restaurant, a then unknown Suzanne Vega penned the lyrics to “Tom’s Diner”. A guy named Billy Idol left the band Generation X to begin a solo career, Ozzy Osbourne bit off the head of a dove and an all-girl band called the Go-Go’s were signed to IRS Records. First and foremost was the debut of a cable television channel called MTV, which, upon its inception, played music videos 24 hours a day. As 1980 quietly slipped into 1981, many changes were brewing that would inevitably change the musical landscape forever, and begin to quash the last remnants of the 1970s once and for all.

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