One-Hit Wonders
Rock Me Amadeus
Falco
Bully in Back to the Future
Biff
This band put a little “Nothin’ But a Good Time” into the late-'80s party scene!
Poison
High School Detention
Breakfast Club
Wax on
Mr. Miyagi
Come on Eileen
Dexys Midnight Runners
Star Trek II
Khan
Their 1981 debut was titled Too Fast for Love.
Mötley Crüe
2 nerds create their perfect women.
Weird Science
A Few Good Men is famous for this quote.
You can't handle the truth!
This 1982 song by The J. Geils Band featured a woman whose name became the title of one of the decade's biggest sing-alongs.
Centerfold
100-foot-tall marshmallow man
Gozer
Their drummer famously continued performing after a 1984 accident left him with only one arm.
Def Leppard
The character from this movie sells shower curtain rings.
Planes, Trains and Automobiles
If you build it, he will come
Field of Dreams
Artist who sang 99 Luftballoons.
Nena
High school principal spent a Saturday punishing five students for their misbehavior in The Breakfast Club
Richard Vernon
heir 1986 album Slippery When Wet produced three Top 10 hits
Bon Jovi
The character from this movie uses golf balls to hit people.
Uncle Buck
In Top Gun, Maverick delivers this short declaration after being challenged about his flying ability.
I feel the need—the need for speed!
Artist who performed Safety Dance.
Men Without Hats
Die Hard...the sophisticated German terrorist
Hans Gruber
heir debut album featured “Welcome to the Jungle”
Guns N’ Roses
Teenager discovers that his seemingly perfect suburban parents have a surprisingly wild side
Some Kind of Wonderful
This character's closing narration ends with a memorable description of the five students: “...each of us is a brain, an athlete, a basket case, a princess and a criminal.”
Brian