Great Attack! I loved the summer of ‘86. “The Edge of Heaven” is one of Wham!’s better songs, but I never noticed the lyrics about getting it on in a movie theater until a few years ago. I now think the idea of a farewell video is kind of pretentious, but I’ve always been a sucker for songs like “The Long and Winding Road” and series finales of TV shows, e.g. the only episode I saw of “Frasier” was the last one.

“That sounds exactly like what I would say if a huge hit like ‘Take My Breath Away’ was taken away from me!” Yeah, I don’t quite buy Davis’s statement either, but I probably would’ve said something similar in the same situation. Only I would’ve sounded whinier. (By the by, Berlin’s episode of “Bands Reunited” was pretty poignant, I thought.)

I do remember “Rumors” being on the Top 40 station in Macon, but I don’t remember the video at all. My brother still has the song on a taped-from-the-radio cassette somewhere.

Stanley Donen directed “Dancing on the Ceiling”? I’d forgotten that. I think the last movie he directed was 1983’s “Blame It on Rio,” which is awful but contains great gratuitous ’80s nudity in addition to Michael Caine’s vintage windshield-size eyeglasses. A few months after “Dancing in the Ceiling” debuted, Donen was credited with choreographing a long dance sequence in an episode of “Moonlighting” that was set to Billy Joel’s “Big Man on Mulberry Street.” Great episode, great sequence, great song, great television that stands the test of time. (Joe, I loved your story about the video-store selection you made. You’re not alone.)

I think Bananarama’s “Venus” is better than the Shocking Blue version.

I’ve never heard the spoken breakdown in “We Don’t Have to Take Our Clothes Off.” I must find this version of the song now!

I may be repeating myself, but two years ago I was in a sketch-comedy show in which a silent scene about a girl’s “walk of shame” after a one-night stand was originally set to Savage Garden’s “I Want You”; the director is a huge fan of that group. Thankfully he decided to use “Higher Love” in place of “I Want You” a week or so before the show went up.

Belinda Carlisle started out as much more of a punk than she eventually became. It’s not like she’s the only one, and it’s not the female equivalent of Johnny Rotten turning to Peter Cetera-style ballads later in his career, but she did stray pretty far from her roots, it seems.

I won’t defend “Glory of Love,” but I do enjoy trying to imitate Cetera when singing the bridge. “Like a knight in shining ah-mor from a long time a-GO / Take you to my castle far awaaaaaay …” Cue guitar solo. Or whatever. It does bug me that you and Mike got to sing pop songs in middle-school chorus while I was stuck singing crap from “The Music Man” and “The Sound of Music.” No fair.

Rob, you must find that Danny Aiello “answer” video for us. That sounds amazing. I’ll admit I had no clue who Aiello was when this video was on MTV all the time.