{"id":770252,"date":"2026-07-18T13:05:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T13:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/770252\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T13:05:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T13:05:10","slug":"3-rock-songs-from-1985-that-still-sound-like-classics-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/770252\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Rock Songs From 1985 That Still Sound Like Classics Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some rock songs enjoy a brief stint on the charts and on the radio and then fade into obscurity. And then some still sound good, regardless of when they were released, including these three rock songs. All out in 1985, they will always sound like classics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBroken Wings\u201d by Mr. Mister<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tPlay video<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1784379909_921_hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"Play\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/americansongwriter.com\/4-classic-songs-that-broke-every-rule-of-a-generic-top-40-hit-and-still-topped-the-charts\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Broken Wings<\/a>\u201d is Mr. Mister\u2019s first No. 1 single. On their sophomore Welcome To The Real World album,\u00a0 \u201cBroken Wings\u201d was written by band members Richard Page and Steve George, along with songwriter John Lang.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tVideos by American Songwriter\t\t<\/p>\n<p>A song about overcoming hard times in a relationship, \u201cBroken Wings\u201d says, \u201cTake these broken wings \/ And learn to fly again \/ Learn to live so free \/ When we hear the voices sing\/ The book of love will open up and let us in \/ Take these broken wings.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBroken Wings\u201d became a two-week No. 1 hit for Mr. Mister. They followed the song with \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9NDjt4FzFWY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Kyrie<\/a>\u201d, their second and final single to reach the top of the charts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe Built This City\u201d by Starship<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tPlay video<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1784379910_798_hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"Play\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A rock anthem if there ever was one, \u201cWe Built This City\u201d is Starship\u2019s first single, and first No. 1 hit. On their freshman Knee Deep In The Hoopla record, \u201cWe Built This City\u201d was written by Bernie Taupin, Martin Page, Dennis Lambert, and Peter Wolf.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe Built This City\u201d says, \u201cMarconi plays the mambo, listen to the radio \/ Don\u2019t you remember? \/ We built this city \/ We built this city on rock and roll \/ We built this city \/ We built this city on rock and roll\u00a0 Built this city \/ We built this city on rock and roll.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSussudio\u201d by Phil Collins<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tPlay video<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1784379910_410_hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"Play\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Phil Collins was well into his solo career when he released \u201cSussudio\u201d. On No Jacket Required, his third solo album,\u00a0 Collins is the sole writer of \u201cSussudio\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSussudio\u201d says, \u201cThere\u2019s a girl that\u2019s been on my mind \/ All the time \/ Su-sussudio, oh-oh \/ Now, she don\u2019t even know my name \/ But I think she likes me just the same \/ Su-sussudio, whoa.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Collins admits the song doesn\u2019t make sense. But nothing worked for him as well as the nonsensical word. When Collins began writing \u201cSussudio\u201d, he was working with his drum machine. He never imagined that it would stick.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo I kinda knew I had to find something else for that word,\u201d Collins <a href=\"https:\/\/americansongwriter.com\/5-phil-collins-songs-from-no-jacket-required-that-every-80s-fan-should-hear\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">says<\/a>. \u201cThen I went back and tried to find another word that scanned as well as \u2018sussudio,\u2019 and I couldn\u2019t find one, so I went back to \u2018sussudio.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Photo by Michael Ochs Archives\/Getty Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Some rock songs enjoy a brief stint on the charts and on the radio and then fade into&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":770253,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[20278,2617,88,216],"class_list":["post-770252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-1980s","tag-classic-rock","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=770252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/770253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=770252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=770252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=770252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}