Huey Lewis and the News: "The Power of Love"

Huey Lewis and the News are an American rock band based in San Francisco, California. They had a run of hit singles during the 1980s and early 1990s, eventually scoring a total of 19 top-ten singles across the Billboard Hot 100, Adult Contemporary and Mainstream Rock charts. Their greatest success was in the 1980s with the number-one album, Sports, coupled with a series of highly successful MTV videos. Their worldwide fame expanded when the song "The Power of Love" was featured as a key track in the film Back to the Future, became a number-one hit, and nominated for an Academy Award. The News combined a rock (and sometimes, a "blues rock") backing with soul and doo-wop-influenced harmony vocals and Lewis's voice.

Berlin: "Take My Breath Away", "The Metro" and "Masquerade"

Berlin is an American New Wave/Synthpop act most notable for the love song of the 1986 movie Top Gun, "Take My Breath Away".

erlin's breakout EP, 1982's Pleasure Victim, featured core members Nunn, Crawford, and Diamond, as well as drummer, synthesist and producer Dan Van Patten and guitarist Chris Ruiz-Velasco, the latter two founding members along with Crawford. As Pleasure Victim took off, however, Van Patten and Ruiz-Velasco parted ways with Nunn, Crawford, and Diamond. Berlin officially disbanded in 1987, partly due to the lack of success of their album Count Three & Pray despite the success of "Take My Breath Away". Nunn retained the legal rights to usage of the band's name after legal wranglings with the founding member of the group, John Crawford. Nunn recreated Berlin (with a new lineup of musicians) in 1998.

Klein & MBO and "Dirty Talk": At the Gates of Italo-disco

Klein & MBO Italo post-disco stalwarts were formed around the nucleus of Mario Boncaldo [Italy] and Electro-Soul-House master Tony Carrasco [USA].

The principle vocals were performed around American Italian jazz singer Rosanna Casale and American chorus singer Naimy Hackett. The electro catchy techy disco sounds and melodies were all produced, written, arranged, and mixed by Mario Boncaldo and Tony Carrasco, and co-arranged with Davide Piatto.

During the mid-80s, singles like "Dirty Talk", "Wonderful" and "The MBO Theme" became major hits

in both the emerging New York garage scene and Chicago's house community. Klein & MBO's first single "Dirty Talk" was originally released 1982 in Milan, Italy and soon after in the USA, where it became a huge hit and was subsequently released throughout the entire world. Tony Carrasco produced and mixed the last recorded Klein & MBO release in 1986, entitled "Keep in Touch", while his former partner Mario Boncaldo decided to go solo and formed the italo dance group M.B.O.