Run To You, Summer Of ’69, Heaven, Somebody It’s Only Love Quite a bit, because at the time for me it was the beginning of a very long treadmill between touring and recording, touring and recording. We concentrated for most of ’83 on America and nowhere else. Actually, we did a few shows in Canada and the UK, but we really set up America for the next album.
You could feel it growing on ; you could feel the momentum as the tours went on. People started recognising the songs; it was no longer just a set list of literally unknown songs, it was suddenly becoming a set list of very well-known songs. So yeah, I think by the time came along we had touched ground in most places in America and we built a very good base with FM radio.
This was also around the time MTV was about to explode as well. was one of the first videos ever played on MTV, so it made an enormous difference to be there in the groundbreaking days. No, I never felt like that.
I only thought, let’s just make songs that will be good for the setlist. What do I need? I need this kind of song and I need this kind of song. So I just set about to write them.
Fortunately, during ’83 and the album and going into ’84, Jim Vallance and I had a very good writing partnership where practically every time we sat down we’d end up writing another song that ended up being on . For example, was , was , was and was . We just had this momentum of writing song after song, and without really realising what we were doing becau.