Autograph - Turn up the Radio - About the song
This was the only hit for Autograph, which was a Rock band from Los Angeles. The band members were music veterans, but had been together only a few months when they got a huge gig opening for Van Halen on their 1984 tour. David Lee Roth would jog with Autograph drummer Keni Richards, and invited them on the tour after hearing their demo tape. "Turn Up The Radio," with it's anthemic chorus and quotable lyric "Things go better with rock," was their only hit; the band released two more albums and broke up in 1989.
MTV was 3 years old when this song was released, and it was attracting a huge audience. In one of the earliest examples of product placement in a music video, Paper Mate funded the video in exchange for the band using their pen in the clip, which shows the band "Signing in" at the beginning. It was a great bit of marketing, as the video went into regular rotation on MTV, and Paper Mate got to demonstrate the benefits of their amazing erasable pen. Yes, hair metal and erasable pens - we were definitely in the '80s.
Turn up the Radio - Lyrics
I'm working hard you're working too
We do it everyday
For every minute I have to work
I need a minute to play
Day in day out all week long
Things go better with Rock
The only time I turn it down
Is when I'm sleeping it off
Turn up the radio
I need the music, give me some more
Turn up the radio
I wanna feel it, got to give me some more
Now listen
I wanna shake I wanna dance
Count it out to one, two, three
I feel the beat I'm in a trans
No better place to be
Day time night time anytime
Things go better with Rock
I'm going 24 hours a day
I can't seem to stop
Turn up the radio
I need the music, give me some more
Turn up the radio
I wanna feel it, got to give me some more
Turn up the radio
I wanna feel it, got to give me some more
Turn up the radio
I need the music, give me some more
Turn up the radio
I wanna feel it, got to give me some more
Turn up the radio
I need the music, give me some more
Turn up the radio
I wanna feel it, got to give me some more
Turn up the radio
I need the music, give me some more
Turn up the radio
I wanna feel it, got to give me some more
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