20 Biggest Songs of the Summer: The 1980s
Summer movie soundtracks and MTV faves reign over the summers of the Reagan era
10. Paul McCartney, "Coming Up"
Paul McCartney's biggest hit of the Eighties that didn’t get an assist from Stevie Wonder or Michael Jackson. "Coming Up" was a quirky nod to disco with Paul’s voice given a helium effect with sped-up tape. It was also one of the unlikely songs that motivated John Lennon to start working on music again in 1980.