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I Want My '80s Tour Live
11/28/25 | 1h 2m 7s | Rating: TV-G
Rick Springfield, Wang Chung and John Waite perform their biggest hits of the decade including “Jessie’s Girl,” “Affair of the Heart,” “World Start Turning,” “Love Somebody,” “Don’t Talk to Strangers,” “Everybody Have Fun Tonight,” “Dance Hall Days,” “When I See You Smile” and “Missing You."
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I Want My '80s Tour Live
(cheering and applauding) Well, take your baby by the hand And make her do a high hand stand And take your baby by the heel And do the next thing that you feel We were so in phase In our dance hall days We were cool on craze When I, you, and everyone we knew Could believe, do, and share in what was true I said Well, take your baby by the hair And pull her close and there, there, there And take your baby by the ears And play upon her darkest fears We were so in phase In our dance hall days We were cool on craze When I, you, and everyone we knew Could believe, do, and share in what was true I said Dance hall days, love Dance hall days Dance hall days JACK: Put your hands together.
Put your hands together.
Everybody in the top row.
Everybody in the top row, we're all together.
Well, take your baby by the wrist And in her mouth, an amethyst And in her eyes, two sapphires blue And you need her and she needs you And you need her and she needs you And you need her and she needs you And you need her and she needs you You need her We were so in phase In our dance hall days We were cool on craze When I, you, and everyone we knew Could believe, do, and share in what was true Dance hall days, love Dance hall days Dance hall days Dance hall days Dance hall days Dance hall days Dance hall days Yeah!
Yeah!
(cheering and applauding) (cheering and applauding) (cheering and applauding) BOTH: Thank you so much.
NICK: We're going to sing along now.
You up for that?
JACK: You need to be up on your feet for this, 'cause you're going to be singing.
You can't sit down and sing.
Ooh Oh Meet me in a restaurant Meet me on the top of the world Meet me and we'll talk the language of love I'll meet you anywhere you want I'll meet you on a ballroom floor Meet me and we'll float to the heavens above I wish you'd drop what you're doing And get on the case So we could blow this existence Right out into space And share a sweet isolation Let's go there today, go today, go today Every way, right away, oh, let's go Let's go, baby, let's go, baby, come on Let's go, baby, let's go, baby, come on Take your cue from now I'm saying, baby, let's go Will you listen to me I'm saying, baby, come on now Let's go 'cause we can't hold back no more There's no way Hey Meet me on a mountain top Meet me at the end of the block Meet me and we'll talk the language of love I'll take you in my arms again I'll take you to the edge of time Together we can float to the heavens above I wish you'd drop what you're doing And get on the case So we could blow this existence Right out into space And share a sweet isolation Let's go there today Go today, go today Every way, right away Oh, let's go Let's go, baby, let's go, baby, come on 'Cause baby I want your love Let's go, baby, let's go, baby, come on 'Cause baby I'm sayin' Take your cue from now I'm saying, baby, let's go Will you listen to me I'm saying, baby, come on now Let's go 'cause we can't hold back no more There's no way Meet me on the dance floor And we'll dance for the rhythm Dance to the rhythm Get your feet in motion And we'll dance to the rhythm Dance to the rhythm Dance to the rhythm of love, whoa Let's go, baby, let's go, baby, come on 'Cause baby I want your love Let's go, baby, let's go, baby, come on 'Cause baby I'm sayin' Take your cue from now I'm saying, baby, let's go Will you listen to me I'm saying, baby, come on now Let's go 'cause we can't hold back no Let's go 'cause we can't hold back no Let's go 'cause we can't hold back no more There's no way Hey now Let's go baby, let's go baby Let's go baby, let's go baby Let's go, baby, let's go, baby, come on JACK: I wanna hear you guys singing it.
Let's go, baby, let's go, baby, come on It's pretty good but I need it much louder than that.
Let's go, baby, let's go, baby, come on Yeah, it's getting better.
One more.
Let's go, baby, let's go, baby, come on That was so good I need to hear that one more time.
Give it to me.
Let's go, baby, let's go, baby, come on Ahh, I love you guys!
Take your cue from me now I'm saying, baby, let's go Will you listen to me I'm saying, baby, come on now Let's go 'cause we can't hold back no more There's no way Baby, let's go (cheering and applauding) Oh, yeah I'll drive a million miles To be in this big beautiful Casino tonight If you're feeling low Turn up your radio The words we use are strong They make reality So turn the music on Oh, baby, dance with me Alright Come on!
Turn it up Move down Rip it up Rip it up Move it down to the ground Rip it up Cool down Rip it up Get out what's inside of you Sing it to me!
Everybody have fun tonight That's right!
Everybody have fun tonight Again!
Everybody Wang Chung tonight Everybody!
Everybody have fun tonight Everybody Wang Chung tonight Everybody have fun Deep in the world tonight Our hearts beat safe and sound I'll hold you so close Just let yourself go down Alright.
Rip it up Cool down Rip it up Move it down to the ground Rip it up Cool down Rip it up Don't hang me on the borderline Sing it to me!
Everybody have fun tonight Everybody have fun tonight Everybody Wang Chung tonight Everybody have fun tonight Everybody Wang Chung tonight Everybody have fun tonight Everybody have fun We're on the edge of oblivion And all the world is Babylon And all the love and everyone A ship of fools sailing on Everybody Everybody have fun tonight Everybody Now everybody Wang Chung tonight Across the nation, around the world Everybody have fun tonight A celebration, so spread the word Everybody NICK: Come on now.
Everyone Everybody Everyone Everybody Everyone Ooh, yeah Everybody have fun tonight Everybody have fun tonight Everybody Wang Chung tonight Everybody have fun tonight Everybody Wang Chung tonight Everybody have fun tonight Everybody have fun Everybody Everybody Everyone We wanna tell you Everybody Everyone Everyone Now everybody Wang Chung Everybody All you people Everyone Everybody, everywhere Everybody Everybody Wang Chung Everyone (cheering and applauding) NICK: Thank you so much.
(cheering and applauding) JACK: Thank you, guys.
You're a fabulous audience.
We really appreciate it.
(cheering and applauding) (cheering and applauding) People talking And they're saying that you're leaving, yeah You're so unhappy, babe With the way that you've been living, alright We always wish for money We always wish for fame We think we've got the answers Some things don't ever change Change It doesn't matter who you are Change What's in your heart ain't never gonna change Look in the mirror And you see how you've been taken You're looking back now But only your heart is breakin', yeah We always wish for money We always wish for fame We think we've got the answers Some things don't ever change Change It doesn't matter Change What's in your heart, I wanna know right now JOHN: Anyone out there remember 1982?
I do.
Do you remember When you got your lucky break?
You're looking back now It seems I'm such a big mistake Ow, we always wish for money We always wish for fame We think we've got the answers Some things don't ever change Change It doesn't matter who you are Change What's in your heart I wanna know baby Change Blowing through your world Every single day Taking you and me away Yeah Change Blowing through your world Every single day Change Changing you and me away Oh, yeah, yeah (cheering and applauding) Sometimes I wonder how I'd ever make it through Through this world without having you I just wouldn't have a clue No 'Cause sometimes it seems like this world Is closing in on me And there's no way of breaking free But then I see you'll reach for me Yeah, sometimes I want to give up and give in And quit this fight And then I see you baby And everything in my world, it's alright When I see you smile I can face the world Oh oh I can do anything When I see you smile I see a ray of light Oh oh She's shining right through the rain When I see you smile, baby Baby, when I see you smile at me JOHN: What do you think of that?
(cheering) And baby there's nothing In this world that could ever do What the touch of your hand can do It's like nothing that I ever knew before Yeah And when the rain is falling I don't feel it 'cause you're here with me now One look at you baby Yeah, that's all I ever need You're all I'll ever need now When I see you smile I can face the world Everybody!
Oh oh I can do anything, yeah When I see you smile I see a ray of light Oh oh I see it shining right through the rain When I see you smile, baby Baby, when I see you smile at me Sometimes I wanna give up and give in That's right.
And then I see you baby And I remember why You're my reason for living, yeah Yeah When I see you smile Yeah, I can face the world Oh oh I can do anything, yeah When I see you smile I see a ray of light Oh oh See it shining right through the rain Yeah When I see you smile, baby Baby, when I see you smile at me All you people.
(cheering) Every day of my life Oh, yeah Smile at me, yeah (cheering and applauding) (cheering and applauding) Every time I think of you I always catch my breath But I'm still standing here And you're miles away and I'm wondering Why you left And there's a storm that's raging Through my frozen heart tonight I hear your name in certain circles And it always makes me smile I spend my time thinking about you And it's almost driving me wild And it's my heart that's breaking Down this long distance line tonight I ain't missing you at all Missing you Since you've been gone away I ain't missing you Missing you No matter what my friends say There's a message in the wire And I'm sending you all this signal tonight You don't know how desperate I've become And it looks like I'm losing this fight In your world I have no meaning Though I'm trying hard to understand And it's my heart that's breaking Down this long distance line tonight I ain't missing you at all Missing you Since you've been gone away I ain't missing you Missing you No matter what I might say There's a message that I'm sending out Like a telegraph to your soul And if I can't bridge this distance Stop this heartbreak overload I ain't missing you at all Missing you Since you've been gone away I ain't missing you Missing you No matter what my friends say I ain't missing you Missing you I ain't missing you Missing you I can lie to myself these days Missing you No way baby Missing you I ain't missing you at all I can lie to myself These days I ain't missing you, oh No way, no way I ain't missing you baby (cheering and applauding) (cheering and applauding) (cheering and applauding) (cheering and applauding) (cheering and applauding) Heart in my mouth Pulse in my head Mercury rising into the red The smell of your skin Can light up all the fires in me Hungry to touch I'm eager to please Out of control And I hand you the keys Every night I am burning To make love to you Don't try to tell me You think it's all physical It goes way deeper than that You better know It's an affair of the heart It's an affair of the heart An affair of the heart Have a little blind faith, believe When we make love It's a passionate thing You shudder and shake Sink your teeth in my skin I can almost believe you were made To be played by my hands You got the power It amazes me still How you play my emotions With consummate skill I don't have to look any further Than into your eyes Don't try to tell me You think it's just physical It goes way deeper than that Affair of the heart It's an affair of the heart It's an affair of the heart Have a little blind faith, believe It's an affair of the heart Hey, yeah!
Don't try to tell me You think it's all physical It goes way deeper than that You better know It's an affair of the heart It's an affair of the heart It's an affair of the heart It's an affair of the heart You better know It's an affair of the heart It's an affair of the heart It's an affair of the heart Have a little blind faith, believe It's an affair of the heart (cheering and applauding) RICK: Woo!
(cheering and applauding) I was born in the Southern Land Yeah, a million miles from America Whatever we wanted was just a matter of choosing And I was raised in the Great White Way Just like all those kids in America And the TV taught us to win With no thought of losing Then I woke up This is the real world The real town without pity This is the real world In the shadow of the city Yeah, this is the real wheel You don't get too many spins And this is the real deal Not everybody wins Just another soul lost in America I was so frustrated and I got so lonely It almost took a miracle to open my eyes World start turning Turn into the wind World start turning Some things were never meant to be I've been standing on the beach Crying to the raging sea I been falling, falling Heart start beating Turn into the wind Heart start beating Some things were never meant to be Made a promise to myself I'll never get that low again We were taught if a man believes in What he wants in America It's only a matter of time Just a matter of seasons But I walk through the houses Of the dreams that died I see the ones still trapped there The ones that tried But spent the rest of their lives wondering why And searching for reasons And they never wake up This is the real world You've got to know just when to bend Yeah, here in the world Precious little matters in the end Yeah, this is the real world The real town without pity And this is the real world In the shadow of the city Just another soul lost in America I was so frustrated and I got so lonely It almost took a miracle to open up my eyes World start turning Turn into the wind World start turning Some things were never meant to be I've been standing on the beach Crying to the raging sea I been falling, falling Heart start beating Turn into the wind Heart start beating Some things were never meant to be Made a promise to myself I'll never get that low again Can't stop the world, can't stop the world Never could settle for where I was Too many places I was trying to be The times I succeeded and the times I failed You know that no one will remember but me World start turning, world start turning I've been standing on the beach Crying to the raging sea I been falling, falling World start turning Turn into the wind World start turning Some things were never meant to be I've been standing on the beach Crying to the raging sea I been falling, falling Heart start beating Turn into the wind Heart start beating Some things were never meant to be Made a promise to myself I'll never get that low again I been falling, falling World start turning World start turning World start turning World start turning World start turning World start turning World start turning World start turning (cheering and applauding) (cheering and applauding) RICK: This is called "State of the Heart."
(cheering and applauding) It's just the state of the heart I'm waiting here for you In the state I'm in I know your name, I told you mine We've stopped and passed the time of day You work in town, I work at night That gives us six until seven to work this out If I seem a little strange It's just the state of the heart I'm waiting here for you In the state I'm in You are the moon, I am the sea You pull me in and gaze on down at me I was alone, I thought I was immune It's good to know The door can still be open wide If I seem a little strange It's just the state of the heart I'm waiting here for you In the state I'm in Light 'em up!
It's just the state of the heart You know I'll wait in the dark In the state I'm in We get closer and closer To falling out or falling in I go over and over But I can't change the state This heart is in If I seem a little strange It's just the state of the heart I'm waiting here for you In the state I'm in It's just the state of the heart You know I wait in the dark In the state I'm in State of the heart State of the heart State of the heart State of the heart Whoa ooh State of the heart State of the heart State of the heart State of the heart Whoa ooh (cheering and applauding) (cheering and applauding) When you were just a young girl And still in school How come you never learned the golden rule?
Don't talk to strange men, don't be a fool I'm hearing stories, I don't think that's cool Why don'tcha Tell me someone isn't lovin' you?
'Cause you're my girl You're seeing some slick continental dude I'm beggin' you Sing it!
Don't talk to strangers Don't talk to strangers You know he'll only Don't talk Don't talk Don't talk Don't talk Don't talk Don't talk to him Don't talk to him Nobody Don't talk Nobody ever told you Don't talk Ooh So tell me, how's life in Atlantic City?
I hear the competition's tough Baby, that's a pity Every man's an actor, every girl is pretty I don't like what's gettin' back to me Now, who's this Don Juan I've been hearing of?
Love hurts when only one's in love Did ya fall at first sight Or did you need a shove?
Don't talk to strangers Baby, don'tcha talk Don't talk to strangers You know he'll only Don't talk Don't talk Don't talk Don't talk Don't talk Don't talk to him Don't talk to him Nobody Don't talk Nobody ever told you Don't talk Ooh Fais l'amour avec moi What's he sayin', baby?
Viens dormir, mon amour I asked you not to talk to him Je t'aime donne moi ton coeur se soir I'm begging you Sing it!
Don't talk to strangers Don't talk to strangers Don't talk Don't talk Don't talk Don't talk to him Nobody Don't talk Nobody ever told you Don't talk Don't talk to strangers What?
Don't talk to strangers You know he'll only Don't talk Don't talk Don't talk Don't talk Don't talk Don't talk to him Don't talk to him Nobody Don't talk Nobody ever told you Don't talk Don't talk to strangers Baby, don'tcha talk Don't talk to strangers Alright, we're going to split you guys up here.
We're going to have a little competition.
And we're going to split you up this way.
55 and under.
(cheering) And 56 and over.
(cheering) Now, if you're on your first date with your boyfriend and you told him you were 47 and you're really 56, you got to sing with the older group.
Hey, I'm in the older group.
(cheering) Alright, we'll start with the youngsters.
You ready?
55 and under!
(cheering) Now baby, don't ya talk Don't talk to strangers Ah, you better do better.
Don't talk to strangers Louder!
Don't talk to strangers Alright, that was pretty- that was pretty good.
Pretty good.
Now let's see what mature muscle can do.
You ready?
56 and over.
(cheering) Now baby, don't you talk Don't talk to strangers Now baby, don't you talk Don't talk to strangers Sing it out!
Don't talk to strangers Baby, don't you talk Don't talk to strangers (cheering) I got a feeling that 56 and over took it tonight.
(cheering) It was close.
It was close.
But don't worry, 55 and under.
(cheering) Soon you'll be in the 56 and over group.
(cheering) You know what's best, when we all sing together.
(cheering) Baby, don't you talk Don't talk to strangers In the name of brothers and sisters.
Don't talk to strangers Oh baby, don't you talk Don't talk to strangers Don't talk Don't talk to strangers You know he'll only use you up Don't talk Don't talk Don't talk Don't talk Don't talk to him Nobody Don't talk Nobody ever told you Don't talk Don't talk to strangers Yes!
(cheering and applauding) You better love somebody I can see the path you're cutting It cost me a little piece of my heart I can see the doors you're shutting 'Cause they were open at the start Baby, loving you has been hard on me You're a tough little sister Looking for Mr.
Right On the wrong side of town You better love somebody It's late You better love somebody Don't wait You better love somebody Don't tempt fate You're gonna push it just a little too far One night Your eyes are wild, your skin's so white You're undernourished and overfed She's got the teeth, she knows how to bite 'Cause when you bit I bled You got the perfect image Of the perfect man You're a tough little sister But you'll settle for a mister tonight You're running out of time You better love somebody It's late You better love somebody Don't wait You better love somebody Don't tempt fate You're gonna push it just a little too far I'm only saying what I feel You think I'm wrong I know I was sleeping at the wheel I thought that you were driving You better love somebody It's late You better love somebody You better love somebody It's late You better love somebody Don't wait You better love somebody Don't tempt fate You're gonna push it just a little too far One night Ah, one night, oh, oh, oh, oh One night, oh, oh, oh, oh Ah, one night, oh, oh, oh, oh One night, oh, oh, oh, oh Woo!
(cheering and applauding) Jessie is a friend Yeah, I know he's been a good friend of mine But lately something's changed It ain't hard to define Jessie's got himself a girl And I want to make her mine And she's watching him with those eyes And she's lovin' him with that body I just know it!
And he's holding her in his arms Late, late at night Sing it with me!
You know I wish that I had Jessie's girl I wish that I had Jessie's girl Where can I find a woman like that?
(cheering) I'll play along with the charade That doesn't seem to be a reason to change You know I feel so dirty When they start talking cute I wanna tell her that I love her But the point is probably moot 'Cause she's watching him with those eyes And she's lovin' him with that body I just know it!
He's holding her in his arms Late, late at night You know I wish that I had Jessie's girl I wish that I had Jessie's girl Where can I find a woman like that?
Like Jessie's girl I wish that I had Jessie's girl Where can I find a woman Where can I find a woman like that?
And I'm lookin' in the mirror all the time Wonderin' what she don't see in me I've been funny I've been cool with the lines Ain't that the way love's supposed to be?
Here we go!
Tell me, where can I find a woman like that?
(cheering and applauding) Oh yeah!
Woo!
(cheering and applauding) Where can I find a woman like that?
(cheering and applauding) Where can I find a woman like that?
Tell me, where can I find a woman like that?
Like Jessie's girl I wish that I had Jessie's girl I want Jessie's girl Where can I find a woman like that?
Like Jessie's girl I wish that I had Jessie's girl I want Jessie's girl (cheering and applauding) Tell me, where can I find a woman like that?
Like Jessie's girl I wish that I had Jessie's girl I want Jessie's girl Where can I find a woman like that?
Like Jessie's girl I wish that I had Jessie's girl I want, I want Jessie's girl Thank you, guys.
God bless you.
(cheering and applauding) Tell me, where can I find a woman like that?
Like Jessie's girl I wish that I had Jessie's girl I want Jessie's girl Where can I find a Woman like that?
Like Jessie's girl I wish that I had Jessie's girl I want, I want Jessie's girl
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