If you sand the edges off of the Top Ten Hits of 1966, you get 70’s Rock.

If you add studio technology to 70’s Rock, you get Disco.

Add some varnish and theatrics to Disco and cover it with Velveeta, and you’ve got the Pop music of the 1980’s.

Hall & Oates put the Velveeta in the microwave with “I Can’t Go for That (No Can Do)” in 1981.

In  1983 Michael Jackson and Prince found the tailor Warren Zevon sang about in 1978’s “Werewolves of London.” Inspired by those clothes and the Werewolf’s perfect hair, Whitney Houston and Lionel Richie found their wings and took 80’s Pop to new heights.

But you can always take a thing too far. Meat Loaf jumped the shark in 1993 when he was inspired by Hall & Oates 10-year-old hit and turned it into that strange musical vampire, “I’d Do Anything for Love (But I Won’t Do That.)

The curtain dropped. The crowd walked out. The show was over.