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"Cross My Broken Heart," The Jets (1987)

"Cross My Broken Heart," The Jets (1987)

A lost hit from the Beverly Hills Cop universe

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May 19, 2025
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Peak: #7 on the Hot 100
Streams: 2 million

For a few years in the early 80s, I was allowed to watch MTV. I saw Van Halen’s “Hot For Teacher” video when it was new, which would’ve made me 5 years old, and I was probably too young for all that!

Eventually, though, my parents got wise to MTV’s salacious programming. After that, it was Nick Rocks or nothing.

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