Eddie and the Cruiser’s ‘On the Dark Side’ is the first single by a fictional band I remember hearing as a kid. And I assumed the band playing it was real.

I’m not sure I ever saw the entirety of the 1983 film that shares the band’s name, but I feel like it was playing on HBO in our house quite a bit. That’s how the movie found an audience a year after it flopped in theaters, and that’s how this song became a top ten hit.

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