Monday Music "Broken Wings" by Mister, Mister

I decided to roll with this song, I was traveling a lot this weekend and I was listening a lot to my Sirius/XM radio on the 80's channel and they were playing the top 40 songs from 1985 and it was this time that I went to Fort Leonard Wood in Missouri for Basic Training and the series of songs were making me a bit introspective.  I use music to tell stories of various parts of my life and I am sure that other people do the same thing.  It was to me the boundaries of going from a kid to a man.  A rite of passage as it were.  I have regrets in my life but joining the Military wasn't one of them.

"Broken Wings" is a 1985 song recorded by American pop rock band Mr. Mister. It was released in June 1985 as the lead single from their second album Welcome to the Real World. The song peaked at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 in December 1985, where it remained for two weeks. It was released as the band was just about to embark on a US tour opening for Tina Turner. The song peaked at number four in the United Kingdom, the highest chart position the group ever achieved in Britain. "Broken Wings" became the first of two consecutive number ones of the band on the American charts, the other chart-topper being "Kyrie".

The music video for "Broken Wings" was directed by Oley Sassone and filmed in black-and-white. It features lead vocalist/bassist Richard Page driving through the desert in a classic Ford Thunderbird, the first allusion to birds. There is a scene where Page is sitting in a church when a Harris's Hawk flies in through the window and lands next to him on the pew and they exchange a gaze. The full band is also featured in performance scenes. Also appearing in the video are an unknown man and woman dancing tango. They are only shown from the waist down. At the end of the video Page is seen next to the Thunderbird with the vehicle's hood open, symbolizing broken wings.