DEF: Talking Heads “Once in a Lifetime”

Among songs that seemed like they would have peaked higher on Billboard‘s Hot 100 chart is Talking Heads‘ “Once in a Lifetime.” The video got significant rotation on MTV, but the studio version of the song only bubbled under the chart in 1981, and a live version of the song spent just four weeks on the chart five years later. On this date in 1986, that live version of “Once in a Lifetime” climbed to a peak position of number 91. Today, “Once in a Lifetime” by Talking Heads is the Daily Eighties Flashback.