DEF: “Weird Al” Yankovic “Eat It”
Over the past three and a half decades, “Weird Al” Yankovic has placed eleven songs on Billboard‘s Hot 100 chart, with four of them reaching the Top 40. The first of Yankovic’s Top 40 hits was the song that put him on the map as a national phenomenon. On this date in 1984, that song — “Eat It” — rose to a peak position of number 12. Today, “Eat It” by “Weird Al” Yankovic is the Daily Eighties Flashback.