Billy Joel, the Rolling Stones, and AC/DC were still producing successful radio singles (from Storm Front, Steel Wheels, and The Razors Edge, respectively) and MTV played their latest videos, which in retrospect was a bad idea for MTV as well as the artists. Looking back, Billy Joel setting fire to photos of Lee Harvey Oswald and Oliver North in the “We Didn’t Start the Fire” video didn’t help him or the music channel seem any cooler. New albums by Bruce Springsteen, Don Henley, Phil Collins, and Sting were similarly relevant, if not exactly hip. Van Halen’s first record of the nineties, For
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