July 7, 1989 –
The second single from their album The Raw & the Cooked, Good Thing by the Fine Young Cannibals, topping the Billboard Hot 100 chart on this date.
At the height of their popularity, the group was hounded to accept sponsorship deals, including a ridiculous one involving this song. “The worst thing was they wanted us to remake the ‘Good Thing’ video with Hondas instead of Vespas,” David Steele told Q magazine in 1990. “I used to hang out with scooter kids and to them the biggest joke in the whole world was the Honda scooter.”
The Haus of Dcaligari 