Bananarama, “Cruel Summer” (1983)
The U.K. pop trio flew to New York for the first time to shoot the video for its 1983 stateside breakout, “Cruel Summer.” As the story goes, the group, tired from trekking around the city in the August heat, scored some blow from a bunch of Brooklyn dockworkers to help them make it through the shoot. Whether their excitement is chemically induced or not, the band certainly exhibits the same joyful exuberance you’d expect from a pack of drugged up tourists. —Andrew Frisicano