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SISTER CHRISTIAN

joke that goes, “What’s the last thing a drummer says before getting kicked out of the band? ‘Hey, I’ve written a song!’”? Judging by the example of Night Ranger’s “Sister Christian,” maybe it’s better Hot 100 singles chart in 1984 — it inspired a landslide of hair metal power ballads throughout the rest of the Eighties.

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