The Most Powerful Organization in the 1980s

The Westies? Children.

La Cosa Nostra? Amateurs.

The Yakuza? Rookies.

If you want to find the real movers and shakers in the underground, you need look no further than a certain shadowy organization that ruled the 1980's with an iron fist.

If you wanted to make movies with a hit soundtrack, you needed the imprimatur of one group, without which, you might as well take your ball and go home.

The secret power of this cabal is whispered about in the backstage corridors and the dressing rooms where roadies, groupies and those who have it from a friend who heard it from a friend who...

Of course, we speak now, in hushed voices, of the darkest power in the music business.

The Kenny Loggins Mafia.

The surest path to a hit movie in those days was to kiss the ring and have him bless your soundtrack album with a sure-fire hit. Without it, you don't have Top Gun. You just have Iron Eagle.

'What's Iron Eagle' you ask? Our point exactly. If they had gone with Mr. Loggins for the soundtrack, rather than that wash-out, Freddy Mercury, and his Queen brethren, who knows where Jason Gedrick's career would be nowadays.

Ditto for Flash Gordon, a film that never reached the apex attained by it's 1980 counterpart, Caddyshack.

And let us not forget the motherlode - Footloose.

We're just glad this secret menace has been brought to light and that one feathered-haired man will never again keep our entertainment complex in a stranglehold of toe-tapping, jangly hooks.

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