The most obscure pop standard of the 80’s must be John Paul Young’s “Soldier of Fortune”. I say pop standard because it exhibits every element of “popness” that should have ostensibly brought about an adult contemporary hit for Mr. Young. It contains a very memorable and addictive obbligato with a par-four synthesizer on typical glock mode, it features saccharine but accomplished vocals from a too-young-to-be-cool man of obscure national origin (à la Chris De Burgh), it contains fashionably ..read more
