Toni Basil was already a 38-year-old showbiz veteran when her bouncy hit “Mickey” was released in the U.S. in May 1982, and in many ways the song was just a blip on her dizzyingly lengthy résumé. The ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WHAS11) – With everything that’s going on in the world, sometimes you just want to get up and dance like nobody’s watching. It was the mood for Toni Basil – if that name sounds ...

While Basil’s “Mickey” is famous, it wasn’t the original version of the song. According to Medium, “Mickey” was initially a track called “Kitty” by the British band Racey. When Basil performed the ...

She is not a one-hit wonder, thank you very much. She's an incredibly fit, 72-year-old woman who dances like the wind, but she's not stranger to the spotlight. Toni Basil, whose 1982 hit song "Mickey" ...

It took a little while, but the arrival of MTV wreaked absolute fucking bedlam on the pop charts. At the dawn of the '80s, most of the acts who hit #1 were established stars of one sort or another -- ...

Basil no longer wears the cheerleading outfit from the video of the 1980s hit, which shot to No. 1 on the Billboard charts in December 1982 thanks to exposure on MTV, but Basil is being cheered by ...

She's the 'Goddess of Go-Go' who topped the charts in 1982 with her smash hit Mickey. While more than four decades have passed since the release of Mickey, Toni Basil is still just as fierce and ...

It also finds inspiration in an unusual place: Toni Basil’s new wave cheerleader classic “ Hey Mickey.” SORRY uses that song’s lyrics to their own devices, painting a brooding portrait of desire and ...

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Toni Basil's claims arising from the use of her 80s hit "Mickey" in a South Park episode and in connection with a line of Disney clothing at Forever 21 have been rejected by a California appeals court ...