Autograph - Turn Up The Radio

“Turn Up the Radio“ Single by Autograph from the album Sign in Please B-side “Thrill of Love“ Released December 22, 1984 Recorded February to June 1984 Genre Glam metal, heavy metal Label RCA Records Writer(s) Steve Plunkett, Steve Isham, Randy Rand, Steve Lynch, Keni Richards Producer(s) Neil Kernon “Turn Up the Radio“ is a song by American glam metal band Autograph and the lead single from their 1984 debut album, Sign in Please. Released on December 22, 1984, “Turn Up The Radio“ was Autograph’s only Top 40 hit, reaching No. 29 in the Billboard 100 and receiving significant MTV airplay. It would remain the band’s most popular song and a staple of mainstream 1980s heavy metal. The song’s music video gained significant airplay in the early days of MTV. Set in a 1980s technological future, the video opens with the band walking into a theater hall through an automated door. A RoboCop-like figure points, saying “sign in please“, a direct reference to the album on which the song appears.