I was right--for once--sort of

Gather around, kids, and let the old lady tell you a story.  Once upon a time, if there were no liner notes--what's liner notes?  Okay, once upon a time we had to play our music on records--what's a record?  It's like a really big plastic CD.  Or we had to play our music on cassettes--what's a cassette?  Well it's a, uh. . .never mind.  Don't even ask me about 8 tracks.  Anyway, sometimes those records or cassettes came with the lyrics to the songs--if you were lucky.  If there were no liner notes or you just heard the song on the radio, you had to guess at the lyrics.  No, really!  There was no new-fangled intraweb or whatever to look up the song and its lyrics. We could only see the video on MTV, if we were lucky enough to have cable.  We also had to walk to school uphill both ways in the snow.  Wait a minute--I grew up in California.  Okay, I had to walk to school uphill both ways in the fog.  Fine.  I had to walk to school.  Sometimes in the fog.  When my dinosaur didn't want to be ridden.
One song I heard on the radio was a little ditty about two kids named Billy and Patti enjoying life and running away together.  I sometimes got it mixed up with a little ditty about Jack and Diane.  Anyway.  For almost all my life I was certain the name of the song was "Young Hearts", based on the repeated line: "Young hearts, beat free tonight."  Turns out, the song is called "Young Turks."  Okay, look; I know I get lots of lyrics confused, but I had no idea he was saying "Young Turks, beat free tonight" (or is it "Young Turks, be free tonight"?).  So . . . I was correct.  He does say "Young hearts, beat free tonight."  I did get the lyrics right; just not the name of the song.
So, to recap: "Young Turks"= the song title; "Young hearts" = the lyrics  Billy and Patti NOT Jack and Diane.  The phrase "young Turks" does not show up in the song.  At all.
Huh? What's the name of my dinosaur?

The Glory Days of 1985

This is not a case of misunderheard lyrics.  I heard correctly.  I got it, but it's subtle.  Let me explain.
The song "1985" by Bowling for Soup is about a woman who is having a midlife crisis of sorts.  She had all sorts of plans for her life which never came to fruition.  She is living a normal, middle-class existence, but would rather be back in her younger years when she had all sorts of grandiose ideas of what she would do and how she would be famous. 
The song is full of references of what was popular in the 1980s, and the chorus lists popular singers from that era--the first singer listed being Bruce Springsteen.
In May of 1985 Bruce Springsteen released a single called "Glory Days".  This song talks about some people who sit and relive the "glory days" of their youth. The words of the chorus are as follows: "Glory days, well they'll pass you by
Glory days, in the wink of a young girl's eye
Glory days, glory days."
 So the song "1985" is about a woman thinking back to her glory days of 1985--the actual year the song "Glory Days" was released by Bruce Springsteen.
Coincidence?  I think not.
Well played.