But despite all those impressive credits, many fans will forever know Basil for “Mickey,” one of the greatest one-hit-wonders of the ‘80s, or possibly of all time. “Mickey” was actually a remake of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Somebody tell Dancing With The Stars to give Toni Basil a call already, because the 72 (nearly 73!) year old pop star just proved in a new video that she still has most of the moves she showed off in ...

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 -- ...

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 ...