“Hang Tough” by Tesla

"Hang Tough" came off The Great Radio Controversy, Tesla's second album, as its second single in 1989, and the writing credit covers the whole crew: Jeff Keith, Frank Hannon, Tommy Skeoch, Brian Wheat and Troy Luccketta. Keith sings lead, Hannon plays electric guitar, Wheat plays bass, and Luccketta handles drums and percussion. Steve Thompson and Michael Barbiero produced and mixed it for Geffen, with Barbiero engineering as well.

It got as high as 34 on Billboard's mainstream rock chart. Nigel Dick directed the video, which opens on a boy fiddling with an old telegraph, an echo of the album's cover art, before cutting to the band playing the song in a darkened room.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.