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* ArtisticLicenseGeography: Hazard, Nebraska, is a real place, but it's too small even to be called a town, and doesn't have a river.

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* ArtisticLicenseGeography: Hazard, Nebraska, is a real place, but it's too small even to be called a town, town (it's a village with a population of 57 as of the 2020 census) and doesn't have a river.river, though it has a muddy creek.

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%%* BerserkButton: Being called "shameless," [[http://www.themorningnews.org/article/right-here-waiting apparently]].
%%* CourtroomDrama: The music video for "Hazard".

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%%* * BerserkButton: Being He utterly hates being called "shameless," [[http://www.themorningnews.org/article/right-here-waiting apparently]].
%%* * CourtroomDrama: The music video for "Hazard"."Hazard" ends with the protagonist put on trial for his LoveInterest's death.



%%* DeathByWomanScorned: "Hazard", ''maybe''.
* DoubleMeaningTitle: "Hazard". [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hazard,_Nebraska Hazard, Nebraska]] is a real place.

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%%* * DeathByWomanScorned: "Hazard", ''maybe''.
It's suggested in "Hazard" that Mary was killed by a police officer she rejected, but the song is told by the town scapegoat and UnreliableNarrator is in play.
* DoubleMeaningTitle: "Hazard". Besides the general meaning of "danger," [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hazard,_Nebraska Hazard, Nebraska]] is a real place.



%%* PowerBallad: His speciality.
%%* RockStarSong: "Superstar".
%%* SillyLoveSongs

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%%* * PowerBallad: His speciality.
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speciality, though they tend to be softer than the norm. "Right Here Waiting" is his best-known example.
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RockStarSong: "Superstar".
%%* SillyLoveSongs
"Superstar." A woman who has fame but can't find love or self fulfillment.
-->''You're a mystery, and it's plain to me''\\
''There's someone that you'd rather be''.
* SillyLoveSongs: He made a career primarily on achingly-sweet songs about love, loss, and devotion. "Right Here Waiting" is an aching ballad about loving someone who is far away, and "Now and Forever" and "This I Promise You" are popular first-dance songs at weddings.
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%%* EightiesHair: ... That mullet, please.

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%%* EightiesHair: ... That mullet, please.* EightiesHair: Since he achieved his career success around the end of that decade, a mullet - which he wore at the time - is associated with that time period.
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* LongDistanceRelationship: "Right Here Waiting" is about one of these: the singer's beloved is "oceans away", and how he sees them "next to never" and he "can't get near [them]".

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* LongDistanceRelationship: "Right Here Waiting" is about one of these: the singer's beloved is "oceans away", apart", and how he sees them "next to never" and he "can't get near [them]".
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%%* LongDistanceRelationship: "Right Here Waiting" is about one of these.

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%%* * LongDistanceRelationship: "Right Here Waiting" is about one of these.these: the singer's beloved is "oceans away", and how he sees them "next to never" and he "can't get near [them]".

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* EightiesHair: ... That mullet, please.

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* %%* EightiesHair: ... That mullet, please.



* BerserkButton: Being called "shameless," [[http://www.themorningnews.org/article/right-here-waiting apparently]].
* CourtroomDrama: The music video for "Hazard".

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* %%* BerserkButton: Being called "shameless," [[http://www.themorningnews.org/article/right-here-waiting apparently]].
* %%* CourtroomDrama: The music video for "Hazard".



* [[DeathByWomanScorned Death By Man Scorned]]: "Hazard", ''maybe''.
* DoubleMeaningTitle: "Hazard", yet again. [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hazard,_Nebraska Hazard, Nebraska]] is a real place.
* LongDistanceRelationship: "Right Here Waiting" is about one of these.
* PowerBallad: His speciality.
* RockStarSong: "Superstar".
* SillyLoveSongs

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* [[DeathByWomanScorned Death By Man Scorned]]: %%* DeathByWomanScorned: "Hazard", ''maybe''.
* DoubleMeaningTitle: "Hazard", yet again."Hazard". [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hazard,_Nebraska Hazard, Nebraska]] is a real place.
* %%* LongDistanceRelationship: "Right Here Waiting" is about one of these.
* %%* PowerBallad: His speciality.
* %%* RockStarSong: "Superstar".
* %%* SillyLoveSongs
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Achieving his greatest success in [[TheEighties the late eighties]] and [[TheNineties the early nineties]], Richard Noel Marx (born September 16, 1963) became involved in the music business at an early age, working as a backing vocalist, session musician and songwriter for artists such as Music/{{Madonna}}, Lionel Richie, Whitney Houston and Music/{{Chicago}}.

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Achieving his greatest success in [[TheEighties the late eighties]] and [[TheNineties the early nineties]], Richard Noel Marx (born September 16, 1963) became involved in the music business at an early age, working as a backing vocalist, session musician and songwriter for artists such as Music/{{Madonna}}, Lionel Richie, Richie (the man who got him into the industry), Whitney Houston and Music/{{Chicago}}.
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* YourCheatingHeart: "Hazard".
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* DarkerAndEdgier: "Hazard" deals with far darker concepts than Marx normally sings about - small town prejudice, murder, possible police corruption etc.
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* ArtisticLicenseGeography: Hazard, Nebraska, is a real place, but it's too small even to be called a town, and doesn't have a river.
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* DoubleMeaningTitle: "Hazard", yet again. [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hazard,_Nebraska Hazard, Nebraska]] is a real place.

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* EightiesHair: ... That mullet, please.



* EightiesHair: ... That mullet, please.

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* EightiesHair: ... That mullet, please.[[DeathByWomanScorned Death By Man Scorned]]: "Hazard", ''maybe''.



* [[DeathByWomanScorned Death By Man Scorned]]: "Hazard", ''maybe''.
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Achieving his greatest success in [[TheEighties the late eighties]] and [[TheNineties the early nineties]], Richard Marx became involved in the music business at an early age, working as a backing vocalist, session musician and songwriter for artists such as Music/{{Madonna}}, Lionel Richie, Whitney Houston and Music/{{Chicago}}.

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Achieving his greatest success in [[TheEighties the late eighties]] and [[TheNineties the early nineties]], Richard Noel Marx (born September 16, 1963) became involved in the music business at an early age, working as a backing vocalist, session musician and songwriter for artists such as Music/{{Madonna}}, Lionel Richie, Whitney Houston and Music/{{Chicago}}.
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* LongDistanceRelationship: "Right here waiting" is about one of these.

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* LongDistanceRelationship: "Right here waiting" Here Waiting" is about one of these.
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* [[DeathByWomanScorned Death By Man Scorned]]: "Hazard", ''maybe''.
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* BerserkButton: Being called "shameless," [[http://www.themorningnews.org/article/right-here-waiting apparently]].

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* PowerBallad

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* PowerBalladEightiesHair: ... That mullet, please.
* LongDistanceRelationship: "Right here waiting" is about one of these.
* PowerBallad: His speciality.
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* SignatureSong: Probably "Right Here Waiting".

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