Working for the Weekend

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"Working for the Weekend" was a song released in 1981 on the now famous rock band Loverboy's second album Get Lucky. The song contained more of a pop feel than the other songs that the band produced, but this new sound proved to generate a lot of success, as the song reached #29 on the charts in January 1982.^{[citation needed]}

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Was featured in a Saturday Night Live sketch involving Chris Farley and Patrick Swayze auditioning for Chippendales.
Was featured in the movie Click as Terry Crews' character can be seen in his car happily singing along with it as Adam Sandler's character looks on, visibly unnerved.
Was featured in the Ben Stiller movie Zoolander.
Was featured in a Diet Pepsi commercial where the man in the ad wishes he could have his old, skin-tight jeans from the 1980s once again.
Appeared in the 2002 videogame Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, playing on Rock station V-Rock.
Is played after the Philadelphia Phillies win on Friday nights at home.
Is one of the '80s tunes that can be heard in the arcade game compilation Namco Museum 50th Anniversary Arcade Collection, for the PS2, Xbox, GameCube and PC.
Was played by many American radio stations at 5 pm on Friday afternoons to signal the end of the workweek and the beginning of the weekend.

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Working for the Weekend lyrics

Studio Albums
Loverboy
Mike Reno \| Paul Dean \| Scott Smith \| Doug Johnson \| Matt Frenette
Loverboy \| Get Lucky \| Keep It Up \| Lovin' Every Minute of It \| Wildside \| Six
Compilations
Big Ones \| Loverboy Classics \| Temperature's Rising \| Super Hits \| Live, Loud, and Loose
Singles
Turn Me Loose \| The Kid Is Hot Tonight \| Working for the Weekend \| When It's Over \| Hot Girls in Love \| Queen of the Broken Hearts \| Lovin' Every Minute of It \| Dangerous \| This Could Be the Night \| Lead a Double Life \| Heaven in Your Eyes \| Notorious \| Too Hot