My favorite 80s band is Men At Work. Saw Colin Hay live in Manchester (here in the UK) last Saturday and he was superb, just one guy, one acoustic guitar, great songs and between-song stories that Billy Connolly would be proud of, lol. One story he told was that Australians are the only people who can tell you that they liked your gig while still sounding like they want to fight you - "I'm comin' back tomorrow night, and I'm bringin' seven of my f**kin' mates"
The guy can shred too when he wants to, with a clean sound, but he played some killer solos on the MAW stuff, I thought it was all the other guitarist but they both solo'd. There's a solo on a song called "I Can See It In Your Eyes" on their "Business As Usual" album that really rips.
This whole 80s pop rock amnesty we're having here is very different from what things were like in the UK in the 80s, lol. The town I lived in was like THRASH TOWN! and anything less was seen as wimpy or worse. I remember a guy coming into a youth club I used to go to, wearing a Bon Jovi t shirt - he would have gotten less dirty looks if he'd come in wearing a dress, lol, because they were a GIRLS BAND!
Such things were listened to in secret, and were only permissible at weddings or similar occasions, where that was likely to be the closest thing to metal that the DJ would have.
The other guitar player in the band I'm in was Bolton's only glam rocker back then, which must have taken balls of steel. Apparently it was worth all the mockery cos chicks dug it, lol.