“How did you write the story of Pretty In Pink?” Molly Ringwald once asked her director. “You told me about the Psychedelic Furs' song,” he responded. “And the title stuck in my head. I thought about your predisposition toward pink.”

Yes, music is very important to Hughes movies. Embedded in the ‘80s, but with an appeal that transcends the limits of time, the songs that accompany the tribulations of our teen tearaways are vital to each story.

What would The Breakfast Club be without Simple Minds’ ‘Don’t Forget About Me’? Or Ferris Bueller without Yello’s ‘Oh Yeah’?

Hughes obviously had a 'thank you for the music' as well, Ringwald’s Psychedelic Furs song kick-starting yet another mini masterpiece and saving him from crippling depression.

“I wrote Pretty In Pink the week after we finished Sixteen Candles,” he said at the time. “I so desperately hate to end these movies that the first thing I do when I'm done is write another one.

“Then I don't feel sad about having to leave and everybody going away. That's why I tend to work with the same people; I really befriend them. I couldn't speak after Sixteen Candles was over.”