“I got a call from Burt Bacharach: ‘Can you come to the studio right now?’ So my friend has to move his car so that I can get out – and he runs over my dog!”: How a singer’s beloved pet cheated death during the making of a star-studded ’80s No.1

Richard Page of Mr. Mister in 1986.

Mr. Mister frontman Richard Page was flying high in the mid-’80s – but sometimes there are victims of success, and in this case it was Page’s pet dog Banjo who almost paid the ultimate price.

In December 1985, Mr. Mister had a No.1 hit in the US with the ballad Broken Wings. Just three months later they repeated the trick with the anthem Kyrie.