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Although not as commercially successful as its predecessor as it was only certified Gold by the RIAA while his self-titled debut album had already been certified Platinum by the time of the release of Another Page, the third single, "Think of Laura" reached #9 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1984.

Think of Laura

One of the program's supercouples, Luke and Laura, were quite popular at the time, and the song came to be associated with the character Luke's love for Laura, who had been missing for several months.

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Cross allowed ABC to use his song in this context; however, he has stated that he wrote "Think of Laura" not in reference to the television characters, but to mourn the death of Denison University college student Laura Carter who was killed when she was struck by a stray bullet fired over a block away, during an altercation between four men.

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The song became popularized when the American television network ABC began playing "Think of Laura" in reference to characters on the soap opera General Hospital.

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