Bad 80s music confession

When I was in year 12 (a really long time ago, not that I'll admit it) I was in a band that we named after cartoon character who resembled a short, balding neighbour of mine at the time, who used to come over and complain when we rehearsed. We wrote some really really bad songs. Actually, we really only wrote one. We recorded it in my lounge room on my 4-track recorder (anyone want to buy it? - the recorder that is, I don't think the song would be worth much, and some other people own that lounge room now). This song was so bad, I can't even bring myself to mention the name of it. But I had a big hand in writing it. I say it was bad, but I guess we weren't really earnest about our songwriting; we kind of meant it to be a complete cliché of rhyme and rhythm. That said, I don't think we really had the capacity between us to write anything in any way alternative. Our staple of music came from the local AM radio station, before JJJ made it to regional areas. We were all listening to INXS, Cold Chisel and the really cool and hard guys among us were right into V.Spy V.Spy and Hunters & Collectors. But it was a mainstream town, and this was as far as you could get from the early Minogue tunes that pervaded the airwaves. (An aside, I remember ringing up the local radio station in year 11 or so and winning a competition. My prize was anything in their top 40 singles chart, and when the DJ asked what song I'd like I said, on air, "Ummm.... I don't really like anything in your top 40") But back to our song. Four of us sat and wrote it. (There were five in the band - the four of us I'm talking about were all friends. We weren't that close to the bass player but he had the status of owning a bass and an amp so was the natural choice. He was cool, I suppose but he still has my Don Henley 'Boys of Summer' vinyl 45.) We wrote it in a free period one Friday. I think that fact alone conveys the quality of the lyrical content. We wrote two verses and a chorus but it needed a middle eight so I took it home to work on it. I knew that the 3-chord thing was a bit limiting and I'd have to try to work in a fourth or it would be just downright boring. It needed somewhere to go after the chorus resolved itself in an A-chord. Ironically, I think it was the radio that provided the inspiration. A song came on with a musical phrase that stuck in my head, so I got the guitar and worked it out. So in the key of A, the middle 8 went

Em / / / A / / / D / / / G / / /
Em / / / A / / / D7 / / / E / / /

Sheer brilliance, no? The one thing I liked about it was that it meant I had both an E minor and E major in the same song, which I thought was way cool back then but now regard as one of those classic pop-clichés I was talking about earlier. But now the confession. Where did the inspiration for that middle 8 come from (or, in other words, where did I rip the first 4 chords from)? Everyone, sing along:

'cos I wonder where you are
And I wonder what you do...

Yeah... Lionel Richie, Hello