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What do the following have in common? (Name the common theme)

1.
a: Where Europe was leaving for in the Final Countdown?
b: Who was burning like a silver flame for Bananarama?
c: The goddess of love that she was?

I'm gonna take an educated guess and say Venus (?).

2.
a: On film for Duran Duran?
b: had red lips and finger tips for Motley Crue?
c: Ain't nothing but trouble for Will Smith?

Girls, of course!

3.
a: What the Lambada was a forbidden one of?
b: How Leonard Cohen wanted you to get him to the end of love.
c: What Lionel Ritchie did on the ceiling.

Dance

Well I hope I got those right. I'll take a look at the comments after this is posted and see if I did.