Editing Y&T (section)

===Commercial success and brief hiatus (1984–1991)===
Y&T's sixth studio album, ''[[In Rock We Trust]]'', released in 1984, became the band's highest-charting and selling album, reaching No. 46 on the [[Billboard 200|''Billboard'' 200]]. The album produced Y&T's first big radio hit "Don't Stop Runnin'". [[Dr Pepper]] acquired the rights to use "She's a Liar" in a radio ad campaign. To date, ''In Rock We Trust'' has sold over 450,000 copies. This album was the only Y&T album to chart in Canada, reaching No. 77 on the RPM chart. The label brought in writer [[Jeff Paris (musician)|Geoffrey Leib]] for the album, the first time an external writer had been used. The success of ''In Rock We Trust'', which saw the band continuing to perform at arenas and stadiums (including opening for [[Rush (band)|Rush]] and [[Dio (band)|Dio]] on their tours for ''[[Grace Under Pressure (Rush album)|Grace Under Pressure]]'' and ''[[The Last in Line]]'' respectively, as well as shows with [[Whitesnake]], [[Twisted Sister]], [[Ratt]], [[Dokken]], and [[Night Ranger]]),<ref name="concertarchives"/><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.concertarchives.org/bands/y-t--2?page=2#concert-table|title=Y & T's Concert History|publisher=Concert Archives|access-date=May 21, 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cygnus-x1.net/links/rush/tourdates.php|title=Rush Concert Tour Dates Listing|publisher=cygnus-x1.net|access-date=May 21, 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dio.net/tour/the_last_in_line.html|title=The Last In Line tour dates|publisher=The Ronnie James Dio Pages|access-date=May 21, 2021}}</ref> and participating in the 1984 edition of [[Monsters of Rock]] at [[Donington Park]] in England,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ukrockfestivals.com/donington-1984.html|title=Monsters Of Rock . Castle Donington 1984.|publisher=ukrockfestivals.com|access-date=May 21, 2021}}</ref> gave Y&T better exposure than they'd had previously.

The band's 1985 hit "[[Summertime Girls]]", initially featured as the sole studio track on the band's first live album, ''[[Open Fire (Y&T album)|Open Fire]]'', and later also featured on their seventh (studio) album ''[[Down for the Count]]'' released later the same year, became the band's highest-charting hit to date, reaching No. 55 on the [[Billboard Hot 100|''Billboard'' Hot 100]] and No. 16 on the [[Mainstream Rock (chart)|Mainstream Rock songs chart]].<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/yt/chart-history/rtt/ |title=Mainstream Rock Songs|magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]}}</ref>  It received airplay worldwide, played frequently in the ''[[Baywatch]]'' television series, featured in several feature films (including [[Real Genius]]), received heavy rotation on [[MTV]] as well as MTV's top video playlists, and continues to get regular airplay today on [[classic rock]] radio stations throughout the United States. ''Down for the Count'' would be the band's last album for A&M, as the band grew increasingly frustrated with the lack of promotion from the label within the US. Despite successful tours with [[Mötley Crüe]] and [[Aerosmith]], and the chart success of "Summertime Girls", the label declined to release a follow-up single. On his recollection of ''Down for the Count'', Meniketti said in an interview for Metal Express Radio: ". . . it ended up being a sort of wasted record . . . it was out right when the record company didn't care about us." In present day the band still play tracks from the album in their live shows.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srP8oSOPM2o&t=353s|title=Dave Meniketti tells the story about Y&T (from 2008)|publisher=Metal Express Radio|access-date=May 11, 2021}}</ref>

In 1986, the band changed record labels to [[Geffen Records|Geffen]], and in that same year, Haze was fired for drug abuse issues (as Haze, band, and management discuss in the documentary "Y&T: On With the Show"), and was replaced by [[Jimmy DeGrasso]]; decades later when interviewed for the documentary ''Y&T: On With the Show'', Haze said, "I would've fired me, too."

In 1987, the eighth album ''[[Contagious (Y&T album)|Contagious]]'' was released. In 1989, Alves was fired for drug abuse and was replaced by Stef Burns. (DeGrasso and Burns later played together with [[Alice Cooper]] in the 1990s.) Y&T's next studio album ''[[Ten (Y&T album)|Ten]]'' was released in 1990. The album features ballads such as "Don't Be Afraid of the Dark" (the first and only single from the album), "Ten Lovers", and "Come in from the Rain", together with a few straightforward hard rock songs, including "Hard Times", "City", "Surrender", and "Goin' Off the Deep End". According to Meniketti, the video for "Don't Be Afraid of the Dark" was probably the best video they ever made, but with the onset of [[grunge]] he never once saw it on [[MTV]].<ref name="80's Metal Recycle Bin"/>

With the record company opting not to release any further singles from the ''Ten'' album, the band decided to do seven shows in California and take a break in 1991, concluding with the live album ''Yesterday & Today Live''. Shortly after the 1991 hiatus, Meniketti declined an opportunity to form a proposed 'super group' with [[Peter Frampton]].<ref name="80's Metal Recycle Bin"/>