Recorded in 1984 for the late diva’s classic album, this newly unearthed lung-buster could pass for a particularly banal ...

The hugely successful trio helped launched the career of singers such as Kylie Minogue, Rick Astley and Sinitta.

Ask most horror fans about the genre’s best decade, and the overwhelming majority will likely agree that it’s the 1980s. With ...

Sir Paul McCartney and John Lennon's songwriting was the creative driving force behind The Beatles' success. Under the joint ...

Ronald Reagan was president. The Nintendo Entertainment System was released in the U.S., along with the Sony Walkman. The ...

"Whether you’re nostalgic for the music of the 1980s or are discovering it for the first time, one thing is for certain: ...

The radio session might as well have been invented with idiosyncratic but influential post-punk shamblers Television ...

From Madonna and Stevie Wonder to Bruce Springsteen and Kate Bush, discover which 1980s music legends have the biggest ...

The hits we remember from the 1980s can be split into two categories: the ones we continue to love, and those we continue to ...

Forty years ago, the 1980s reached its middle period. Musicians were settled into evolving studio technology as drum machines, samplers, and synthesizers became ubiquitous. If you think of songs as ...

It's a balls to the walls, big-hearted but empty-headed jukebox musical that celebrates the 1980s hair bands. Guaranteed to ...

Last week my writer-daughter, Beth, wrote a story about her MTV years. She recalled the 1980s watching music videos.