The 1980s pulsed with an electric energy that transformed not just music, but the entire cultural landscape of America. This was the decade when MTV revolutionized how we consumed music, when ...

The 1980s are a rich text of classic songs that topped the Billboard charts and shaped culture along the way. Stacker ranked the top 25 hits of the '80s based on their overall popularity.

During the 1980s, a plethora of British and European artists were exposed on MTV and radio in America. It was a little trickier for artists from Down Under. While certain artists like AC/DC, INXS, ...

Paul McCartney began the ’80s in much the same position as he’d entered the ’70s: He released a home-recorded solo album after a blockbuster band had broken up. Wings had been the portrait of pop-rock ...

The genius of the Inspector Gadget theme sits in its simplicity. Catchy, upbeat, direct with an underlying tone of goofiness, ...

The 1980s were packed with iconic films, and many of them feature songs that defined the decade. Some were previously released records that played during a particular point in the film and created an ...

You know you’re making it big in the world when you get an adjective named after you. The term “Beatlesque” was coined to refer to any piece of music that could be considered an homage, even if ...

Picture this: It's December. You turn on your car radio. The first few synth-pop notes of "Last Christmas" by Wham! start playing. What do you do? Why, you turn the volume up and you sing every single ...

"Torn" was an earworm stuck in the collective heads of anyone near a radio in the late '90s thanks to Australian singer and ...

It’s been over 40 years since Men Without Hats told the world it was safe to dance -with or without your friends- and there seems to be more dancing than ever these days KTLA recently caught up with ...