IT was the decade that spawned some of the biggest music stars ever to grace the planet. Now a new book looks back at how the 1980s was a non-stop jukebox of pop and rock hits, from Madonna to ...

The artist born Prince Rogers Nelson was taking a nap in the back seat of a pink-and-white 1964 Mercury Montclair when the idea for the song that became Little Red Corvette first came to him. It was ...

From girlhood anthems to genre-bending art pieces, the three songs from the 1980s below predicted what pop music would sound like today.

Producer Andrew Watt recalls what Jagger told him when he happened to be wearing a Prince T-shirt in the studio ...

Viv Prince, the influential drummer for British Invasion band The Pretty Things, has died. Jack White shared the sad news of ...

The 80s were rich with characters, especially in the world of classic rock music. These are three 80s rockers who wrote songs for others.

The drummer was legendary for his wild onstage antics.

Recently, some colleagues and I got into a discussion about the theme song to “St. Elmo’s Fire,” the 1985 movie starring Demi Moore, Rob Lowe, and the rest of the Brat Pack. My boss hated John Parr’s ...

Superheroes, sci-fi, funny animals... you name it, there was probably a Saturday morning cartoon revolving around it. Here ...

One of the most hard-driving rock songs of the 1980s about fast cars and fast women is Van Halen's 1984 hit "Panama." The song has a bit of a tale that made it stand out when we compiled our summer ...