Many of the bands of the British New Wave developed a passion for American soul music. After Spandau Ballet’s popularity as a dance band started to wane, Martin Kemp decided to lean in a more soulful ...

Let’s be honest: Love songs always hit right in the feels. A ballad can transform from a regular song into the soundtrack of your relationship—whether you’re celebrating your 25th anniversary or just ...

The male-female duet has long been a part of the pop music scene. But perhaps no era featured this type of song quite like the 1980s. It helped that many popular films of the era required just such a ...

The 1980s pulsed with an electric energy that transformed not just music, but the entire cultural landscape of ...

Any devout ‘80s music fan knows that hearing “Beat It,” “Like a Virgin,” “All Night Long (All Night)” or “Dancing in the Dark” incessantly doesn’t exactly fulfill that craving for nostalgia. Radio ...

The ‘80s—in all of its hair-crimping, shoulder-pad-wearing, and neon-forward glory—produced so many iconic songs that it’s almost impossible to rally them all up. It was also a time of wild variety, ...