There was a lot of wonderful music released Down Under in the ‘80s, and it’s hard to say why some of it didn’t break through.

In this sidebar to our Greatest Pop Stars by Year article series, we look at how Phil Collins showed how a different sort of ...

Three major elements helped ZZ Top build their MTV mystique (which ... “Take on Me” became one of the ‘80s most recognizable hits. Meanwhile, the music video remains a landmark piece of ...

For 41 years, “Girls Just Want to Have Fun” has endured as an anthem of empowerment. Singer Cyndi Lauper’s 1983 breakthrough was originally written by Robert Hazard from a male perspective. Lauper ...

Bruuuuuce had no problem playing at pop’s highest level in the mid-’80s, when his Diamond-selling Born in the U.S.A. album ...

Rick Rubin became famous in the ’80s as the producer of some of the greatest hip-hop and rock records of that decade - from ...

All of the artists on our list of Rock's Greatest '70s to '80s Reinventions made changes at the dawn of a new decade. Some of them were already in the midst of an evolution, and they simply ...

Eighties pop icon Tiffany Darwish is unrecognisable decades after her number one hit ... top 10 tracks, such as All This Time and her Beatles cover I Saw Him Standing There, have become beloved ...

The best upbeat 80s anthems, of course ... a rock'n'roll singer who enjoyed a string of Top 10 hits in the late 50s. Despite the title, Kids in America was only a modest hit Stateside - Kim ...

Rick Rubin became famous in the ’80s as the producer of some of the greatest hip-hop and rock records of that ... We did seven one-off singles and we got picked up by CBS, purely because we'd sold a ...