If you were alive and paying attention to pop music in the 1980s, Susanna Hoffs was inescapable — and that was a wonderful thing. Her voice was crystalline, her charisma was magnetic, and the way she ...

The Beach Boys’ chart-topping smash, despite its popularity and success, landed on several lists ranking the most dire songs ever made.

Like many, I grew up being subjected to my parents’ favorite music. My dad constantly offered up all of his alternative and ...

While it isn’t Prince’s most avant garde effort, especially compared to his early 1980s period, it’s a fantastic album and ...

As stacked as this category was that year, two other film songs topped the Hot 100 that year and were not nominated.

The Wet Wet Wet version of the song ended up staying at the top for an entire four weeks, after its release on May 14th, 1988 ...

Throughout the early 1980s into the ’90s, Prince was leading a secret life, writing under several pseudonyms, including ...

Sometimes people are known by their full names. For example, you wouldn’t call that cheeky character from the 1980s just Ferris, would you? No, you’d call him Ferris Bueller. Well, the opposite is ...

George Jones—born in Saratoga, Texas, in 1931—joined the Marine Corps in late 1951, serving the majority of his service at Camp Pendleton in San Diego County. According to the Texas State Historical ...

If the 1970s were the decade that rock music thrashed around like a raw tuna fish on the plate of a hungry customer, the 1980s were the decade of the shark; thirstier, bolder, more intentional, out ...

If you can’t ace this one, you have to turn in your ’80s kid card (and your acid-wash jeans).