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 1985 Academy Awards were the only ceremony where all five nominees for best original song were No. 1 hits on the BIllboard Hot 100.

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

Joy, for William Prince, has never been accidental. “I try to walk through life as an ambassador for good things,” Prince tells Orlando Weekly. But joy, he admits, has also been difficult. “It was a ...

Is The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air theme song the biggest hip-hop song in history? DJ Jazzy Jeff thinks so. On Thursday (Jan. 29), 92.3's Big Boi shared a clip of an interview with DJ Jazzy Jeff, where ...

If you were an early '90s kid, there's little chance you grew up without hearing Will Smith's iconic intro to "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air" at least a hundred times. Nobody really planned for it, but ...

The impact of certain 80s artists loomed so large that other acts could piggyback off their signature sound and come away with a hit. And in terms of signature sounds in the decade, none stood out ...

Since the title song of Prince’s 1984 hit movie was featured in the finale of Netflix’s “Stranger Things” Dec. 31, “Purple Rain” is enjoying another life. The mesmerizing guitar-centric tune has seen ...

Stranger Things is one of Netflix’s most loved shows. It mixes friendship, fear, and mystery in a small town shaken by a dark parallel world called the Upside Down. Created by Matt Duffer and Ross ...

*Securing iconic music for television is famously difficult, but the appearance of Prince‘s “When Doves Cry” and “Purple Rain” in the “Stranger Things” finale represented a uniquely complex challenge.

Securing the rights to use a song in film or TV is a challenging and expensive task — and the more iconic the song, the more challenging and expensive the clearance is likely to be. So when two of ...

Here is the best metal song of each year of the 1980s, including one runner-up for all 10 years! Many will argue that there was no greater decade for heavy metal than the '80s. Sure, Black Sabbath and ...