Grab your Walkman headphones and steer that Delorean straight for the golden age of hip-hop, metal, and indie rock.

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As the 80s unfolded, both pop music and songs by women rose up the ranks of the Hot 100. These are three pop tracks that hit No. 1 in 1987.

Fast forward to 2013, when Lauper was now the Tony Award-winning composer/lyricist for the Broadway musical “Kinky Boots.” ...

Out of the many thousands — surely tens of thousands — of albums I’ve listened to in my time, I can’t recall one that had me ...

The new lineup – Stewart, Wood, drummer Kenney Jones, and bassist Ronnie Lane – went on to release four albums, including A ...

Remember humming along to those infectious tunes from the 1980s, the ones that got stuck in your head for days? You probably ...

Simply Red lead singer Mick Hucknall is well aware of the legends that follow him around. The English singer and songwriter, 65, whose band is known for iconic songs like “Holding Back the Years,” is ...

CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as "The ...

If there’s anything that defines music in the 21st century, it’s constant change. We live in an era when your next favorite song could come from anywhere — all over the stylistic map, all over the ...

The 1980s were a transformative era in pop music. Musicians were moving away from the disco genre of the '70s and decided to innovate with bolder sounds. It was a time in which synthesizers, ...

The 1980s pulsed with an electric energy that transformed not just music, but the entire cultural landscape of America. This was the decade when MTV revolutionized how we consumed music, when ...