Ally Sheedy and Molly Ringwald in a scene from the 1985 film The Breakfast Club (Credit: Universal Pictures / Getty Images). Musically, it was a year defined by two major global fundraising events for ...

In what’s now become a yearly tradition every December, I’m back ranking #1 hits from topical anniversary dates. This winter ...

It’s hard to believe 1985 was 40 years ago. In 1985, some of the best songs in country music came out, including these four songs, which will always be country music classics. The Judds had a No. 1 ...

1984 was a banner year for music in the eighties, and 1985 somehow topped it. Of course, the midway point of the decade didn’t have a Like a Virgin or Purple Rain, but it didn’t need titles like those ...

Were the '80s really the greatest decade ever in music? We posit that question on the back cover of our new book, 501 Essential Albums of the 80s (Motorbooks/Quarto Group), and certainly that case ...

Musically, it was a year defined by two major global fundraising events for famine relief, the Live Aid concert, as well as the release of ‘We Are the World,” sung by that ragtag group of musicians, U ...