Was 1987 the height of pop music? It just might have been the best year ever. Check out these three 1987 pop songs we love.

Back in the mid-1980s, Cyndi Lauper was a Grammy Award-winning radio and MTV pop superstar when she got a call from actress Sigourney Weaver. Weaver was preparing to play Melanie Griffith’s villainous ...

Over the past decade, pop and modern hip-hop have completely taken over the music industry in record sales and on music ...

Classic rock may have been on the decline in terms of popularity in the 1980s, but a handful of tracks proved to be popular ...

The “Strut” singer had creative relationships with Prince and Nile Rodgers and experimented in different genres. A pair of ...

In one of his Spectator A.M. letters this week, our Dan Flynn noted that Taylor Swift occupies eight of the top ten slots on ...

Hole’s Celebrity Skin era saw Courtney Love take a fearless leap from grunge to polished rock, redefining the band and ...

David Ball, half of the synth-pop duo Soft Cell, who enjoyed a massive and enduring 1980s hit with their cover of 'Tainted ...

Dave Ball, one half of the pioneering 1980s synth-pop band Soft Cell, has died at the age of 66. Alongside singer Marc Almond ...

You may require a dash of irony—though not always—to admit you now kind of like these overplayed pop songs from the 1980s.

Soft Cell star Dave Ball, praised as a “wonderfully brilliant musical genius” by his bandmate Marc Almond, has died aged 66.

Iranian pop music from the 70s is known for its sophistication. With lyrics rich in layers and metaphors, experiments in ...