Sometimes all you need to keep going are a few good pop songs. Sometimes that means looking to 1985 to hear these three great ones.
A year of Cold War conflict, industrial action, and political pop, 1985 was a landmark year for pop music, but which songs held the number-one spot for longest?
Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale’s time travelling movie is given a musical theatre makeover with BACK TO THE FUTURE THE MUSICAL.
As he has throughout his international tour, Springsteen opened with "Born in the U.S.A.," backed by the thunderous drumming ...
When that version hit American TV in the summer of 1985, everything changed. Suddenly, the world couldn’t get enough of ...
Roth, 70, was the original lead singer of Van Halen. He was present from 1974 to 1985, and later returned for brief reunions.
The Commodores needed to bounce back from the loss of Lionel Richie. "Nightshift" restored them to previous heights.
When Bob Geldof barked “give us your f***ing money” at a television audience of 1.9 billion in 1985, it was a blunt demand backed by guitars, satellites, and a moral certainty that music could feed ...
Mr Stirling is a youth and community engagement worker describing the Broadwater Farm estate in north-east London, where, in ...
Critics initially panned it, but public love for the musical with songs like “One Day More” and “On My Own” has kept it going ...
MTV, the world's first 24-hour music broadcaster, is to stop showing rolling pop videos in the UK after almost 40 years when ...
“She didn’t record it because it sounded like a hit,” says Billy Steinberg, who co-wrote the stark, slow-moving ballad with ...