On the one hand, it's not uncommon for a #1 song to experience a steep decline in popularity after topping the charts...but ...

Expo 86, and again at the 2010 Olympic Games, not to mention countless shows at The Savoy and The Railway Club in her early ...

Throughout music history, there have been numerous songs to chart as hits despite being mediocre. In 1985, a song from ...

Readers sounded off on bands that got better after replacing members. Journey, Pink Floyd, and The Eagles now get their ...

It says something about Diamond’s heat in the wake of “Hot August Night” that he scored a Top 40 hit with a song from a movie ...

Every story has to start somewhere, and for rock icons Stone Temple Pilots it was in 1985 at the Fender Ballroom in Long ...

There are a lot of ways to determine a song’s success. Where it charts is just one determining factor, and sometimes it means ...

We’ve gone into our archives to find the best adverts from the 1980s - a very different era, with very different prices.

A longtime BBC host, he traveled the world in search of artists his audience “didn’t know they wanted.” Then he took an ...

John Freeman hails Erasure's under-loved debut album which was released 40 years ago, then revealing a great future in store ...

When CDs replaced vinyl, the music world feared modernity had stepped too far. But this record, proved how innovative it ...

David Allan Coe has died at the age of 86. He wrote the country music classic "Take This Job and Shove It" and was part of ...