Mix engineer Daniel Duskin has just performed a new mix of A-ha’s 1985 global smash hit Take On Me on his YouTube channel and ...

Mix engineer Daniel Duskin has just performed a new mix of A-ha’s 1985 global smash hit Take On Me on his YouTube channel and ...

Ronald Reagan was president. The Nintendo Entertainment System was released in the U.S., along with the Sony Walkman. The ...

Along with the still-relevant big names found in the below list of the Top 40 Songs of 1975, which were chosen by the UCR ...

But it’s possible nowhere in the entertainment industry was quite as exciting as the world of music in the mid-1980s. Here’s a round-up of some of 1985’s greatest hits which are turning 40 this year..

In celebration of the songs that have stood the test of time (for better or worse), we give you our best and worst songs of 1985 ... one of the LP’s three Top 10 hits. Yet it was, probably ...

It’s hard to believe that 1985 was 40 years ago ... of Cougar in his name—wasn’t even one of the LP’s three Top 10 hits. Yet it was, probably, the pivotal song of his career, and ...

As he did with so many aspects of the music world throughout his career, Bob Dylan managed to change the game with his ...

Heavy music was at war with itself in 1985 — and from the conflict emerged a slew of groundbreaking albums from one of hard rock and metal's most consequential years. Our list of the Top 20 ...

From Prince to Joni Mitchell and Macca to the Bee Gees, the stars who were in such a creative purple patch that they had classics going spare and shopped them elsewhere.

From those who toiled behind the scenes to those who were performers themselves but never made the marquee, here are just a few of the secret songwriters responsible for some of the greatest hits.

Forty years ago, the 1980s reached its middle period. Musicians were settled into evolving studio technology as drum machines, samplers, and synthesizers became ubiquitous. If you think of songs as ...