George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley of Wham! in 1985. Hits like theirs are quite soothing, according to a new study. Getty Images When love — or life’s other stresses — tears us apart, irresistible ...

The 1980s might be best known for power ballads and synth-y jams, but there are quite a few nostalgic love songs from that ...

The '80s were a great time for music, and many pop-punkers were just discovering music in their youth around that time, so it makes sense you'd find plenty of pop-punk '80s covers. There's no other ...

These pop-punk bands have paid homage to the '80s by covering songs like "Don't You (Forget About Me)" and "Hungry Like the Wolf." There's no other time quite like the 1980s, which is arguably the ...

Dave Ball, the production half of groundbreaking Eighties synth duo Soft Cell, best remembered for their 1981 New Wave classic cover of “Tainted Love,” died on Wednesday of natural causes. He was 66. ...

America was starting to lose control of its music in the 80s. Their last Top 40 hit helped them get some of it back.

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Soft Cell's final album was inspired by the 'sounds" in late bandmember Dave Ball's head during his hospital stays.

Big hair, bigger hits…the 80s were undeniably one of the best decades for pop music, giving us track after track of synth-laden bops that remain iconic today. But as the nineties paved way for a more ...

You can’t think of the 1980s without thinking of the mall, and you can’t think about the mall or music without thinking of Tiffany, one of the, if not the, decade’s most-popular teen performers, who ...

The thing about soft rock is that it was never an exclusive genre. Cross-pollinating among pop, rock, country rock and, especially, adult contemporary music of the day, the best soft rock records ...

Beloved ‘80s Pop Queen Pays Tribute to 'Incredible Icons' With Throwback Photos originally appeared on Parade. It’s been a sad week filled with celebrity deaths, including Ozzy Osbourne,Hulk Hogan, ...