In 1979, Patti Smith, at the peak of her outsider punk fame, went on the ABC television show “Kids Are People Too”—the viewership was made up almost entirely of tweens—and, given the choice of any ...

The line between reality and make-believe was a bit foggy when it came to the 1984 hit single “On the Dark Side.” It was a smash for the fictional band Eddie and the Cruisers in the movie of the same ...