The 1980s was an incredible decade for music, but two pop icons led the way with the most number-one songs. Can you name them ...

The 1980s, am I right? What a fantastic decade for music. There was new wave and post-punk and hair metal, if that's your thing. So many bands became household names whether they were worthy of ...

Depeche Mode has been one of the most popular and influential bands to emerge from the 1980s new wave movement, having sold ...

Arena rock may look different today, but AC/DC put out a ton of songs that defined the 1980s era of live rock performances.

The 1980s was an eclectic time for music. MTV brought new artists straight into your living room and hip-hop and new wave ...

There are many reasons why bands or artists can be considered underrated. Perhaps they resided in the shadow of someone else within a genre, or maybe there was a lack of mainstream appreciation.

The hair, or glam, metal bands of the 1980s remain one of the true guilty pleasures in music history. The hair spray, makeup, and catchy pop tunes touched up with distortion were made for MTV.

One of the biggest bands of the 1980s, Tears For Fears, returned to the chart on Friday with their first new studio album in nearly two decades. The Tipping Point narrowly missed out on the number ...

He says there was a period in the 1980s when Scotland, and in particular, Glasgow, became the epicentre of the UK's music scene and A&R men rushed north to sign anyone they could. Getty Images ...

In a clip from a 2007 interview for BBC TWO's Factory: Manchester From Joy Division To Happy Mondays, Benard Sumner talks about recruiting Ian Curtis for the band he was forming which would later ...

Series of documentaries looking at the careers of four titans of African-American music: Janet Jackson, Prince, Lionel Richie and Public Enemy.

In most tellings of pop music history, the 1980s were primarily the springboard for a fresh crop of stars like Madonna, Prince and Duran Duran, who embraced and defined the flashy artifice of the ...