Ally Sheedy and Molly Ringwald in a scene from the 1985 film The Breakfast Club (Credit: Universal Pictures / Getty Images). Musically, it was a year defined by two major global fundraising events for ...

The year 1985 delivered unforgettable anthems from Madonna, Prince, and Whitney Houston while MTV dominated pop culture with groundbreaking music videos. Can you identify these iconic hits from a ...

Kate Bushmight be known for the '70s and '80s era, but one of her most iconic songs didn't reach its peak on the music charts ...

What were the best college rock songs of 1985? We were still six years away from alternative rock becoming a more mainstream format, but college radio stations were quite essential in getting some of ...

In the mood for some killer tunes from 1985? That was a pretty successful year for pop and rock music, and more than a few enduring hits made it to the top of the Billboard Hot 100 chart and our ...

It isn't really true that everything was bigger in the '80s, but the decade did find us embracing excess in a number of ways — including hefty shoulder pads, piled-high hair, and absolutely massive ...

You’d probably be surprised to learn just how many smash songs from the 80s were low-key cover versions. In most cases, the songs didn’t do much the first time ...

In what’s now become a yearly tradition every December, I’m back ranking #1 hits from topical anniversary dates. This winter we’ll be doing 1975, 1985, 1995, 2005, and 2015, and I’ll be ranking every ...