With giant perms, big shoulder pads, Members Only jackets, and fat wallets, the 1980s was a deceptively prosperous time. Break from those 80s stereotypes and dig deeper into the Decade of Greed with ...

The effects of such 1984 titles as ‘Ghostbusters’, ‘Beverly Hills Cop’, and ‘Gremlins’ are still felt in popular culture ...

You may think your brain is already brimming with entertainment knowledge. Your friends call you a walking, talking ...

It's now 35 years since we said goodbye to 1980s but they're still fondly remembered ... dancing with friends and having a few drinks in popular nightclubs across the city centre and beyond.

The 1980s was also the decade of the VHS, when sharing and consuming the latest ‘video nasties’ at home became truly viable, not to mention desirable to most people. For a generation of Gen-Xers, ...

A 1980s pop legend has been forced to postpone some of her tour dates after a health scare. As the conspicuous consumption of the 1980s shaded into the more introspective Nineties, a wave of femal ...

From toys to television and fashion to film, Mental Floss uncovers the people, places, and things that make pop culture tick (past and present).

Ronald Reagan may have been known as ‘The Great Communicator,’ but rap artists don’t view his legacy through such rose-colored glasses. A professor of Black studies and history takes a ...

But now the Glasgow singer-songwriter has turned to an unlikely source of inspiration for her latest material - the anthemic sounds of 1980s pop music. She has headed in a new direction with her ...