Artists like Madonna had incredible success throughout the decade. In the '80s, she released seven of her 12 Billboard Hot ...

Synths became a lot more affordable in the 1980s, and plenty of musicians had ... synth differed greatly from traditional mainstream pop and rock instruments like the guitar and bass.

The thing with big hits is that as soon as modern pop (in its rock or any other form) was shaped (and still is) a set of musical formulas came into play to make hits out of songs. By the time we ...

Formed in 1980, the New Jersey-based pop-rock band Franke & The Knockouts seemed destined for big things. Their 1981 self-titled debut album reached No. 31 on the Billboard 200 and its lead single ...

It's officially the season of Bat for Lashes - a period of melodrama through melancholic songs, frontwoman Natasha Khan named her favourite songs.

He says there was a period in the 1980s when Scotland ... Part two of Vic Galloway's Story of Scottish Pop: Scottish Rock is on BBC Radio Scotland on Sunday 24 June at 14:00.

The band's hits include Private Eyes, Kiss On My List and Out Of Touch Iconic 80s pop rock duo Daryl Hall and ... Talking about their 1980 number one hit song, Kiss on My List, Hall said: "I ...