Billy Squier (1980): For a moment in time, Billy Squier was everywhere, as songs like "My Kinda Lover" and "The Stroke" ruled ...

In their place were compact, polished songs that hurtled up the charts, taking the LPs with them. Every ’80s album reached No. 1 on the U.K. charts, and after Duke, the next three Genesis LPs were ...

Revisiting the year of the 1985 and the biggest college rock songs that dominated that year, presented in a classic mixtape ...

You might be surprised to find out just how many of the smash songs from the ‘80s were actually low-key covers of songs that ...

Here’s everything you need to know about one of the most beloved songs of the 80s. He told Melody Maker ... While the band isn’t exactly the one-hit wonder people remember it as – they achieved eight ...

When the Eagles initially broke up at the end of the ‘70s, it was every California cowboy for himself. As one of the group’s ...

After seeing how Mike Campbell's input revitalised Don Henley, Bob Dylan fancied a slice of the action, but was thwarted by a ...

Me listening to the Paradise soundtrack while writing this. Photo: Brian Roedel/Disney Using these covers is both a misguided choice and one of the things I appreciate most about Paradise.

“It took me ten years to finish that song!” he said. “I wrote the verses in 1974, but the chorus I had was just horrible. And ...

Genesis began the '80s in transition and ended the decade on top of the pop world. Whether that was a good or bad thing might come down to your affinity for their older, more progressive approach.