The male-female duet has long been a part of the pop music scene. But perhaps no era featured this type of song quite like the 1980s. It helped that many popular films of the era required just such a ...

BBC Radio 2 listeners have been voting on their favourite duets from the 1980s, and today we can reveal the winner is Fairytale Of New York, by The Pogues and Kirsty MacColl (1987). Under Pressure by ...

Maybe there was a better era for love songs. But it certainly didn't feel that way. Everything about the 1980s and its music was big. The blockbuster pop album became a regular thing. Various genres ...

D’Angelo, who died Tuesday at the age of just 51, was indisputably a musical genius, but he didn’t leave much behind: Just ...

Films like Top Gun and Do the Right Thing offered worthy standalone albums, existing as great works beyond the big screen. These movies, and the songs that helped shape them, also endure alongside ...

Paul McCartney began the ’80s in much the same position as he’d entered the ’70s: He released a home-recorded solo album after a blockbuster band had broken up. Wings had been the portrait of pop-rock ...

Coming off the best Pretenders album since the ’80s, Chrissie Hynde resumes her side career with a fourth (or fifth, ...