But it’s possible nowhere in the entertainment industry was quite as exciting as the world of music in the mid-1980s. Here’s a round-up of some of 1985’s greatest hits which are turning 40 this year..
From those who toiled behind the scenes to those who were performers themselves but never made the marquee, here are just a few of the secret songwriters responsible for some of the greatest hits.
“[The song] was really a left-field hit … one of the few disks in recent years with a non-English lyric to reach the top,” Billboard wrote at the time. In the 2020s, such hits are ...