Musically, it was a year defined by two major global fundraising events for famine relief, the Live Aid concert, as well as the release of ‘We Are the World,” sung by that ragtag group of ...
Ronald Reagan was president. The Nintendo Entertainment System was released in the U.S., along with the Sony Walkman. The Titanic wreckage was discovered. The ill-fated New Coke made its debut.
What were best rock songs of 1985? What better way to share that with you than taking you back in time and using the method in which we often shared what music we loved with others - through a ...
Queen - One Vision (Extended) 1985 [Official Video] James Taylor ... The song was hailed as one of the best Martin Luther King songs by Elvis Costello, who said that Simon’s song “rejects ...
Heavy music was at war with itself in 1985 — and from the conflict emerged a slew of groundbreaking albums from one of hard rock and metal's most consequential years. Our list of the Top 20 ...
and hit the Billboard Hot 100 top spot following Paul’s performance at Live Aid in Wembley that summer. Tears for Fears were another popular name celebrating a sophomore album in 1985, and ‘Everybody ...
Our list of the 100 Best Protest Songs spans nearly a century and includes everything from pre-World War II jazz and Sixties folk to Eighties house music, 2000s R&B, and 2020s Cuban hip-hop.
Yello’s best songs have had an enormous influence on techno ... era Pink Floyd on his work but “Desire,” which opened the 1985 album Stella, has a beautiful, extended guitar solo that ...