Ronald Reagan was president. The Nintendo Entertainment System was released in the U.S., along with the Sony Walkman. The ...

Mix engineer Daniel Duskin has just performed a new mix of A-ha’s 1985 global smash hit Take On Me on his YouTube channel and ...

Here's a breakdown of the 15 hottest tours of 1985, including video whenever possible: ...

Forty years ago, the 1980s reached its middle period. Musicians were settled into evolving studio technology as drum machines, samplers, and synthesizers became ubiquitous. If you think of songs as ...

The track was the first song in 57 years to hit Number ... Me This Way. 1985: Jennifer Rush – The Power Of Love. Jennifer was the first female solo artist to score the biggest selling single ...

No Jacket Required and The Dream of the Blue Turtles. You can see a list of 1985's biggest and most influential rock albums below.

In celebration of the songs that have stood the test of time (for better or worse), we give you our best and worst songs of 1985 ... one of the LP’s three Top 10 hits. Yet it was, probably ...

It’s hard to believe that 1985 was 40 years ago ... of Cougar in his name—wasn’t even one of the LP’s three Top 10 hits. Yet it was, probably, the pivotal song of his career, and ...