'80s Week: After Hollywood’s years of experimenting with electronic music, a new invention changed the sound of cinema. When Alfred Hitchcock fired the composer behind “Vertigo” and “Psycho” over ...

"Waiting for a Girl Like You" was featured on Foreigner’s 1981 album 4. The song peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard charts.

Rock ‘n’ roll is dead. It was crushed under the leathery $400 heel of a record exec as he blithely made his way out of a Los Angeles restaurant. Or, ravaged by cancer, it succumbed with Joey Ramone at ...

One of the greatest things about early ’80s cinema was the synth scores so many films had. Movies like The Terminator, and of course anything John Carpenter did, spring to mind. And with shows like ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Every generation naturally feels as if the music of their youth was the best era of them all. As more time elapses, however, it ...

A heavy dose of ’80s pop awaits music fans attending the Retro Futura tour, which stops in Cleveland this week for a show at the Masonic Auditorium. Topping the bill are Howard Jones and former ...

Back in 1981, “Don’t You Want Me” by The Human League was an insanely big hit. It’s not an overly complex song, either. Martin Rushent, who produced the song, added a drum machine, a very basic synth, ...

As with many strains of music, the ’80s U.K. synth-pop scene can be traced back to David Bowie. In 1976, Thin White Duke-era Bowie released Station To Station, which embellished his soul-boogie ...