In August 1973, the Jamaican-born Clive “DJ Kool Herc” Campbell held his first block party in the Bronx, bringing the Jamaican sound system culture to America and inadvertently providing the first ...
The 80s stand as one of the most competitive eras ever in terms of artists trying to make an impact on the pop charts. It’s no wonder that some bands craved the winning formula of proven outside ...
Elton John dominated the pop charts like no other rock artist in the 70s. In fact, he did so much damage in that era that it’s easy to underrate just how much success he enjoyed in the 80s. He ...
For a brief period in the mid-1980s it seemed that the world might just be ready for Killing Joke. As post-punk made inroads into the mainstream, the hypnotic repetitions, apocalyptically portentous ...
The Singles Game is an 80s must watch! Laugh, feel nostalgic & wince, as real twenty-somethings get in over their heads and face public humiliation. A rare insight into the 80s youth culture, sexual ...
Beastie Boys and Run-DMC, Public Enemy and Salt n Pepa (Credit: Lynn Goldsmith/Corbis/VCG via Getty Images, Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images, Michael Putland/Getty Images) In August 1973, the ...