Jeff Cornell is a veteran music and entertainment writer, who has contributed to Variety, Billboard, Loudwire, The Hollywood Reporter, and MTV. The 1980s was a decade of ambition, glamour, innovation ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Portrait of American rock band Bon Jovi backstage before a performance, Illinois, early March, 1987. Pictured are, from left, ...

Stranger Things reignited '80s synth-pop nostalgia, bringing big hooks and neon back. Underrated '80s bands - Romeo Void, The Plimsouls, Wall of Voodoo and others - shaped pop and MTV. Many scored MTV ...

"Money for Nothing" by Dire Straits, "One" by Metallica, and "Here I Go Again" by Whitesnake are among the best rock music videos of the 1980s.

Stacker scoured Billboard charts from the '80s and chose 25 of the top bands whose music became the soundtrack of the decade.

One of the most important aspects of the 80s music scene is how it more tangibly shaped genres that had started to emerge in the 70s. Specifically, there were a lot of rock and rock-adjacent bands ...

Ah, the '80s—a time when hair was big, neon was a fashion statement, and rock music was king! We had legends like Van Halen and U2 blasting through our boomboxes, but not every band from that glorious ...