There were two types of kids in the 1970s and 1980s, those who were on the bike doing a jump, and those who were lying on the ground being jumped over.

Diane Franklin discusses her iconic curls and the mindset that's allowed her to achieve great success across a 3-decade career...that's just beginning!

Over the past few years a general nostalgia for the 1980s has infiltrated music, film, and television. I deeply love those gated reverb drums of the '80s - you know that punchy percussive sound popularized by Phil Collins and Prince? So for my second episode of Vox Pop’s Earworm I spoke with two Berklee College of Music professors, Susan Rogers and Prince Charles Alexander, to figure out just how that sound came to be, what makes it so damn punchy, and why it’s back.

The prototypical party-nerd in ’80s movies has managed to carve a career far beyond it–the highlights of which he recounts in a new memoir.

English rock band of the 1970s–1980s.

The design phenomenon that defined the decade.

The design phenomenon that defined the decade.

The influence of the Pictures Generation, a loosely affiliated Reagan-era movement of New York Artists, continues to resonate today.

80's music

In the 1980s, many politicians were convinced there were devious, secret messages hidden inside popular records.