Quick Answer: Madonna True Blue arrived on June 30, 1986, her third studio album and the first record she co-wrote and co-produced top to bottom. It spawned five hit singles — “Live to Tell,” “Papa Don’t Preach,” “True Blue,” “Open Your Heart,” and “La Isla Bonita” — hit number one in a record 28 countries,…
Old school hip-hop went from Bronx block parties to the Billboard charts in ten short years. Here’s how two turntables and a microphone changed everything.
The Karate Kid Part II opened wide on June 20, 1986, and ended its first weekend with $12.6 million in the bank — a franchise record at the time, more than half a million dollars above what the original earned in its 1984 debut. By Labor Day, John G. Avildsen’s sequel had outgrossed The Karate…
By the spring of 1987, Def Leppard had spent more than three years, somewhere north of four and a half million dollars, and the better part of their twenties trying to finish a single record. The band had survived a drummer losing his left arm, a producer abandoning the project mid-sessions, a near-fatal car crash…
From a Bronx rec room in 1973 to Run-DMC selling out arenas, here’s how hip hop crawled out of NYC block parties and took over the 80s — boomboxes, breakdancing, and all.
At 11:58 PM on March 19, 1980, a DJ named Stevie Gordon leaned into the microphone aboard a rusted Panamanian coaster called the Mi Amigo and told listeners across Britain that Radio Caroline was about to go off the air. Force-ten gales were already over the gunwales. The 134-foot mast that had beamed sixteen years…
