Harry Langdon/Getty; Ross Marino/Getty; Chris Walter/WireImage Everything about rock and pop music got big in the '80s. Big sounds ... Metal saw newly minted rock stars doubling down on the ...

Some of the most notable 1980s pop stars couldn't match their earlier success, resulting in them becoming more or less forgotten. A long list of 80s pop stars found runaway success with one song ...

One site, possibly Rerun the 80s, posted a music milestone of a popular soap star turned singer. This got me thinking of all the other soap stars who also became pop musicians in the 1980s.

In Can You Feel the Beat: The Lisa Lisa Story, a film named after one of her biggest songs, the pioneering '80s pop star and former ... I finally had auditions for background vocalists, I met ...

The 1980s were a great time for music, with so many iconic female singers and vocalists rising to fame. Some of the best ‘80s women’s singers include the genre’s all-time greats, such as ...

But Janet and Michael weren’t the only ‘80s ... pop artists in the press. At the time, celebrity coverage was a lawless wild west, and reporting ethics were stretched thinner than the paper ...

The Breakfast Club, of course, helped launch the careers of its young stars, who became known as the “Brat Pack,” a group of actors who defined and dominated the teen movie genre of the 80s.

McCarthy, who was in both Pretty in Pink and St. Elmo’s Fire, joined a group of burgeoning talents who would become major stars ... at the heart of a massive pop culture phenomenon.

Madonna Louise Ciccone, like Prince and Michael Jackson, was born in 1958, and in the mid-’80s fulfilled her destiny as part of the holy triumvirate of MTV-era pop stars. Of those three legends ...

In Can You Feel the Beat: The Lisa Lisa Story, a film named after one of her biggest songs, the pioneering '80s pop star and former ... I finally had auditions for background vocalists, I met ...