Sample the year’s highlights below in our list of the Top 30 Songs of 1983. 30. Billy Joel, “Uptown Girl” From: An Innocent Man Billy Joel paid tribute to the sounds of his adolescence on An ...

The song – originally released in 1983 – is told from the first person ... ranking it among the most popular songs in Green Day’s history. 11. Replacements, “Bastards of Young” (From ...

These four new wave and synth-pop classics were definitive one-hit wonders in the 1980s, and they've aged pretty well.

It ended up spending four weeks at the top of the US Billboard Hot 100 chart. The song was released on the band's fourth studio album, 1970's "Naturally." It's featured on the soundtrack of 1983's ...

We try our best to determine a pecking order for nine tracks that all could all rank among the best of the band's celebrated ...

Here are three collaborations that helped Paul McCartney add to his already incredibly successful catalog of hit songs.

Jackson was a natural video star, his era’s premiere song and dance ... Mass-appeal Top 40 radio itself made a big comeback due to this seismic shift. Beginning in early 1983 in Philadelphia ...

Elvis Costello had screwed up. It was 1984 when he headed out on a short solo tour after finishing his album “Goodbye Cruel ...

Robert Smith dismissed his band’s second-highest charting single as a boozy aberration. But it may have saved The Cure from ...

Drummer Stephen Morris has shared his memories of the “chaos” surrounding New Order’s 1983 performance on Top of the Pops ... they continued through the song. Still, something strange ...

MEDIA interest in Roddy Frame’s Aztec Camera had been building at a giddy speed before the release, in April 1983, of their debut album, ...

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