Welcome to 1982: the year that invented pop music as we know it today. One of the most experimental, innovative, insanely abundant music years ever. Hip-hop takes over with “The Message” and “Planet ...

The Summer of 1982 is a pivotal time in pop culture history. Films like Poltergeist, E.T., Mad Max 2, Blade Runner, and TRON all hit theaters, capturing the hearts of audiences and leaving an ...

When MTV launched in August 1981, few understood how it would revolutionize the music industry. By 1982, music videos had come to define artists as much as their studio recordings. Video directors ...

John Williams has been making movie magic with his music for decades, transporting audiences on emotional cinematic journeys to a galaxy far far away, to a school for young witches and wizards, to an ...

Ah, Men At Work. This Australian band scored a pretty hefty hit with the new wave tune “Who Can It Be Now?” This song was released in May of 1982 in the United States, a year after it first dropped in ...

Remember that scene in Napoleon Dynamite where Uncle Rico buys a time machine online and tries to send himself back to his high school glory days of 1982? It obviously didn’t work, but watching these ...