For a particular group of Generation X pop music fans, this summer concert season will be a trip back in time to 40 years ago courtesy of Culture Club, Berlin and Howard Jones. Starting this Thursday, ...

Forty years after its release, Berlin’s Count Three & Pray remains a fascinating album because its biggest success, “Take My Breath Away”, also exposed the creative divisions within the band.

Though numerous genres of music found momentum in the 1980s – post-punk, early hip-hop, thrash metal, soft rock, dance-pop – the decade has become synonymous with electronic sounds and synthesizers, ...