Category: 1980s

19811981

Photo: “Tainted Love” is a song composed by Ed Cobb, formerly of American group the Four Preps, which was originally recorded by Gloria Jones in 1964.  It attained worldwide fame after being covered and reworked by British synthpop duo Soft

19851985

Photo: “West End Girls” by English synth-pop duo Pet Shop Boys and also written by Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe, was released twice as a single. The song’s lyrics are concerned with class and the pressures of inner-city life which

19891989

Photo: More than three decades ago, Madonna was already one of the biggest, most controversial pop stars on the planet, but things went next-level with Like A Prayer, the first single to be taken from her fourth studio album of