(ThyBlackMan.com) There’s something about Sade that feels like home. Maybe it’s the velvety calm in her voice, or the way her music wraps around you like a warm, familiar blanket on a rainy day. She ...

“Some people want to fill the world with silly love songs. And what’s wrong with that?” Paul McCartney and Wings threw that question out in 1976, and thankfully a cavalcade of artists a decade later ...

She is a 52-year-old British singer who hasn’t put out an album in ten years. Yet we all instantly recognize the name Sade. No doubt, her enduring popularity is fueled by a few iconic ’80s hits. But ...

The stories behind six songs from the decade, examining George Michael's Careless Whisper, Ultravox's Vienna, Culture Club's Do You Really Want to Hurt Me, Sade's Smooth Operator, Eurythmics' Sweet ...

There is something about early '80s songs that have the power to transport us to a simpler, more care-free and wild time: In 1981, the first space shuttle, Columbia, was launched, the Cold War was ...

Welcome to the jungle. We got fun and games. The Eighties are one of the weirdest eras ever for music. It’s a decade of excess. It’s also a decade of INXS. It’s got big hair, big drums, big shoulder ...