Every new year brings a new round of great music for us to enjoy for decades to come, but few can boast having as good a release catalogue as the year 1979. Maybe folks were trying to squeeze the last ...

The heartfelt love song topped the charts and transformed the veteran singer into an unlikely late-'70s success story.

Indeed, these are three one-hit wonders from 1979 with melodies that still echo decades later. Listening to this song, it’s ...

On April 2, 1979, dance floors across the United States pulsed to one unforgettable beat. The disco track "Dancer" by Gino Soccio climbed to the No. 1 spot on the Billboard Disco chart, marking a ...

The Smashing Pumpkins’ “1979” doesn’t sound much like the music of the 1970s. Instead, it became one of the most beloved alternative rock songs of the 1990s, even though it wasn’t supposed to be a ...

This song has a doozy of a backstory!

The coming-of-age anthem still resonates more than 30 years after its release.

During the course of 365 days, the group put out 'Overkill' and 'Bomber,' two albums that inspired everybody from Metallica to Mudhoney to play over the top Although Overkill was the band’s second ...

I happily admit I love disco. Not all of it. A few rock acts like the Rolling Stones, the Grateful Dead, and Rod Stewart failed when they tried to do it. I never cared for Abba’s version; most ...