Wayne Gretzky was a secular saint in his home country of Canada. Canadians revered him as the undisputed master of their national game. Kids...

Conditions at Kennedy Space Center in Florida were anything but ideal for a Space Shuttle launch on the morning of January 28, 1986. The tem...

Aha's single "Take on Me" is one of the great pop songs of the 80s (or any decade for that matter). The video that accompanied...

1988 represented the low point of 80s music, what with the likes of Tiffany, Richard Marx, Rick Astley and Whitney Houston cluttering up the...

Michael Dukakis was doing well in the polls in the late summer of 1988. Comfortably ahead of George Bush and basking in that post-convention...

On March 11, 1985 Mikhail Gorbachev, 54, became General Secretary of the Communist Party of The Soviet Union. His ascension was hailed as th...

For me Christine McVie's contributions to Fleetwood Mac are almost always overlooked. She had a beautiful soft voice and wrote uncomplic...

Say it ain't so, Pete! Pete Rose was (is) Major League Baseball's all-time leader in hits and games played, has three World Series...

Huey Lewis and the Afterthoughts, uh, I mean the News became music superstars with the release of 1984's "Sports". Lewis himse...

Spanish Bombs is my favorite tune from the Clash's third album, the double LP classic "London Calling".  Some have said that L...