and music television. While plenty of bands or artists from that decade are re-forming to make a little money off this retro obsession, other prominent groups from the '80s are still going strong.

Last month, we started looking at essential Missouri albums by decade. Here are six great '80s records that rose up from ...

The 1980s is inspiring pop music once again - and influencing artists who weren't even born ... "For me the definitive 80s sound is a splashy snare and a kick drum with a lot of kick," says ...

He became one of the most successful soul/R&B artists of the 1980s. Very few people even realized Billy Ocean had been recording for nearly a decade before massive crossover smashes like "Suddenly" ...

Originally staged in Hamburg, Germany in 1987, 'Luna Luna' sat in storage containers untouched for over 30 years before being restored.

In the mid-1970s and ‘80s in SoCal, bands like Steely Dan, the Doobie Brothers, and Toto blended jazz, R&B, and pop to create a new soft style: yacht rock.