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Bruce Woolley: The Man Who Helped Kill the Radio Star
Episode 805
Some songs become hits. Others become history. And then there's "Video Killed the Radio Star," a song that practically announced the arrival of the 1…
3 hours ago
Classic Episode: Backstage at “We Are the ’80s” — 20 Years Later
Episode 804
Twenty years ago, Stuck in the ’80s was still the new kid on the podcast block. There were no smartphones recording everything, social media was bare…
3 days, 7 hours ago
When in Rome’s Andrew Mann on “The Promise,” “Human Nature” and What Comes Next
Episode 803
Few synth-pop songs from the late ’80s have enjoyed a second life quite like When in Rome’s “The Promise.”
Released in 1988, the song became the band…2 weeks, 1 day ago
Always Something There to Remind Me: Remembering Pete Byrne of Naked Eyes
Episode 802
Some episodes of Stuck in the ’80s are harder to record than others.
This week, Steve goes solo to remember Pete Byrne, the unmistakable voice of Nak…
3 weeks, 1 day ago
Live Aid Runaways: Chasing a Dream to the Biggest Concert of the ’80s
Episode 801
What if you were 16 years old in the summer of 1985, armed with little more than a Sony Walkman, a few cassette tapes and the belief that somehow — s…
1 month ago
Remembering Dolly Parton: The Songs, Stories and Legacy of an American Icon
Episode 800
There really was nobody else quite like Dolly Parton.
In this special episode of Stuck in the ’80s, we remember Dolly — the songwriter, singer, actre…
1 month, 1 week ago
Book of Love and the Synth-Pop Bands We Wish We’d Heard More From
Episode 799
Some ’80s bands sold millions of records. Some filled arenas. Some became so permanently embedded in pop culture that you can’t walk through a grocer…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Streets of Fire: Revisiting Our Tribute 15 Years Later
Episode 798
We all have that one movie from the ’80s.
Maybe yours is Back to the Future. Maybe it’s The Breakfast Club, The Goonies or Say Anything. It doesn’t n…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Paul Simon’s Graceland at 40: The Album That Changed Everything
Episode 797
Forty years ago, Paul Simon released one of the most unlikely blockbuster albums of the 1980s.
Graceland arrived on Aug. 25, 1986, blending Simon’s u…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Those Crazy Movie and TV High Schools of the '80s
Episode 796
If you could go back and spend four years at any fictional high school from the ’80s, where would you enroll?
Would you hang out with Spicoli at Ridg…
1 month, 4 weeks ago