Released in 1986, Licensed to Ill is widely considered one of the best debuts in popular music history. The album captures the rowdy spirit of 1980s youth culture and helped bring rap music to a ...

Every so often, a pop star emerges with an iconic debut album. This is not an easy feat to accomplish; however, when it does happen, it transforms these up-and-coming artists into global superstars.

Can you name these ’70s pop hits from a single line? The 1970s represented a vibrant and extraordinarily diverse era for popular music, producing an incredible range of sounds that reflected the ...

Justin Lewis has set out to tell a history of pop music not chronologically, but day by day from 1 January to 31 December, uncovering important – or sometimes delightfully unimportant – things that ...

Introduction: the importance of music to people / Rudolf E. Radocy -- Popular music as politics and protest / Jerome Rodnitzky -- "Blues what I am": blues consciousness and social protest / Fred J.