This year sees the iconic 1980s film Back To The Future celebrating its 35th birthday. The sci-fi comedy, which stars Michael J Fox as Marty McFly and Christopher Lloyd as Doc Brown, celebrates its ...

How well do you know your 80s movies? Sure, you can tell your Breakfast Clubs from your Buellers and can quote most of The Goonies, but when the going gets really tough, do you get going? If you ...

How well do you know this era? Photo illustration by Slate. MJ and Madonna photos by Michael Putland/Getty Images; Axl photo by Marc S. Canter/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images Earlier this month we ...

A few of old-school hip-hop's finest. Photo illustration by Ellie Skrzat for Slate. Photos by Vince Bucci/Getty Images, Stringer PN/Reuters, Blake Sell/Reuters, and Mario Anzuoni/Reuters. This summer ...

National Album Day 2020 is here! And what better way to celebrate this year's 80s theme than testing your memory of some of the biggest and best acts of the decade. Can you identify each artist from ...

The blockbuster movie revolution of the 1980s didn't just put a rocket up box office receipts - it ushered in a golden age of film theme songs. Escaping from the dour, art school sensibilities of the ...

Dig out the leg warmers, it’s about to get quizzical – for our latest round of quiz questions for your at-home video calls, we’re throwing it back to the 80s. Lockdown restrictions might be slowly ...

As we slouch toward economic recovery, perhaps it would serve us well to remember the 1980s. First, because the ’80s were turbulent times, not too terribly unlike the ones we find ourselves faced with ...

A good intro theme can make or break a TV show, and it's often the case that TV shows are just as easily recognised from their intro theme as the cast of the show. Throughout the decades, TV intros ...

It’s time to dig out your leg warmers, ra-ra skirts and grab your Walkmans as BBC Four revives the classic 80s programme, Pop Quiz: The Comeback, for two specials in celebration of 80s pop music. Once ...