This month in pop september 1984

13 Four years before his first hit, the rapper MC Hammer releases his non-charting debut album, Feel My Power. 23 Boris Gardiner starts a three-week run at No.1 on the UK Singles Chart with I Wanna Wa

Queen took Live Aid by storm when they ran on to the stage at Wembley to perform their greatest hits – so why do Brian May and Roger Taylor recall the band being so apprehensive beforehand?

A brilliant new documentary reflects on the world’s biggest music concert 40 years on…

6 JULY SUNDAY

If not quite the moon landing or the shooting of JFK, 13 July 1985 remains a day on which most people who were alive remember exactly where they were – a day marked by a seismic social and cultural sh

How punk attitude and minimalist soul grooves took the smoothest operator from London’s club scene to global success