In the late 1980s, pop music was at its apex. The training wheels had come off. It was time to take the genre for a real spin and show what it could do. And in 1987, there were a number of artists who ...

Bruce Springsteen hadn’t really dug too deep into the love-song well in the first 15 years or so of his recording career. Once he did address the topic, he went all-in on the good and bad (mostly bad, ...