When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. All these songs are – gulp! – celebrating their 40th birthday this year, and the What Hi-Fi? team ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Space Shuttle Challenger explodes shortly after lifting off from Kennedy Space Center, in Florida, on Jan. 28, 1986. All seven ...

Slayer terrified the PMRC, Janet Jackson seized control, and Genesis got weird on these albums that shaped a transformative year Beastie Boys in 1986. (Credit: Michel Delsol/Getty Images) From left: ...

In 1986, the world of popular music was in an incredible state of flux. The industry was looking back in a serious way for the first time — in the US, the newly established Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ...

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Diego Maradona against England and lifting the trophy Photos: Getty Images; design: Eamonn Dalton This is the 13th in a series by The Athletic looking back at the winners of each men’s World Cup.

As one reporter later recounted of Balloonfest '86: “It was like almost a volcano when it went off" Bettmann Archive/Getty Balloonfest '86 promised to raise publicity for the still-rebounding city of ...

The 1986 Topps set is a 'tweener as far as 1980s baseball cards go. Nestled between two seasons, 1985 and 1987, that brought collectors some of the decade's most pursued rookie cards, the biggest and ...

William Smith is a flesh and blood writer who hasn't seen natural sunlight in months. He spends every waking hour at his laptop producing content to satisfy the cruel algorithm and to give those who ...

It was one of the most tense and terrifying times in our country. It was like the tremulous gloom of wartime, our elders said. February 1986 was turbulent and stressful. Because he could no longer run ...