Don Johnson
Genre: Rock/Pop
Decades Active: 80s
Actor Don Johnson was riding high on the massive success of his television series Miami Vice when he turned to pop music, making his debut with the LP Heartbeat in 1986. Scoring a Top Five smash with the title track, he also enjoyed success with the lavish full-length Heartbeat video, an extended narrative release co-starring Late Night with... [+] Read More
Glenn Frey
Genre: Rock/Pop
Decades Active: 80s, 90s
Glenn Frey is best known as one of the two most popular and longest tenured members (along with Don Henley) of the Eagles, and as an intermittently successful solo artist in the decades since that band ceased being a full-time working group. Although associated closely with the Eagles' brand of Southern California-spawned laid-back country-rock,... [+] Read More
The Blues Brothers
Genre: R&B/Soul/Urban
Decades Active: 70s, 80s, 90s, 00s
Whether celebrated as a sincere tribute or derided as a tongue-in-cheek put-on, the Blues Brothers -- Joliet Jake and his silent brother Elwood -- was among the most popular groups of the late '70s; what started as a skit on the hit NBC television sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live quickly snowballed to become a true phenomenon, complete... [+] Read More
