Crafting a hit song sometimes happens immediately. "The lyrics, the strings, the chords, everything comes at the moment like a gift that is put right into your head and that's how I hear it," Michael ...

It was the year pop went crazy. 1983 shook up all of the old rules about how music worked. Suddenly, anything could happen. All the music that matters in 2023 — it kicks off somewhere here in 1983. So ...