On social media, the icon's Instagram account marked 43 years since her fourth, self-titled studio album came out. "Released ...

'80s Funk Icon, 72, Dazzles With Rare Red Carpet Appearance originally appeared on Parade. Charlie Wilson just proved that being cool is simply part of his DNA. On June 9, 2025, the 25th annual BET ...

Bruno Mars and Mark Ronson's 2014 hit "Uptown Funk" is the subject of a lawsuit from a 1980s funk band that says they copied their work. TMZ reports that the two artists are being sued by members of ...

What The Gap Band did on Seventies and Eighties dance-floor jams like “Oops Upside Your Head” and “Burn Rubber” was not so different from what Bruno Mars and ...

LOS ANGELES (CN) - A little-known '80s funk band filed a copyright complaint against record producer Mark Ronson and singer-songwriter Bruno Mars over their 2014 hit "Uptown Funk." Guitarist Larry ...

Suggesting one of the key drawbacks of writing a song that attempts to capture everything great about ’70s and ’80s funk, and then distill it down into one tight, commercial little package, Mark ...

When is a hit song more than just a bragging rights with royalties? For Ricky Reed, it was when creating the retro-funk banger “Juice” with Lizzo reminded him why he got into the music biz in the ...

Brixton four-piece Baytrees have been bubbling away for a few years now and each passing release seems to distill their sound to something even purer. With a keen ear trained to classics from ‘70s and ...

Sometimes heartstrings can be broken, but that doesn’t stop Silk Sonic from tugging on them. Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak are celebrating Valentine’s Day with a trip to the Eighties on their new ...