These story songs from the 1980s likely threw most of their listeners for a loop with those lyrical twists and turns.

DORTMUND, Germany — "Major Tom," if he was real and not a lyrical creation of 1980s German musician Peter Schilling, would be a busy man right now. He's everywhere, the esteemed Major, lauded in ...

In 1981, a radical concert was held at Berlin’s Tempodrom called “Geniale Dilletanten” (Brilliant Dilettantes). The deliberately misspelled title of the show became a catch-all phrase for an ...