An Evening with Richard Marx

Wherever you go, whatever you do, Richard Marx will be right there waiting for you… on your local ’80s pop station. Sort of comforting, isn’t it? With his mane of lustrous curls and No. 1 hits like “Hold On to the Nights,” “Satisfied” and, of course, “Right Here Waiting,” Marx became one of the decade’s most reliable balladeers, and those songs remain crystalline time capsules of that era’s penchant for unabashed musical sentiment. He really was a titan of the subgenre: In fact, Marx’s first seven singles all cracked the top five of the Billboard charts, a feat no other solo artist had accomplished at the time.