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Richard Marx After Hours

by Leo Sidran
October 24, 2026

For a period of time in the late 1980s, it was nearly impossible to turn on pop radio without hearing a song by Richard Marx. One of the most commercially successful singer-songwriters of his generation, Marx's music helped define the sound of late-'80s pop and rock ballads. Songs like “Right Here Waiting" and, later, “Now and Forever" became so ubiquitous that they could almost be taken for granted. Classics hiding in plain sight, but often coming out after ...