The fusion of gospel, pop, R&B, and soul contributed greatly to the success of Motown Records. It allowed its writers and artists to create songs that were catchy and appealing to ...

This year, two arena-filling artists returned to the older civic function of song. Bruce Springsteen’s “Streets of Minneapolis” and U2’s elegiac “American Obituary,” written in response to immigration ...

Why, in an era when music's biggest stars are more outspoken than ever, does it feel like we're still waiting for the ...

It's never easy to stop a classic in the wild, but critics were way off the mark when they were presented with these ...

Many country ballads from 1961 feature the polished "Nashville sound," but the rocky reality of heartbreaking love stories remains.

Taylor Swift’s “Opalite” hits No. 1 on both the Pop Airplay and Adult Pop Airplay charts, marking her fifteenth leader on ...

Neil Sedaka, the hit-making singer-songwriter whose boyish soprano and bright melodies made him a top act in the early years of rock ‘n’ roll and led to a second run of success in the 1970s, has died.

Neil Sedaka, who has died aged 86, co-wrote and sang some of the sunniest pop songs of the early 1960s before the Beatles conquered the charts and consigned him to oblivion for almost a decade. But ...

In a past interview, Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page discussed the song his bandmates, especially John Paul Jones, didn't ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Neil Sedaka, the hit-making singer-songwriter whose boyish soprano and bright melodies made him a top act in ...

NEW YORK — Neil Sedaka, the hit-making singer-songwriter whose boyish soprano and bright melodies made him a top act in the early years of rock ‘n’ roll and led to a second run of success in the 1970s ...