Sixty years ago today, Johnnie Wright was at No. 1 with a song that would become the theme to an iconic film two decades later.
For Cale, that town was Tulsa, the Oklahoma city where he was raised in the postwar era. Born John Cale in 1938, the ...
Eighty-nine years ago today, a legendary country songwriter and multi-instrumentalist was born in North Carolina.
See the best 1960s music artists, from The Beatles to Motown legends, who shaped a revolutionary decade in music history.
Stacker takes a look at Black artists music wouldn't be the same without, from Sister Rosetta Tharpe to Tupac Shakur.
Banned for decades in the Soviet Union for its dissonance and bawdiness, the opera returns as La Scala’s season opener amid ...
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Today in Music History for Nov. 4: In 1740, English clergyman Augustus Toplady, who wrote the hymn "Rock of Ages," was born. In 1847, composer Felix Mendelssohn died at Leipzig at age 38.
The Trump administration is still not interested in helping the millions of Americans who rely on food stamps.
A new book is shining a spotlight on some of The Beatles’ lesser-known tour stops in the West Country. There's A Place: Beatles in the West Country 1962-64 is written by retired music fan and author ...
Outer Banks Voice  The Liverpool Legends, brought by the Outer Banks Forum for the Lively Arts for a Nov. 1 performance at First Flight High School, come about as close to what the ...
First Steps” and Tracy Morgan returning to TV with a new comedy called “Crutch” are some of the new television, films, music ...
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In 2016, country songwriter Claude (Curly) Putman, who co-wrote (with Bobby Braddock) iconic country songs "He Stopped Loving Her Today" and ''D-I-V-O-R-C-E," died at age 85. He also wrote "The Green, ...