A 1977 Bowie track found new fame decades later when Stranger Things reintroduced the once-overlooked song to a new ...

For Cale, that town was Tulsa, the Oklahoma city where he was raised in the postwar era. Born John Cale in 1938, the ...

In the book All We Are Saying: The Last Major Interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono, Lennon told writer David Sheff that ...

On Spotify, it has more streams than any Beatles album, Nirvana’s ‘Nevermind,’ Dr. Dre’s ‘The Chronic,’ or anything else from ...

Forty-eight years ago today, Meat Loaf released one of the best-selling albums of all time after being rejected by multiple labels.

Jackie Wilson made his singles chart debut; the Beatles played for the Queen; Johnny Nash saw his way clearly to the top of ...

Apparently, the best dance music has come out of Boston. Donna Summer’s 1977 smash hit “I Feel Love” was named the best dance ...

A song description like the “catchiest of all time” is always going to have a bit of hyperbole behind it, but a 1977 signature song by Queen is one notable exception. From television and film to ...

Bob Marley's music is beloved all over the world, and songs like "I Shot the Sheriff" and "No Woman, No Cry" are among his very best.

Stacker takes a look at Black artists music wouldn't be the same without, from Sister Rosetta Tharpe to Tupac Shakur.

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.

CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as "The ...