Sometimes, ridiculously named songs end up at number one on the top of the charts. Such as the case with these five.
“Burn Hollywood Burn is a protest song,” the hip hop star’s message began. “Extracted from the Watts Rebellion monikered by ...
Some hall-of-fame responses about the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that ...
For instance, we all know and understand what constitutes a good rock song, but who was the first to create one? And, more to the point, can it be attributed to a singular figure, or do genres develop ...
Every Friday, pop critics for The New York Times weigh in on the week’s most notable new tracks. Listen to the Playlist on Spotify here (or find our profile: nytimes) and at Apple Music here, and sign ...
In the early months of 1973, the band that dared to call itself Big Star was anything but. The album of glittering, tightly ...
One of the songs on that breakout album—’Sweet Gene Vincent’—was Dury’s public love letter to the rock ‘n’ roll singer he had adored since his teens. Gene Vincent was one of the early stars of rock ‘n ...
Barchester Hall Park Care Home care home in Bulwell was transformed into Graceland to mark what would have been Elvis Presley ...
Rock Hall chairman John Sykes opened up about why a few artists who've been in the game for quite some time haven't been ...
Ozzy Osbourne’s “Mama, I’m Coming Home” rises to a new all-time peak on Billboard's Hard Rock Digital Song Sales chart, ...
The duo combined country, rock and roll, and pop, and the song tells ... and Anka wrote and arranged the song when he was just 16 years old. The song reached number one on the Billboard charts.
Stewart has been inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame twice—as a solo ... Rod’s version of the song became a No. 1 hit in the U.K., and also reached No. 21 on the Billboard Hot 100.