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In 1982, The Kinks released a song that sounded almost impossible to be sad. It had a bright melody, a catchy rhythm and the feeling of...
When John Denver recorded this song in 1971, nobody could have known it would eventually become one of the most recognizable sing-alongs in American music. The...
In early 1971, Carole King was in the middle of creating what would become one of the most important albums of her career. She was recording...
He was just a teenager delivering newspapers when he saw the headline. It was February 1959, and Don McLean was working his paper route when he...
For more than four decades, people had the same question: Who was Carly Simon singing about? When Simon released “You’re So Vain” in 1972, the song...
In 1977, David Bowie was living and working in West Berlin, a city divided by one of the most powerful symbols of the Cold War: the...
Some songs are written from imagination. Others come from personal heartbreak. And then there are songs born from something that actually happened—something so tragic that the...
Some songs are invented. Some are inspired by personal experiences. And then there are songs that are basically history set to music. “Smoke on the Water”...
Some songs arrive and immediately become hits. Others have to wait. “She’s Gone” was one of those songs. Today, it’s one of the most recognizable Hall...
Some love songs are written when everything is perfect. This one wasn’t. When Cyndi Lauper and Rob Hyman began writing what would become “Time After Time,”...