When this song became a worldwide hit in 1984, George Michael was still a young man. He was already famous as one half of Wham!, but...
When Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel recorded this song in 1964, there was no reason to believe they had just created a future classic. They were...
When Van Halen released this song in 1983, fans probably weren’t expecting the band’s next huge hit to be built around a synthesizer. After all, Van...
By the time Fleetwood Mac began working on their next album in 1976, the band had everything they needed to become enormous. They had Mick Fleetwood...
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...