It may be a mainstay in setlists these days, but there was a time when Hayley Williams was adamant that she would never ...

Music is a common mnemonic device, which may explain why you remember 1980s song lyrics but not a lick of what you’ve studied ...

David Bowie's Golden Years was originally written for Elvis Presley. It was the lead single for Station to Station.

MTV launched in 1981 with the promise of bringing music to television screens across America, but not every video made the ...

E very generation gets a song that feels like a battle cry, even when it was never meant to be one. In the mid‑1980s, three ...

The Police had their fourth U.K. No. 1 single; 'Faith' went No. 1 in the U.K.; The Rolling Stones went acoustic; Blur put out ...

The year 1981 was a pretty big one for great country tunes and soothing soft rock ballads. The following three songs that dropped in 1981 were quite successful that year, but they’ve somewhat fallen ...

In the late 1960s, Pink Floyd stood at a crossroads.Syd Barrett, the band’s original frontman, was slowly withdrawing from the group, while David Gilmour’s arrival marked the beginning of a new ...