Classical Music

Beyond the grave: rock’s 10 greatest posthumous albums make for poignant but essential listening

Careers cut short by illness, overdose, suicide and even murder left achingly affecting unfinished business. Here, we round ...

The biggest rock songs from the 1960s, according to Billboard

Stacker looked at the #1 rock songs of the 1960s using data from the Billboard Hot 100 and MusicBrainz, an open music ...
American Songwriter

On This Day in 2006, We Said Goodbye to the Songwriter Who Penned Five Decades of Hits for Bing Crosby, Merle Haggard, and Roy Orbison

Twenty years ago today, the world lost a prolific songwriter who penned fifty years of timeless hits for a long list of stars.

1976 No. 2 Hit Ranked One of the ‘Top Love Songs of All Time’ Was Initially Rejected By Classic Rock Duo

In 1976, England Dan and John Ford Coley had a hit song with “I’d Really Love to See You Tonight.” The soft rock classic, ...
Parade on MSN

Julia Roberts’ Iconic Rom-Com, Titled After a 1964 No. 1 Hit Track, Released 36 Years Ago

'Pretty Woman' was Julia Roberts' Hollywood breakthrough, and was titled after a chart-topping Roy Orbison track.

Belfast bestseller Cathy Kelly on her love of Nile Rodgers, Jane Austen and sushi, and why there’s no excusing rudeness

David Roy quizzes best-selling Belfast-born author Cathy Kelly about her likes, loves and loathes to mark the publication of her latest novel, The Island Retreat ...