Paul McCartney kept going out. That sounds almost ridiculously simple, but it explains a lot about what happened to The Beatles in the middle of the 1960s. While the band was becoming too famous to experience ordinary life easily, McCartney kept looking for ways into it. He went to clubs. He went to galleries. He […]

The song was written after the band was threatened in the Florida because of their long hair.

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Put on “In a Big Country” and one of the first things your ears tell you is that you’re hearing bagpipes. You aren’t. That soaring, unmistakably Scottish sound came from electric guitars, and it became one of the defining tricks of Big Country’s music. Stuart Adamson and Bruce Watson found ways to make their guitars […]

The museum “celebrates the power of visual storytelling.”

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"Ooh, I bet you're wonderin' how I knew, 'Bout your plans to make me blue."🎶

Aretha wrote this song about Dennis Edwards of the Temptations.

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Co-written by a future Vice President, it was the first #1 song by a black performer on the Billboard Hot 100.

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A lot of the songs that I have written about in the past have been covers of relatively unknown, obscure, or unusual originals.

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The song "mixes gospel and soul backings with a quickfire lyric sketching an Englishman’s impressionistic portrait of twentieth-century America."

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Gordy was a songwriter first, and wrote several hit songs before he founded Motown.

Afrobeats didn’t arrive from nowhere. Its roots trace back to Ghana in the early 20th century, where highlife music blended West African folk traditions with Western jazz and calypso. By the late 1950s, Nigerian musician Fela Kuti had picked up that thread and started experimenting further, layering in soul, jazz, R&B and soca. In 1976, […]

"We got it together, didn't we? We've definitely got our thing together, don't we, baby?"🎶

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Before Diana Ross there was Mary Wells.

Al Green didn't want to do the song. It became the biggest hit of his career.

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“One of Music’s Greatest Living Lyrical Poets.”

She wrote several of her most popular songs.

“Oh Pops, come on man. The Lord won’t mind!”

"Veteran music vendors and record distributors give Dinah Washington almost without exception the title of 'Queen of the Juke Boxes.'"

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"So what people don’t know is that Sly basically considered “Dance To The Music,” like, his sellout song."

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Elvis Presley said that this song is the story of his life.

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