Rick Derringer needed a hit to start his solo career. He revisited a song he'd already written and recorded once before to ...

Back in the '80s, Mötley Crüe ruled the world. The hard rock outfit was one of the most successful bands of the era, with their music being inescapable on the charts. Their album "Doctor Feelgood" ...

Exploring the story of the song 'Sorcerer', which Stevie Nicks initially gave away in 1984 to her backing singer before ...

Ringo Starr has enjoyed his share of hit songs the Beatles broke up. Here's a countdown of his 30 best songs, from "Photograph" to now.

Sixty-three years ago, iconic rock and roll band The Rolling Stones released "Come On"—their debut single that remains ...

Everything changed in 2001, not just geopolitics, says Toby Manning. In culture nothing exemplifies this more than Aaliyah's ...

U2 have been known for going outside the norm when it comes to rock songs, but The Edge said the magic of this take could ...

ROCK/BLUES Foreign Tongues by The Rolling Stones; Polydor/Universal. It’s no accident that The Rolling Stones chose to drum up advance buzz for their 25th studio album by seedin ...

There's something about a stellar backup singer's performance that becomes an art unto itself — and some of the artists we ...

From iron-fisted studio dictators to ego-driven visionaries, these 15 leaders proved that rock and roll is rarely a true democracy ...

One day before the United States’ Trump-stained 250 th birthday party, Margo Price has made her own contribution to festivities with an angry, sorrowful and occasionally jubilant set of protest songs.

When you come up with a line like, ‘You’re so vain, you probably think this song is about you,’ there’s a facile, crunchy quality about it,” says Carly Simon, of one of pop’s most famous put-downs.