The Summer of Love went up in smoke with Altamont, but where did peace and love go in the aftermath? As the 1960s faded into a new decade, the world began to come down from years of war and social ...

All songs are love songs. That is if you believe Charles Darwin’s claim that music, like birdsong, developed as a vehicle for sexual selection (indeed, a good voice and a sexy Les Paul go far). But ...

While we adore Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett's rendition (or even Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong's), we can't stop playing the original hit. The '30s jazz number was specifically written for Astaire ...

In the summer of 1975, a soft rock ballad dominated the charts in both the United States and the U.K. The song was 10cc’s “I’m Not in Love,” written by former Neil Sedaka backup band members Eric ...

While many of the most enduring ballads of our time tell heartbreaking tales, one chart-topping, genre-crossing classic is tragic on a variety of levels that have nothing to do with the subject matter ...

The 1970s. What a decade for music! It was a wild, experimental, and incredibly fertile period that saw genres explode, artists push boundaries, and hit after hit cascade from radios across the globe.

Per Gessle and Marie Fredriksson, a pair of Swedish musicians who were longtime friends and sometime collaborators through the late ’70s and early ’80s, decided to team up as Roxette in 1986. Since ...

Quiz: Can you guess the '70s song from just one lyric? Ah, the 1970s! A decade that truly defined an era, not just with its fashion and cultural shifts, but with an explosion of diverse and ...