Below, we're taking a look at 60 Rock Songs Inspired by Books and Literature, for the most part limiting it to one entry per ...

Where are these five one-hit wonders from rock music now? A few of them are still around and jamming in the 2020s.

A look back at the Minnesotan who inspired more than one of his songs and how the state's cold spring inspired another.

Disco classics, patriotic songs and celebrity endorsements featured heavily in the US election. Politicians can use music to ...

For Veterans Day, Mark Farner shares the story of writing Grand Funk Railroad’s breakthrough hit “Closer to Home” and what it ...

For "Saturday Night in New Orleans," Johnson recalls sitting with Hall of Fame songwriter Tony Joe White — known for penning ...

Neil Young’s greatest hits range from “Old Man” to “Heart of Gold”! The Canadian musician got his start in the 1960s and is ...

A song heavy with restlessness, "Urge for Going" was written in the mid-'60s before Mitchell left Canada, and was originally recorded by her friend Tom Rush. It was eventually released as a B-side to ...

Art Garfunkel and Paul Simon reunited in recent weeks, talking on the phone and meeting for lunch, after years of ...

Jack’s first Grammy came in 2013 when his band Fun won both best new artist and best song for their breakout hit We Are Young ...

"Wimoweh" was a Top 10 hit ... songs you've heard. The final song here is one he didn't write — fittingly, it's a folk song, passed down through oral tradition. It's from a concert in Nashville ...

Holly’s recording of Anka’s song “It Doesn’t Matter Anymore” became a hit after Holly died in a plane crash in February 1959 at the age of 22. He appreciates many of his songs that were performed by ...