A chance meeting of voices and instincts turned Stevie Nicks and Tom Petty’s 1981 duet into one of rock’s most magnetic push-pull performances.
At the Kennedy Center Honors, an unlikely pairing turned “Maybe I’m Amazed” into a moving salute to Paul McCartney’s songwriting, vulnerability and reach across genres.
Cut in a New Haven church basement by four members of the Five Satins in February 1956, Fred Parris’s aching ballad outgrew its modest first run...
Released in 1975, 10cc’s “I’m Not In Love” wrapped emotional panic in an eerily beautiful haze, creating a pop classic whose restraint remains its greatest heartbreak.
Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library began in Sevier County, Tennessee, as a way to mail free books to young children and grew into an international literacy program....
Harry Chapin’s “Cat’s in the Cradle” turned a family poem into a No. 1 hit and, in the process, became one of pop music’s most enduring...
With its conversational lyrics, polished production, and unmistakably grown-up point of view, K.T. Oslin’s “Do Ya” became a defining example of how 1980s country music was...
At the height of Moonlighting, Bruce Willis surprised almost everyone by taking a Staples Singers staple, adding June Pointer’s vocals, and riding a Motown novelty-that-wasn’t into...
Born out of national grief and delivered with startling conviction, “If I Can Dream” became one of Elvis Presley’s most revealing recordings—a plea for hope, dignity,...
Written in the middle of Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks’s unraveling romance, “Go Your Own Way” transformed private heartbreak into one of Fleetwood Mac’s most enduring...