The artist born Prince Rogers Nelson was taking a nap in the back seat of a pink-and-white 1964 Mercury Montclair when the idea for the song that became Little Red Corvette first came to him. It was ...
In 1964, Sam Cooke‘s iconic anthem “A Change Is Gonna Come” became a song of revolution and protest for generations to come.
When Neil Young wrote a song inspired by Charles Manson, it freaked out David Crosby so much that he warned him against doing ...
Composed for a 1932 Soviet movie about industrial quotas, the song was repurposed as leftist French anthem and as a wartime morale-booster ...
Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl recalls the making of their 1991 breakthrough Smells Like Teen Spirit and how the song changed ...
Tunes was the king of digital music before streaming apps made it nearly obsolete. About 11 million people have their reasons ...
In One Battle After Another, a character parrots one of the most recognizable phrases of the last half-century: “the revolution will not be televised,” from ...
A Eurovision-style competition to counter narcocorridos, popular songs that romanticize the drug trade, draws viewers — and ...