"I've always shied away from doing what I call a preachy song, a protest song, but it seemed to work," said Genesis' Mike Rutherford.
From epic orchestral themes to catchy pop hits, movie soundtracks have given us some of the most iconic songs in music ...
Rock one-hit wonders come and go, but these four hit songs are eternal... and still quite fun to jam out to decades after they were released.
Busy 1986 shopping day ...
Notably, John ties Beyoncé for the ninth-most top 40 Hot 100 hits, dating to the chart’s Aug. 4, 1958, start.
Custom built for live performance, “Death Or Glory” saw Adrian Smith reasserting himself as master of brevity and bombast. Bruce Dickinson’s instruction to “climb like a monkey” never made a great ...
The track, which spent five weeks at No. 1, became the second song to top the weekly Hot 100, after Ricky Nelson’s “Poor Little Fool.” Also in the 1958 year-end issue, Billboard continued ...
There are several songs by British artists that earn their keep in the month of December, despite not getting much airtime ...
When I spoke to Paul Heaton back in September, after he'd performed a 30-minute slot at Preston's Radio 2 in the Park, I could tell he found ...
George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley's festive classic beat songs by Mariah Carey, Gracie Abrams, Tom Grennan and Ariana Grande to top the chart ... he told Smash Hits in 1986.
The best cover versions can truly reinvent a song – sometimes so much so that they become the definitive recordings. For our list of the best cover songs, we’re not just looking at non ...
With ‘Jingle Bell Rock,’ Bobby Helms made one of the all-time great Christmas songs – one that was still ... Helms first appeared in the Billboard Top 100 in 1958 – and was back there ...