As its title suggests, the concerts will feature songs from Costello's earlier albums, ranging from his 1977 debut My Aim Is True to 1986's Blood & Chocolate, "along with other surprises," a press ...

Legendary composer Alan Menken looks back on his career spanning five decades, from Disney's "The Little Mermaid" to "Tangled ...

Former Guns N’ Roses drummer Steven Adler was one fifth of the band that made one of the greatest debut albums ever: Appetite For Destruction. In 2010, half a decade before he and his estranged ...

Turns out, there are more than a handful of "sad" holiday songs written about the not-so ... the holidays," Weird Al later explained of his 1986 song "Christmas at Ground Zero." ...

Award-winning country icon Dwight Yoakam discusses the importance of his latest album "Brighter Days" in preserving ...

Early in the 1900s, Billboard presented charts detailing the popularity of sheet music in the U.S. In July 1940, Billboard unveiled its first chart ranking the sales of recorded songs, the 10 ...

I am a Southerner and an American, I am a farmer, an engineer, a father and husband, a Christian, a politician and former ...

“Little Shop of Horrors,” 1986 ©Warner Bros/Courtesy Everett Collection ... The fact that I write the songs and I score them creates a genre of work that’s pretty unique.

From epic orchestral themes to catchy pop hits, movie soundtracks have given us some of the most iconic songs in music ...

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 ...

“For any songwriter, it has to be a compliment if people want to hear songs written up to 50 years ... 1977’s ‘My Aim Is True’ to 1986’s ‘Blood & Chocolate’ – while also treating ...