Banned songs were a rebellious badge of honour to many, but the first of these tunes to go to number one marked a new era of mainstream popularity.

In the early 60s, Brazil initiated a quiet musical revolution by exporting the silky ... jazz-tinged chords but he rarely wrote his own lyrics. Mostly, Jobim relied on the romantic poetry of ...

Sondheim’s stunning debut came writing the lyrics to Leonard Bernstein’s score for “West Side Story ... descent who had heralded an earlier revolution in the American musical, leading ...

Who knows why a song achieves uncommon popularity in its time, then endures beyond that context to be cherished by ...

Half A Person (Shoplifters Of The World Unite B-side, 1987) Far more enjoyable and considerably shorter than the unwieldy score settling inside 2013's ... with one of his most brilliantly self-aware ...

Christopher Guerrero and Sarah Wiedenheft Get Vocal About ‘Overlord: The Sacred Kingdom’ ...

Excitement is building on London’s theatre circuit as the Marylebone Theatre prepares to present its first-ever musical.

The distinguished English lawyer Fred Weatherly wrote an estimated 3,000 lyrics during a colorful life ... to writing Broadway shows and movie scores. His best-known song remains “White ...

But at times I come in triple. Blaow, blaow put the heater to your head Now your dead. Wyclef don't give a *beep* if your dead.

Mr ‘Folabi Lawal, of blessed memory, told me this fascinating story sometime in 1998. He was the THISDAY bureau chief in Abuja, officially designated as deputy editor, nation’s capital. Mr ...