Rosalía made an album invoking the saints, Lily Allen took us on a tragicomic trip through her domestic hell, Lady Gaga found ...

Welcome to the last round-up this year. Without further ado, may I draw your attention to the following crop of new ...

Sometimes before a big name musician makes it, they have to pay their dues. These are three icons who sang backup before ...

Recorded by Franklin in New York City in 1967 with members of The Swampers, Aretha’s singing transformed the song, which ...

Funk You Up” had a playful chorus that mimicked a game of musical chairs: “Get up, get up, get up, get up, get up, get up, ...

These one-hit wonders from the 1970s are some of the very best, and anyone who was around back then probably knows every word.

In researching her new Broadway play, Bess Wohl interviewed my mother. After a performance, we all discussed the play and its ...

Googoosh’s love songs are both banned and beloved in her homeland. Her new memoir reveals a life as rich and painful as ...

Written by Peter Green in 1968 about Sandra Elsdon, a former girlfriend he had nicknamed ‘Magic Mamma’, Black Magic Woman is ...

Peter Asher reflects on how he got from Peter and Gordon topping the charts with a Paul McCartney song to producing James ...