Photo by Gie Knaeps/Getty Images Radiohead is known for being one of the most transformative bands of our time. Still, many casual listeners are like... read more
"Kokomo" gave The Beach Boys their first #1 hit in 22 years. They picked the title because it sounded tropical.
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Long before Ol' Blue Eyes became "The Voice" or married Hollywood starlet Ava Gardner, Sinatra was a scrappy troublemaker growing up in Hoboken, New Jersey. As a teen, he learned music by ear and started singing professionally but, despite becoming a legendary crooner, he never learned how to read music.
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Webb talks about his classic songs "By the Time I Get to Phoenix," "Wichita Lineman" and "MacArthur Park."
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This song starts in Boston with a tea party and takes us to the other end of the American Revolution.
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Do you know who recorded the original versions of these ten hit songs?
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Is "Have You Ever Seen the Rain" about Vietnam? Was John Fogerty really born on a Bayou? It's the CCR edition of Fact or Fiction.
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The scene I see in my dark mind: She's a young (barely legal?), drug-addled, cute, petite, sexy, much-sought-after hipstress. He now realizes that she sees him as just another fawning admirer. Their relationship has crashed out. He is angry and wounded; she, not so much. "Another black cow with something extra, please."...