The right ’70s song does more than trigger nostalgia, it feels like it could drop into a 2025 playlist without missing a beat ...
Music has evolved throughout the decades, but even with the current musical climate, no one can deny the impact of the 1970s. Performers of today have revisited this era to not only pay tribute but to ...
Countless incredible songs came out of the 1970s, including these top-selling songs below. Revisit these throwback hits.
Even if you heard these songs from the 1970s multiple times, you might have missed the shocking lyrics hidden within.
Back in 1963, a talented trio of songwriters penned a pop song based on a conversation one of them had heard between a ...
Modern pop songs are more negative than tracks made 50 years ago, a study shows. References to stress and negative sentiment ...
Rhythm and blues is an inclusive term that captures a wide swatch of American popular music that began to infiltrate the mainstream after WWII. It grew out of disparate sources: delta blues, country, ...
The 1970s was a turning point that saw the end of the idealistic ‘60s. Among the major events of the decade were the messy finale of the Vietnam War, Watergate, women’s liberation, the oil crisis, ...
A lot of 1970s music was just good old-fashioned fun, while some of it was disturbing beyond all measure. One 1970s classic rock song tackled a deeply upsetting subject. However, it spoke about a ...
Roberta Flack, a classically trained pianist who taught in the D.C. school system before launching a singing career that made her one of the most popular performers of the 1970s, with such No. 1 hits ...
If you look at the Top 10 songs on the Billboard charts, odds are you’ll find nary a love song. Tracks about heartbreak, friendship and self-empowerment abound, but straightforward ballads about ...
Long before “queer visibility” became part of pop culture’s vocabulary, Leslie Cheung Kwok-wing was living it. In the 1970s and ’80s, as Hong Kong moved between British colonial rule and an uncertain ...