Since the 1960s, pop music has gradually become more negative as its lyrics focus increasingly on darker themes, ...

John “Beaky” Diamond, a member of the popular 1960s pop group Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky Mick and Tich, He was 81. While the group ...

Between 1959 and 1964, Midtown Manhattan was the nerve center of the American pop music industry. Inside just a few square blocks near Times Square, the so-called “Brill Building Sound” flourished, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Concetta Rosemarie “Connie Francis” Franconero, July 1959 (PoPsie Randolph/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images) Connie Francis, the ...

A new analysis of hundreds of thousands of English-language hit songs suggests that popular music lyrics have shifted over the past six decades away from themes associated with care and loyalty, and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The harmonies, the California sound, and songs that defined a generation helped this 1960s group be crowned the Best American Band ...

Led Zeppelin‘s Jimmy Page worked as a session musician before his career really took off. He played on one of the biggest pop songs to come out of the British Invasion. During that session, a pop star ...

Marianne Faithfull, the singer and actor who became an icon of London’s music scene in the 1960s, has died, BBC News and The New York Times report. “Marianne passed away peacefully in London today, in ...

1960s pop star Connie Francis has died. The first female singer to chart a No. 1 single on the Billboard Hot 100, she sold over 40 million records before the age of 25. Connie Francis fixes her hair ...