When rock stars Mick Jagger and David Bowie decided to come together, it was for a good cause—and it turned out to be quite ...

The Grateful Dead earned a reputation as a live band beyond compare. Their studio output is also revered from start to finish ...

When I can’t exactly find the words, I go, ‘Listen to this. This is what I mean,'" Kevin Costner tells American Songwriter about his lyrics.

When it comes to being a pop culture icon in the world of music, songwriting is key. But not far behind is the ability to captivate on stage. Sometimes that comes with singing and oftentimes with ...

Quincy Jones once had to put his foot down with Michael Jackson while producing what would become one of the pop star's ...

Prince's raunchiest songs from his career range from unabashedly taboo to quite sad in their depictions of abuse.

Remember the hair metal craze of the late 1980s? Well, there was a reason each of those bands almost invariably included an earnest ballad on their albums, usually with the intent of releasing it as a ...

Famed soul singer/songwriter Otis Redding once covered “Satisfaction” by The Rolling Stones for the 1965 album Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul. It’s not exactly shocking that his cover is so ...

The Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers album Long After Dark arrived a year after the launch of MTV. The music channel helped the single “You Got Lucky” become a hit in 1982 with a thematic video that ...

Van Halen was a band about to splinter, the differences between its lead singer and its guitarist simply too vast to bridge. Those differences actually helped to make 1984, the album the band released ...

These four famous rock musicians almost died on stage, but miraculously recovered and returned to music soon after.

The departure of two key members of any band would usually signal said band's fortunes were headed for a major downturn. 10cc was faced with just such a crisis prior to the making of their fifth album ...