After struggling to keep up with Europe for more than a decade, Team USA’s pool team acquired an unlikely star: Russian world ...

Jackie Wilson made his singles chart debut; the Beatles played for the Queen; Johnny Nash saw his way clearly to the top of ...

Today in Music History for Nov. 4: In 1740, English clergyman Augustus Toplady, who wrote the hymn "Rock of Ages," was born. In 1847, composer Felix Mendelssohn died at Leipzig at age 38.

Whoever said you can’t have too much of a good thing clearly wasn’t in Cleveland in 1986. That fall, the city decided to make ...

The Bangles' 1986 hit, "Walk Like an Egyptian", has roots in Egypt, of course, but also (surprisingly) England and a small city in Ohio.