When Elton John began working on his 1971 album, Madman Across the Water with Bernie Taupin they named the lead single after the Band‘s drummer Levon Helm. Though the song was believed to be ...

Paul McCartney wrote quite a few songs about John Lennon and vice-versa. It makes sense why. The famed Beatles songwriters had a complicated relationship that teetered between brotherly and ...

The gospel of John is dramatically different than the synoptic gospels (Matthew, Mark and Luke). Instead of organizing historical events into a chronology, John presents Jesus in all of his ...

Michael East (3:10) -- Dainty fine bird / Orlando Gibbons (2:00) -- Come again! Sweet love doth now invite / John Dowland (3:27) -- Mother, I will have a husband / Thomas Vautor (1:35) -- Elegiac and ...

During their meteoric rise to rock and roll fame, the band recorded more than 300 songs, and, predictably, not all of them hold the same weight as bonafide Beatles classics. In the years after the ...

Songs, Dances, and Fancies for Shakespeare, comes to us from The Baltimore Consort. The recording explores music by Thomas Morley, John Dowland, and a variety of their lesser-known and anonymous ...

This scary song is based on a true story, too, about 19th century Creole healer, herbalist, and voodoo practitioner Marie Laveau. She’ll stir her witch’s brew and put a spell on you.

Paul McCartney and John Lennon learned to make music together. After they met as teenagers, the pair spent their youth in McCartney’s kitchen, listening to the blues and early rock records they loved ...

John – you had a song in your heart always, and you will always be in our hearts. I miss you already.” ASCAP CEO Elizabeth Matthews added, “John Titta’s warmth, his humor, his kindness ...

When it comes to spies, the most interesting aspect of this section was the fact that John Dowland, one of England’s most revered composers ... He said it affected the way he sang “Flow My Tears,” and ...

November 12, 2024 • We update our running list of the year's best songs with more calming sounds from Sigur Rós frontman Jónsi, the electronic artist Jon Hopkins, Muno singer Katie Gavin's new ...