Since the 1960s, pop music has gradually become more negative as its lyrics focus increasingly on darker themes, individualism, and vice, a new study has found. But rather than framing this as a moral ...

These super-cool and mega-famous songs from the 1960s were quite influential in rock, pop, and psychedelia. And if you were a young kid growing up in the 60s, at least one of these songs probably had ...

1960s pop music was such a singular blend of rock, folk, soul, and jazz that few decades can compare, but these contemporary artists make the 2020s come pretty close. From their rich vocal harmonies ...

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 ...

For Baby Boomers, the 1960s and 1970s represented far more than an era of memorable hit singles scattered across radio playlists. This generation witnessed the birth of the album as a cohesive, ...

John “Beaky” Diamond, a member of the popular 1960s pop group Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky Mick and Tich, has died. He was 81. While the group might not be well-known among modern music fans, it was known ...

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 ...

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 ...

Connie Francis, the pop singer known for hit singles like “Pretty Little Baby” and “Everybody’s Somebody’s Fool,” died on Wednesday, July 16. Francis’ publicist, Ron Roberts, announced the musician’s ...