On December 5, 1976, Bob Marley took the stage at the Smile Jamaica concert—just two days after surviving an assassination attempt. This video explores the political tensions in Jamaica, the CIA’s ...

Long before Bob Marley became a global icon of reggae and resistance, he stepped on to a modest stage in a quiet seaside town in East Sussex. On 16 July 1972, the De La Warr Pavilion in Bexhill hosted ...

But it’s not the only Dylan song that left its mark on the 21st-century music list. “Wagon Wheel,” which landed at No. 216, ...

Max Martin is one of Taylor Swift’s favorite collaborators — as on her soon-to-be blockbuster The Life of a Showgirl, where he and Shellback co-produced and co-wrote the whole album. Martin, the ...

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Before he was an outlaw-country pioneer and a movie star, and after he was a Rhodes scholar and a helicopter pilot for the U.S. Army, the jarringly handsome young man was a janitor in Nashville, for ...

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Billy Joel placed “Vienna” right in the middle of his nine-track album, and indeed, it does feel like a turning point in the record. After seeing how Venetian people treated their older population, ...

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Bob Geldof has hit out at accusations he has a “white saviour complex” due to his charity work in Africa with Live Aid and Band Aid. The 73-year-old Irish musician and activist has found himself ...