Seven Nation Army was so named because the young Jack once misheard the name of the Salvation Army. According to White, the ...

Songwriting is an especially powerful tool used by music therapists. It opens a path to access, verbalize, and express feelings that are otherwise often difficult to process. It harnesses creativity, ...

John Lennon wasn’t always concerned with writing melodies. Despite this, he said two of The Beatles’ songs showed he could write melodies “with the best of them.” One of these tunes was a hit — but ...

A Beatle approved it. The record company hated it. How an existential pop-rock masterpiece turned its creators into unlikely ...

There are many people who sing and write lyrics, but turning those ideas into a song can seem impossible when you don’t play an instrument. It’s by no means impossible, though. There are several ...

By ITZEL LUNA Long before Jessie Reyez was celebrated for her voice, poetry was the Toronto-bred musician’s “first love.” The ...

"Never Too Late" plays over the credits of the documentary of the same name, which streams on Disney+ on Dec. 13. By Mesfin Fekadu After watching an early cut of the documentary Elton John: Never Too ...

Who doesn’t want to write better songs? Whether you’re new to the craft, stuck in a rut of writing the same old stuff, or chasing that feeling that comes after we write a song that is better than ...

In taking on that mission, she went where other lyricists would fear to tread… with the exception, of course, of actual brown dirty cowboy Bernie Taupin, who is credited as a co-writer on the track ...

A bunch of wildly talented Florida boys, including Dickey Betts, the guitar-wielding hellion from Bradenton, formed the Allman Brothers Band in Jacksonville in 1969. They were rock stars in the ’70s, ...