These four songs feature some of the most perfectly written country lyrics of the 20th century. If you're a songwriter, they might just inspire you.

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An unprecedented four-site, dual-cauldron Winter Olympics opening ceremony replete with references to Italian icons and ...

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In the opening title track of their 1984 debut, A Walk Across the Rooftops, the Blue Nile present a bird’s-eye view of their journey. In a stately baritone that occasionally loses its composure as a ...

Few songs merit the term ‘power ballad’ quite as emphatically as Total Eclipse Of The Heart, the 1983 mega-hit for Welsh singer, Bonnie Tyler, which shot to No.1 in the UK, US and all across the world ...

Never-before-seen high-definition footage of an uncontacted Amazonian tribe has surfaced in a recent interview between an American conservationist and podcaster Lex Fridman. Author Paul Rosolie has ...

Since the title song of Prince’s 1984 hit movie was featured in the finale of Netflix’s “Stranger Things” Dec. 31, “Purple Rain” is enjoying another life. The mesmerizing guitar-centric tune has seen ...

Securing the rights to use a song in film or TV is a challenging and expensive task — and the more iconic the song, the more challenging and expensive the clearance is likely to be. So when two of ...

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