Before she became the international pop star behind hits such as “Girls Just Want to Have Fun” and “Time After Time,” Cyndi Lauper was the singer in a band called Blue Angel that brought a distinct ...

The Number Ones is a new column where I’ll review every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart’s beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present. ...

If you sat down next to Harlan Howard in a bar and told him your troubles, his friends said, chances are he’d put those troubles in a song. One day, you’d hear your own woes coming back at you from ...