Arts and Entertainment

Most of Janis Joplin's hits were reworked blues songs, often re-arranged to the point where the original song was barely recognizable. That's pretty much the case with the Bee Gees'…

Maybe the problem with out old, out-of-touch Democrats in Congress is that they've never heard one of the 114 million plays this song has on YouTube, never mind iTunes and…

Phillies centerfielder Odúbel Herrera is lost for the season to a suspension for domestic violence, and his replacement, Andrew McCutchen, tore up his knee. With the team fading fast in…

El Somnambulo speculated on whether, if the Beatles had never existed, James Taylor would have had a recording career, because his first album was released by Apple Records, the Beatles'…

The rom-com "Yesterday" is set in a world in which the Beatles never existed. One of the gags in the film is that, because there were no Beatles, there was…

Though it's not as well known as "My Way" or "New York, New York," most people associate this song with Sinatra. Someone who loved and lost like Frank has a…

Even Joe Walsh fans tend to forget that after he left the James Gang and before he joined the Eagles, Walsh moved from Cleveland to Colorado, where he formed a…

This song has a complicated history because of its use as a rollerball in the culture wars, but it's interesting that the version that became a hit was never planned…

Same 3 songs. Every year. Can't improve on perfection:

This should be the national anthem, and I don't mean just the song itself but this rendition of it. Accept no substitutes. It is no accident that Charles starts with…

"Rocketman," the Elton John biopic/fantasy/jukebox musical, has generated only about one-tenth the box office, and even less of the buzz, of "Bohemian Rhapsody," but it has exceeded analyst expectations and…

I think of this song every time Donald Trump opens his mouth. It's been nine years since CeeLo Green (born Thomas DeCarlo Callaway), along with collaborators including Bruno Mars, wrote…

Another monster month, aided and abetted by some songs I'd missed that made NPR's best songs list for the first half of 2019. I'm cheating on this one, but it's…