You can’t talk about music from this era without including Little Richard, a famed artist from Macon, Georgia. The track, "Tutti Frutti," was written by Richard and Dorothy LaBostrie and recorded in ...

Richards has described listening to Muddy Waters for the first time as "the most powerful music I had ever heard – the most expressive." Jagger, meanwhile, once said this music "seemed the most real ...

The 1950s brings to mind poodle skirts, sock hops, and drive-in movies. I Love Lucy, The Honeymooners, and Leave It to Beaver were popular television shows, and Marilyn Monroe, Frank Sinatra, and ...

Williams famously had good luck at Nashville’s Castle Studio. The opulent, aptly castle-like studio helped the country singer deliver his first hit, “Move It on Over.” He returned to the studio on ...

It’d be hard to define this Led Zeppelin I closing track as a straight blues number, but for its lyrical content, repetitive infectious bass-line and allusion to the Albert King track "The Hunter," we ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. But, not everyone enjoyed the same freedoms during this era. Many of the songs in the 1950s hinted at the simmering racial tension ...