The 1950s. The dawning of a new era in popular music. The birth of rock & roll. James Brown and Chuck Berry. Elvis Presley ...

In a transformative decade for popular music and the birth of the industry as we know it today, the 1950s' longest-held number one may surprise you.

It is hard to pinpoint exactly when the Rock and Roll era began. Music historians have their opinions and weigh in with an ...

The aforementioned songs became actual hits and are still quite recognisable today. But a lot of 1950s mainstream music enjoyed plenty of airplay not because it was particularly good or popular but ...

In the 1950s, 303 researchers travelled through Poland and gathered over 46,000 recordings of folk music. It was one of the largest campaigns of its kind in Poland. It’s 1934. Two young ...

Music brings us life ... He was just about the last living embodiment of dressed-up 1950s cool, expressing himself with elegance and grace but also the sense that he was the hippest dude in ...