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The Most Influential Beatles Songs

A look at the most enduring songs by the Fab Four by Chris Rowen The Beatles Related Links Biography: The Beatles Beatles by the Numbers Beatles Timeline Most…

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge was famous for dreamy and somewhat creepy poems like The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Christabel and Kubla Khan (the last of which he allegedly wrote subconsciously during a…

W.C. Handy

Name at birth: William Christopher HandyW.C. Handy composed "Memphis Blues," "Hesitating Blues," "St. Louis Blues" and other hits of the early 20th century. His pioneering role in this distinctively…

Lionel Richie

Lionel Richie spent more than a decade as a saxophonist and lead singer with The Commodores, a funk-pop group formed in 1968. Richie grew to become the band's most famous face, a silky crooner and…

Olivia Rodrigo

Olivia Rodrigo’s debut single, “Drivers License” hit the top of the Billboard charts in January of 2021 and stayed there for eight weeks. Before that, Rodrigo was just another of the young actors in…

Ritchie Valens

Name at birth: Richard ValenzuelaRitchie Valens' hit tune "La Bamba" made him America's first Hispanic rock star. He was just a kid of 17 from the Los Angeles suburbs when he released his first hit…

Robin Moore Biography

writerDied: February 19, 2008Best Known as: author of "The French Connection" and "The Green Berets" Deathplace: southwestern Kentucky Robin…

Mary Chapin Carpenter

A Place in the WorldColumbia If following up a commercial and critical breakthrough album like Stones in the Road was daunting, it doesn't show on this collection of 12 appealing and…

9. Pretenders

Viva El AmorWarner Brothers The group's first new studio set since 1994's Last of the Independents is a rock-solid return to form, loaded with first-rate fare such as the harp-wailing taunt “…