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It's more than Florence Foster Jenkins

The moody, nostalgia-filled soundtrack your life has been waiting for.

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January 20, 2014 was also a good day for charity.

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Florence Foster Jenkins was the William Hung of the 1940s. Only worse.

It was 50 years ago today...

MTV debuted in 1981, but the history of the music video dates back to the late 1800s.

Hint: It's not 'secretary.'

The Big Easy's most notorious killer said he'd spare victims on one condition: that they play jazz music.

Twenty years ago, Kermie channeled his inner Scottish rocker for a once-in-a-lifetime TV performance.

In 1930, Kaikhosru Sorabji's piano composition was thought to be the longest and most difficult piece of solo music ever conceived. Not much has changed.

His first record contract was worth $1.

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After a challenging hike, Katharine Bates penned the patriotic tune.

Andy Warhol did it. Salvador Dalí, too.

A retired Sony exec wanted to listen to opera on international flights, and the Walkman was born.

They may be just as skilled as lead singers, if not more so.

The phrase didn’t originally refer to the group of guys most people think it does—and actually, it wasn’t even a group of all guys.

The number one jam is actually a fairly recent hit.

It pays to be part of a great soundtrack.

Hamilton wrote that "The roaring of the sea and wind, fiery meteors flying about it in the air, the prodigious glare of almost perpetual lightning, the crash of the falling houses, and the ear-piercing shrieks of the distressed, were sufficient to strike astonishment into Angels."

In August 1772, a hurricane ravaged the West Indies—and a young Alexander Hamilton picked up a pen to write about it. The resulting letter inspired Lin-Manuel Miranda to start writing what would become the Broadway musical 'Hamilton.'