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11 Famous Works of Art That Were Never Actually Completed
Artists and writers can't always bring their works to grandiose completion. Here are a few that left us hanging.
11 Famous Works of Art That Were Never Actually Completed
Artists and writers can't always being their works to grandiose completion. Here are a few that left us hanging.
How CanCon Created The Guess Who
In 1968, the “Canadian Content” law was enacted: It required every radio station to dedicate 25 percent of each broadcast hour to Canadian content.
7 Experimental Adventures in Classical Music
Some composers play it safe and write music that makes easy listening. Others like testing the limits. Here are some unique experiments in classical music.
The Late Movies: R.I.P., Slim Whitman
The Post-Hit Careers of 5 One-Hit Wonders
Here are five one-hit wonders who deserve to be remembered for their five minutes in the limelight—and what they’ve been up to since.
Why Do Bands Still Perform Encores?
Encores have become concert standard issue. Artists pencil in a big hit or two at the back end of their set list, walk off stage, wait for fans to shout for the encore, act surprised, play aforementioned hit songs in all their encore glory, rinse, repeat.
11 Mellow Artists Who Sold Millions Through Commercials
5 Hit Songs, Translated
When we start singing along to these foreign language earworms, we're probably not singing what we think we're singing. Here are five hit songs in other languages and what the heck they actually mean once they’re translated.
Creating the Windows 95 Startup Sound
11 Museums Devoted to Musicians
Take a look at 11 of our favorite museums devoted to rock groups, classical composers, and more.
15 Things You Might Not Know About Frank Sinatra
Ol’ Blue Eyes, The Voice, The Chairman of the Board: Whatever you want to call him, today marks the 15th anniversary of his passing. In his honor, here are 15 facts that will help the late crooner seem like a bit less of a stranger in the night.
Pop Song Titles are Losing the Love
Love. It's the drug, and a battlefield, and a many splendored thing. It takes time, it will lead you back, and it don't cost a thing. Is there any topic that has inspired more pop songs than love?
The 10 Most Often Butchered Song Lyrics
Elton loves Tony, Sting broke his nose, and other lies music taught us.
15 of the Most Requested Karaoke Songs
Picking the perfect karaoke song can be a tough choice. The song has to be popular enough so people can sing along with you, but easy enough for a karaoke beginner to master. In honor of National Karaoke Week, which kicks off today, here are 15 of the mos
11 Awesome Musical Performances from NBC's Late Night with David Letterman
With recent changes announced in the late night talk show landscape we figured this a good time to look back at what was, and forever will be, the greatest late night program of its kind in this or any other world: NBC's Late Night with David Letterman.
"Song of Bernadette"
One of the great overlooked albums of the 1980s, Famous Blue Raincoat by Jennifer Warnes features the singer covering the songs of Leonard Cohen. Warnes even ended up co-writing one of the album's tracks, based on the life of a modern-day Catholic saint.
Farewell, Jason Molina
"Black Friday"
With songs about everything from flashy drug czars to downtrodden jazz musicians, Steely Dan have always cast their lyrical net far from the usual romantic fare of pop music. On one of the standout tracks from their 1975 album Katy Lied, they dug back to
How Dan Rather and a Homicidal Time Traveler Inspired R.E.M.'s "What's the Frequency, Kenneth?"
It makes sense that R.E.M., a band whose lyrics are often cryptic, would find inspiration for a song in the mysterious circumstances surrounding a physical attack on newsman Dan Rather.
11 Musicians Who Had Hits with Two Bands
"Ruby's Shoes"
When singer-songwriter Lori McKenna’s son was in second grade, he did a book report on Ruby Bridges, the African-American elementary school student who famously crossed the desegregation lines in 1960. To help her son, McKenna came up with a song about Ru
A Song of the South, Born in the North
While “Dixie” (you know, “Oh, I wish I was in the land of cotton/Old times there are not forgotten…”) might seem as inseparable from the South as collard greens and barbecue, the song was actually written in New York by an Ohio native.