War is hell, and great songs like "Gimme Shelter" and "Alice's Restaurant" bring home that message more successfully than the rest.
Just before World War I, two music students meet in a bar. Both lovers of folk music, though studying at a classical conservatory, they fall in love almost immediately. After the war, the two men ...
Glistening snow, reindeer paws, Grandma's house, and ... the battlefield? Christmas music usually evokes warm memories, wishes for peace and the joy of the season. Yet many of our favorite holiday ...
FILE - College students from various nearby schools march down Commonwealth Avenue in Boston on Oct. 16, 1965 to attend rally on Boston Common protesting U.S. involvement in Vietnam. They're hallmarks ...
Creedence Clearwater Revival frontman John Fogerty performs in 2007 in Los Angeles. (Mark J. Terrill/AP) Editor’s note: April 30, 2025, marks the 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon and the end of ...
If you served in the U.S. military during the Global War on Terrorism, chances are high that there are a handful of battle songs you associate with your service. Whether you went on patrol to Drowning ...
Out of the many Vietnam War protests she performed at in the 1960s and 1970s, Judy Collins can never forget one in Washington, DC, where she stood before thousands and sang Bob Dylan's “Masters of War ...
War, like love, has long inspired artists and musicians. That is especially true of the songs written in response to the Vietnam War during the countercultural movements of the 1960s and ’70s. The ...
War, like love, has long inspired artists and musicians. That is especially true of the songs written in response to the Vietnam War during the countercultural movements of the 1960s and ’70s. The ...