1975 arrived just like any other year. But by the time the 12 months of the decade’s middle ended, popular music was moving ...

I could have sworn that the hard rock outfit Mountain had more hits outside of “Mississippi Queen”. My memory must have betrayed me, because that song was technically the American rock band’s only ...

The fickle nature of pop music ensures that even the finest artists only enjoy a finite window of success when it comes to hit singles. Nobody in music history stretched that theory to its limits ...

Everybody knows how George Harrison started the '70s: His seven-times platinum international chart-topping triple album All Things Must Pass reeled off the No. 1 "My Sweet Lord" in the wake of the ...

The 1970s produced some of the most talented, prolific and iconic female vocalists of all time. From once-in-a-lifetime voices like Patti LaBelle and Aretha Franklin to pop culture royalty like Patti ...

John Lennon had a knack for stand-alone Top 40 songs. As the following countdown shows, five of his 14 trips to Billboard’s main singles chart weren’t originally part of any original album. Included ...