My heart was beating on the hillside/Near Belvedere and Tiburon/I need to take you back, back down to ‘Frisco,” sings Van ...

Bert Berns, the “Twist and Shout,” “Piece of My Heart” and “Hang On, Sloopy” songwriter who died of heart failure in 1967 at ...

Catchy songs have been around as long as there's been music, but what makes a song stick in our minds is still a mystery. I ...

Bert Berns, the late songwriter whose many hits include “Twist and Shout,” “Piece of My Heart,” “Hang on Sloopy” and “I Want ...

Songwriter and producer Bert Berns has been posthumously inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. Berns, who died in 1967 ...

Facilitated by Irish Artists for Palestine, an alliance of artists raising funds to meet medical and humanitarian needs in ...

If the storytelling in “She Moved Through the Fair” (also known as “She Moves Through the Fair”) is hard to pin down, so too are its origins. The lyrics were first published by the musicologist ...

Pete Ganbarg, SHOF Board Member and Chairman of SHOF Legacy Committee; Berns’ daughter Cassandra Berns; Charlie Feldman, SHOF Board Member; and SHOF inductee Steve Miller. (Photo Credit: Larry Busacca ...

The lineup for The Band's "Last Waltz" included the best of the best, but Levon Helm believed they could have gone without this major artist.

That flexibility proves it is more myth than artifact, more proposition than conclusion. What lingers, finally, is not ...

As they return to Ireland for a pair of sold out gigs, University of Limerick professor Eoin Devereux celebrates the 50th Anniversary of Irish music legends The Boomtown Rats.