"Close To You" was one of the most beloved songs in the '70s. The lyrics depict unrequited love — a longing to be close to someone popular and idolized by others. This song's lyrics have been ...

American Pop Flashback! Great Hits of the '60s & '70s is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, Android TV, Android smartphones, Amazon Fire TV ...

Researchers have discovered that the complexity of the melodies of the most popular songs each year in the US has decreased in the last 70 years. The team, from Queen Mary University of London ...

In the mid-1970s and ‘80s in SoCal, bands like Steely Dan, the Doobie Brothers, and Toto blended jazz, R&B, and pop to create a new soft style: yacht rock.

The late 1970s was one of the wildest eras ever in music, as genres formed and imploded with random, rapid flair. In 1979, "Pop Muzik" seemed to anticipate the decade to come in the way that it melded ...