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English singer Rose Betts explains the story behind her song, "Irish Eyes."

65 years after it was released, Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree has topped the Billboard Hot 100 for the first time. NPR's Scott Detrow talks about it with singer Brenda Lee.

The song "Amazing Grace" was first performed on New Year's Day, 1773, and has gone through many changes over the years.

New Orleans blues legend Walter "Wolfman" Washington died last year before his final album, "Feel So At Home," came out. NPR's Sarah McCammon speaks with his producer, Ben Ellman.

Long before The Backstreet Boys, a vocal sextet in Weimar Germany was silenced because three memebrs were Jewish. A new Broadway musical with a score by Barry Manilow tells their story.

It flies over the audience and flips over — but that's not all that it does.

Audiences may have only just learned about a fast-rising country singer during the Republican debate Wednesday night. But "Rich Men North of Richmond" also has ties to extremist narratives.

With their 1987 debut album Paid in Full, Eric B. & Rakim introduced internal rhyme schemes to rap, and changed the flow of hip-hop forever.

The story behind what's being billed as the last Beatles song, "Now and Then."

Republican Sens. Rick Scott and Ashley Moody joined Democrat Charlie Crist and other officials, Jewish leaders and Holocaust survivors to protest TSA's decision to book the rapper at the publicly owned stadium.